I feel like this unicode approach may be a better fit for how the rest of Hacker News is constructed (e.g. the use of the pipe character).

At least for me those are different sizes.

Same here, something funky going on with unicode triangles?

Which browser? So far, everything seems fine in Firefox, Chromium, and Nyxt, which uses WebKit.

Looks fine on Edge/Windows too.

Safari and Chrome

Safari 14