A css fix would prevent this.

Also make the damn upvote buttons bigger on mobile.

It automatically hyphenates on Firefox mobile, must be a safari issue.

This is an iOS 26 regression. There are a bunch of soft hyphens in there, which is why it works on other browsers and in previous versions of iOS.

I was wondering what’s wrong with the HN site on mobile today. I thought something from my other safari settings carried over thinking is this another macOS / iOS problem. Good to know this time Apple is not to blame. Interesting psychology here how easy it was for me to go there.

Have you checked out Harmonic? It's an amazing Hacker News android client!

Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.

Can someone fix this? I don’t believe it is the first time

Not on Chrome or Firefox for me. So I assume you are using Safari.

The long words must continue until word wrap increases.