There is an ongoing gag of using Comic Sans to hassle people that complain about fonts.

This gag rewards people who read more than the first couple of lines before bouncing just because of the ugly font.

Well, browsing with NoScript, I wasn't even aware of this gag until I returned to read HN comments some 20 hours later (as it looks, the Comic Sans is firstly set via JavaScript, along with the subsequent flip back to the 'normal' serif.)

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but even if just an unintentional byproduct - isn't that a nice "additional" reward for people that don't allow running unnecessary scripts on random web sites?

To the point where LibreSSL and other OpenBSD sites use Comic Sans in their 'logos'.

Note The OpenBSD Foundation does not ;^).