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Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

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Post by w1nst0nsm1th »

ghusto wrote: post #73
Solvency wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fall to sleep. I don't think that's true: https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/ This is a pet peeve of mine precisely because of the first line in that article: > It’s become a virtually unchallenged piece of conventional wisdom that exposure to blue light—the type emitted by electronic device scree…

I read somewhere that blue light theory is a corporate bullshit financed by glasses makers to add 50$ by glass the sell you for a production cost of ) 50 cents.

A little like the 2000kcal by day by the agri-business lobby or the 1,5l of water by the water and soda business lobby.

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

#82

Post by Solvency »

w1nst0nsm1th wrote: post #81
ghusto wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fall to sleep. I don't think that's true: https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/ This is a pet peeve of mine precisely because of the first line in that article: > It’s become a virtually unchallenged piece of conventional wisdom that exposure to blue light—the type emitted by electronic device scree…

I read somewhere that blue light theory is a corporate bullshit financed by glasses makers to add 50$ by glass the sell you for a production cost of ) 50 cents. A little like the 2000kcal by day by the agri-business lobby or the 1,5l of water by the water and soda business lobby.

Weird to exclude the ultimate form of corporate bullshit: vaccine makers (ie: corporations) are federally protected from any and all civil action against them. And they're one of the few drugs that are effectively mandatory for approximately 76 million children. Every single year. A literal money making machine. Protected by law. For the benefit of corporations.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:text=....

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

#83

Post by ajdude »

crazygringo wrote: post #47

Note: extensions don't help for those of us on mobile browsers that don't support extensions. And dark mode is most important/applicable when browsing on your phone before bed. Ideally HN would just follow the user's dark mode OS-wide setting.

I came here to mention this. I access HN via my rss feed on my iPhone and it's always a bit jarring contrasting with the rest of my themes.

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

#84

Post by swifthesitation »

BackBlast wrote: post #75
cuttysnark wrote: post #5

If 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"

That rule set is pretty harsh. Can I recommend: news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black) news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #120F0D) news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: #fafafa) news.ycombinator.com##span.c00:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #ffa000 !important) news.ycombinator.com##sp…

Oh wow, thank you for sharing; this is lovely!

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

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Post by mikewarot »

baq wrote: post #4

Never understood the point of dark modes. Am I too old?

When you get older, and cataracts are a thing... white backgrounds blur and essentially "fill in" dark text, drastically lowering the perceived contrast ratio, and this makes it very hard to read.

The inverse is much easier to read for me.

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

#87

Post by utucuro »

andreynering wrote: post #22

I know you mentioned you don't like extensions, but for those that don't mind Dark Reader is really useful: https://darkreader.org/ I have it setup to enable according to the system. Also, I use the whitelist mode, so I enable on specific websites instead of having it enabled for every one automatically. It's available on mobile via Firefox for Android!

Darkreader seems to always induce a noticeable performance hit on each computer I've ran it on for some reason when I run it with the default settings. I may try your whitelist method instead and give it another chance...

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

#88

Post by UI_at_80x24 »

CharlesW wrote: post #68
UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>using their monitor at a brightness set too high for their environment That's rather dismissive and ablest. I need high contrast. Dark background and bright text allow me to view the content. Screen brightness plays a role here too, but it's used to enhance the contrast, not compete against it.

> I need high contrast. Me too! That's an independent issue, though. Normal HN text has a contrast ratio of 19.34:1, which is great. In contrast (ha ha), greyed-out text has a contrast ratio of 3.54:1, which is terrible. So, HN should definitely fix text/background contrast ratios ASAP, whether or not they add a dark mode.

>So, HN should definitely fix text/background contrast ratios ASAP, whether or not they add a dark mode.

Agreed!

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

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Post by gabrielsroka »

crazygringo wrote: post #47

Note: extensions don't help for those of us on mobile browsers that don't support extensions. And dark mode is most important/applicable when browsing on your phone before bed. Ideally HN would just follow the user's dark mode OS-wide setting.

I use the Chrome and Brave browsers on Android. Both support dark mode just fine. And it's automatic for every website, the site itself doesn't need to support it.

Are you on iOS?

Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

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Post by haldujai »

Solvency wrote: post #82
w1nst0nsm1th wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere that blue light theory is a corporate bullshit financed by glasses makers to add 50$ by glass the sell you for a production cost of ) 50 cents. A little like the 2000kcal by day by the agri-business lobby or the 1,5l of water by the water and soda business lobby.

Weird to exclude the ultimate form of corporate bullshit: vaccine makers (ie: corporations) are federally protected from any and all civil action against them. And they're one of the few drugs that are effectively mandatory for approximately 76 million children. Every single year. A literal money making machine. Protected by law. For the benefit of corporations. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:…

Excuse me? For the benefit of corporations?

Polio used to be a thing in the western world, measles is coming back.

Mandatory childhood vaccines are for the benefit of children and society.

You’re also misrepresenting the NCVIA, the net result is arbitration that is easier to get a payout from as causality does not need to be proven.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_I...

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