Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

A little CSS to support dark mode and increase the text size. It's pretty basic and could be improved.

:root { color-scheme: light dark; }

* { background-color: revert !important; color: revert !important; font-size: revert !important; }

center { text-align: left !important; }

table#hnmain { width: 100% !important; }

A different take, but I use Freedom.io to block social media sites except for short periods during the day...it helps me both reclaim time that I would otherwise spend endlessly scrolling through garbage, and it makes the less frequent visits to HN more fruitful because everything is new.

Dark Reader on desktop, the HACK app on iOS.

https://hackerer.news viewer that shows stories by day so I don't see yesterday's stories today interleaved with today's and avoid the slot machine dopamine hits.

It was originally written so that I could load all the titles and open tabs in the subway that would render when there was service at stops. Now wfh but still useful.

[0] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news

Every time I try to leave HN for some other front-end, there are subtle design features I miss. Every button on HN has a purpose, is easily accessible, and works as expected.

There’s a quote that good design is not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing to take away. HN follows this perfectly. Sure, I could have dark mode, previews, and notifications, but I’d lose elsewhere unless I built my own front-end.