Dunno if it's perfect but ironically, the minimalism is really nice compared to reddit's. New Reddit is obnoxious and Old Reddit's various elements eventually collapse on each other and make it an unreadable mess.
Well it depends strongly on the person. I'm sure many people would hate Hacker News' layout. But for me it is perfect. In fact I've built some custom CSS to replicate the same for other sites as well.
