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Re: Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News

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There are browser extensions and userscripts to do this.

Like https://darkreader.org/ that costs?

Dark Reader is free and open source software, always has been. That price on the main page is just for a voluntary donation if you so desire.

The free download buttons are in the middle of the page. There are also multiple links to the source code at the bottom.

Re: Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News

#12
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or tampermonkey and 2 minutes of writing CSS overrides. What, you people are hackers, aren't you?

So writing CSS overrides for every site I consume sounds healthy and fair to you?

I don't think they meant that it would be needed to make new overrides for every site typically. Dark Reader extension works fine with 99% of sites out of the box and is free.

Re: Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like https://darkreader.org/ that costs?

Dark Reader is free and open source software, always has been. That price on the main page is just for a voluntary donation if you so desire. The free download buttons are in the middle of the page. There are also multiple links to the source code at the bottom.

Not true. You must install from the AppStore and it charges you.

Re: Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News

#19

It would be really appreciated for you guys to consider adding a dark theme for HackerNews. The reasons, well, could be added as comments here in the thread. Though, as you may imagine, it's mostly because of my eyes when I visit you guys without daylight.

Have people complaining of eyestrain from "light mode" considered checking their display brightness? Displays should match the brightness of their backgrounds, or in general somewhere around 100–150 cd/m² (aka 100–150 nits). Most monitors are capable of going much brighter than this, and really should not be used that way, because it tends to... cause eyestrain.
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