Super cool! I did this same thing use cloudflare to change the CSS on the fly.
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#42I 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.
Dark Reader is great if you do not care about performance.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I tried it a while back in Firefox and after a a few days I noticed memory usage in Firefox was going way up and whenever I opened dev tools everthing would slow down drastically. Removed the addon and everything went back to normal. Anyone getting these types of issues still? I would love to start using it again.
I'm a happy Dark Reader user. The issue you experienced could be related to which type of ‘filter’ you used. The four different kinds, Filter, Filter+, Static and Dynamic approach re-theming in different ways that varies in resource use[1].
For example, Filter ”requires GPU resources”, while Filter+ “works poorly in Firefox”. Dynamic pays up-front on first pageload, but subsequent pageloads should be lean.
[1]: Theme generation modes, https://darkreader.org/help/en/#filter-settings
Re: Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News
#44Missed opportunity for "darkernews"
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I find it offensive there's no dark mode. It's discrimination against people with a vision disability. It's a small and insignificant change on their part, could be made in 5 mins.
I know "could be made in 5 mins" is an exaggeration, but there's a very real long-term cost to adding thematic options like dark mode that HN just might not want to take on. Any time you split your UI (for example, light mode and dark mode), it effectively doubles/multiplies all future UI testing you do from then on out (testing all new views/features on both light and dark mode). It can also add additional strain on…
> it effectively doubles/multiplies all future UI testing you do from then on out
I agree it takes more time but isn't double an exaggeration? New features would presumably reuse light/dark UI components you've already tested. And are they really that likely to behave unexpectedly?
It's funny how developers will boast "it'll only take 5 mins" when they're not the ones having to code it though.
Re: Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News
#46I 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. The rendering is a bit slower at times, but I actually prefer it over Safari now. Apple should really consider this option.
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#47This looks really good.
Re: Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News
#48I 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/
Here is mine: https://gist.github.com/jay-m-z/29c145ccd21f2b70f3cafd56c6cf... Looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/d7PSU96 Based upon: https://userstyles.org/styles/166661/orb-s-dark-hacker-news-... with bunch of my own adjustments and improvements
Cool browser!
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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://…
> prefers-color-scheme: dark
How do I convince my browser (firefox, typically) to set this? Is there a way to toggle it on and off?
Re: Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News
#50Shameless 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
From all those addons and mods I've seen for this page, this is really the best one. Thank you.
I have one minor issue though: the top bar (with new threads past etc.) is white with the text almost white too. Makes it unreadable. I'm not sure if this is somehow my fault or if it comes from the addon: https://i.imgur.com/DPEn3b6.jpeg
I have dark mode on.