Yes, it would be really hard. For as much as I love HN, I think it does not stand to the standards of what it is: a meeting place for hackers.
When we work on the web, we focus on being semantic, conscious about the actual web in which one size does not fit all, usability and design. None of which HN has: tables, it doesn't work on mobile (and the links on the submission aren't clickable) and you can't undo your vote. I understand another hacker value is protoyping and MVP-thinking, but when you have a vibrant community a few years old, that's not the case.
Maybe the hacker thinking on HN is doing it yourself, maybe you can come up with a browser extension that fixes this stuff.
In the meanwhile, you can use ihackernews.com for when you're on the go.
On the DIY note, it would be pretty trivial to create a personalized version of Hacker News using Moovweb. Move a little HTML around, add your own CSS, bam -> mobilized hacker news to your customization.
HN looks like it was hacked overnight which makes its design perfectly adequate for a community of hacker...
Something becomes a standard when used by the majority. In this case it would be reasonable to make HN's unpolished design the standard for communities of hackers...
When we work on the web, we focus on being semantic, conscious about the actual web in which one size does not fit all, usability and design. None of which HN has: tables, it doesn't work on mobile (and the links on the submission aren't clickable) and you can't undo your vote. I understand another hacker value is protoyping and MVP-thinking, but when you have a vibrant community a few years old, that's not the case.
Maybe the hacker thinking on HN is doing it yourself, maybe you can come up with a browser extension that fixes this stuff.
In the meanwhile, you can use ihackernews.com for when you're on the go.