I find the favicons needlessly distracting and unhelpful. I suspect we probably use different parts of the brain for processing images and text, so it's a lot of different information at once.
My main gripes with HN UI are the expand/collapse and voting buttons are tiny on mobile. And it's very easy to accidentally hide an article by accident (it's a hassle to undo this).
Bit of context, the gov announced a series of "anti-blocker" amendments to the planning bill last night, which is theoretically designed to address issues on large infrastructure schemes like this.
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