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I use a Firefox browser extension called "Dark Reader" [1] to force a dark mode on most of the websites I frequent and I'm more or less happy with it. If there was an extension that Solarized them instead, I'd probably go with that instead. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader
You can go to color options in darkreader and set solarized as the theme.
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Almost everything has a dark theme for me, including HN - sites I use regularly which don't have their own dark themes will get overridden with Minimalist.
How does HN have a dark theme? I suppose one's browser sends their light/dark preferences or websites send alternate stylesheets? How does one set it in Chrome? chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark didn't work for me. What's Minimalist? Whenever I saw anyone attempting to have everything dark, half the things looked awful, the dark theme was not even an afterthought...
Stylus is here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
You can find themes to suit you here: https://uso.kkx.one/browse/styles?search=Hackernews (or search for any other site you might want to alter)
> Whenever I saw anyone attempting to have everything dark, half the things looked awful, the dark theme was not even an afterthought...
That's exactly why you pretty much need an extension like Stylus or Minimalist to get proper themes made by people who cares what the sites end up looking like.
I credit Solarized with setting the baseline allowing proper "dark" themes to be more commonplace. I'm going out on a limb, but perhaps macOS' Dark Mode, or VSCode's dark mode, wouldn't exist without Solarized blazing that path. It's kinda funny how, before Solarized, I would see tons of gimmicky themes like some that were going for a Matrix or "classic terminal" feel, going all in on a certain theme but eschewing re…
> I credit Solarized with setting the baseline allowing proper "dark" themes to be more commonplace. Apart from the IBM 3279 color terminal, released in 1974, and literally hundreds of devices following (and maybe preceding) that.
Developer of Solarized here. Glad that it continues to be a popular design. I've let the github languish and regret that. Luckily since it's just a color scheme the website and info on github has been enough for it to continue to propagate. There have been plenty of other color schemes that I think it's safe to say have been inspired by Solarized and this is very satisfying to see. Many of them have done a better job…
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How does HN have a dark theme? I suppose one's browser sends their light/dark preferences or websites send alternate stylesheets? How does one set it in Chrome? chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark didn't work for me. What's Minimalist? Whenever I saw anyone attempting to have everything dark, half the things looked awful, the dark theme was not even an afterthought...
HN does not itself have one, that's the point of the Minimalist mention. It's an extension that lets you override parts of any website. On looking at what is actually active for me on HN, it's actually another extension I use, named Stylus, (which does much of the same thing, but Stylus is focused on just the CSS while Minimalist also lets people provide modules which provides a list of options to turn on/off) which…
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Wow so interesting! I have a very high astigmatism so this makes a lot of sense! I wonder if it would help to wear glasses that correct. I wear my contacts and they really aren't capable of correct astigmatism the way glasses are.
A comment elsewhere in the thread explains the mechanism of why light background results in better eye focus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403128 Probably relevant with astigmatism, since tighter focus should at least somewhat alleviate the shifty out-of-place edges (hopefully).