alt Hacker News> I’d say perhaps once per day I’ll encounter a website that has never had zoom in/out (ctl +/-) tested because if you zoom up even one level from 100%, everything breaks
Just tested, hn breaks if you zoom >110%.
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cestith • today at 1:21 PM
Which platform is this on? I usually read hn on a desktop browser, and it works fine well above 110% there.
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jabroni_salad • today at 2:33 PM
I browse everything at 125% and HN is fine on my machine so I decided to check. It depends on your width.
1080px wide (aka on my vertical monitor) HN comments stop reflowing > 300%
At 1920px wide it never stops reflowing.
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How does it break for you? Seems OK to me on android — in fact, I already had it at 110%. Reminded me to check my desktop settings which have HN fixed at 125%. I cannot believe that, in 2026, the default font size is set at 12px — is anyone actually reading it at that size?!