Right, came here to say the exact same thing. My eyes aren't the best. First thing I did was to open chrome dev tools and fiddle in 'p { color: black }' to make it readable at all for me..
I agree.. HN users are aware of the danger of SOPA. Furthermore- while HN is cool and all its a complete nobody compared to the big services that each average joe knows. Yet exactly those are the ones where blacking out would make any sense at all.
Would be nice to have something at least semi-automatic.
You can import contacts from a yahoo account for example. So if one collected HN users in some public yahoo account it would be easy to add a lot of people in one go.. not fully sure how that should/could be done though. Maybe someone else has another idea.