I switched back to the "2010" theme, hopefully people will have a better reading experience now. Thanks for letting me know (letting me know in private without the snark would have been better, but beggars can't be choosers, so I'll take what I can get).

What does HN have to do with the theme of this guy's blog?

If you're struggling to read it, try https://www.readability.com/shorten

Agreed, the font is very light weight. The way it renders on my screen (Macbook Air) gives me a headache.

I'm glad it's not just me. looks like he changed it to something else

The difference between this font color and #000 is actually really really minor at a larger scale. The issue tends to be exacerbated by smaller print.

I don't bother reading it from the source, push it to pocket, and off I go with their stylish style :)

It's just a common Wordpress theme:

https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/