I find Apple's new map to be strangely blurred and muddy. Some interesting styles at large scales - the pattern on the sea for instance. Very old fashioned-looking.
HN commenting is a bit of a tightrope. I suspect most people are unaware of how straying just a little off the path of acceptability (if I may employ a mixed metaphor) will get you slow-banned/fully hell-banned.
I think this contributes to the tendency for HN commenters to all ape a similar, rather stuffy and perhaps even pompous commenting style - middlebrow content with spray-on erudition.
I have endeavored to reproduce the house style in this comment.