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This looks like garbage on narrow screens (mobile).



Yes, and if you're able to use HTML tables then you should. HackerNews implements a particularly spartan flavour of MarkDown, so the 'ASCII art' approach is the only one available here.

This is similar to how pre-wrapped text often looks terrible on mobile. This is an issue with plaintext email, for instance. [0]

[0] https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/public-inbox/%3C87wo85l3c5.fsf...




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