an alternative i recommend is the Dark Reader extension that makes all my websites dark mode in general.
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#13I use Stylus and this stylesheet: https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news
Works great for me. I use dark themes via Stylus for most of the common websites I visit like HN, GitHub, StackOverflow, etc. All other websites that cause me to squint I just toggle Dark Reader: https://darkreader.org/
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#14On my desktop Chrome, I use "HN Enhance" extension. It works pretty good.
Reading the comments here, a lot of people use various extensions to achieve dark mode, so maybe it is time that HN implements this natively.
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#15I use Stylus and this stylesheet: https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news Works great for me. I use dark themes via Stylus for most of the common websites I visit like HN, GitHub, StackOverflow, etc. All other websites that cause me to squint I just toggle Dark Reader: https://darkreader.org/
Dark reader works unreasonably well.it has done more than any other project to restore some degree of visual consistency to our computer screens in the age of web apps.
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#16I switched to Firefox on iOS because it has a simple toggle to change all sites to dark mode. I can’t imagine going back to Safari without this feature.
Same here. It's definitely not as intelligent as extensions on desktop browser, but it's suitable in a pinch.
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#17Would love to see this available natively here on HN. The last dark mode request thread I recall garnered 780 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
As cool as new features would be, I sort of love the HN approach to feature creep (or even just feature addition, as distinct from "creep"). It's such a welcome change compared to other websites and apps.
I, too, appreciate HN's reluctance to add new features, and have zealously followed the same approach in maintaining my own tiny corner of the web for two decades.
But dark mode offers such immense retinal relief that a few lines of CSS¹ does not seem too unreasonable, especially since it means not having to trust third party extensions to do the job (though Firefox supports site-specific CSS rules natively: https://superuser.com/a/319322/38084 ).
¹ I arrived at these few lines for my simple site:
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {background: #222b39;color: #e1dfdc}
input,textarea {background: #333;color: #e1dfdc;border: 1px solid white}}
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#18Great coloring I really like it :-D
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#19Shameless self-plug: I built Refined Hacker News[0], a browser extension, that allows one to set custom CSS and has a default preset for dark-mode :). [0]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
Easily one of the best add-ons I've installed. Thanks.
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#20Try to read HN in Firefox on iOS, on an iPad 12’9.
It’s impossible to read due to the tiny text size. You can’t zoom text in Firefox-iOS either… combined with no dark mode it’s a terrible user experience.