This is a reason third-party apps are useful. I use a random app I got off f-droid and it has a dark mode.
Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
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#12I understand not trusting random developer, which means your only option is to create your own extension. Shouldn't be that hard, considering the scope of what's needed.
Provided you're a web developer, of course.
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#13Never understood the point of dark modes. Am I too old?
I like to read HN in the evening to unwind.
A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fall to sleep.
Dimming your phone brightness does not help sufficiently at all. In a dark room it's still like a relative flashlight in your eyes.
This should not be such a head scratcher to understand.
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#14If you're using ublock origin, I have these filters which I copied from another HN comment once upon a time. news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg)) news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white) news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: black) news.ycombinator.com###hnmain td[bgcolor="#000000"] edit: "rules" -> "filters"
I’m an embedded dev, so websites and web tech are a black box to me… I’ve never asked, does the ## mean “overwrite” as uBlock DSL?
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#15Never understood the point of dark modes. Am I too old?
Maybe not old enough? ;-)
I use to prefer light mode exclusively, but my eyes feel more comfortable with dark mode as I get older.
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#16If you don’t mind using an alternative front-end, I’ve built an open source one[0] that supports dark mode and some other things I was missing when using HN on larger screens
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#17Just use a userstyle?
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#18Dark Reader has a sepia-mode as well as night-mode. I remember reading some pg essay about how he patched a customer's issue with lisp while the customer was still on the phone... but still no night-mode after 10 years of begging, oh well, first world problems I guess.
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#19My favorite HN dark theme doesn't seem to be available any longer in its original form, but luckily I was able to save it.