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Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by agustif »

alpaca128 wrote: post #283
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many ways for end users to force dark mode without any change on HN. "invert page colors" chrome extension, for example, does a nice job. Not ideal, but good enough. I second the other commenter, don't do anything. Or get someone really good to help you!

I tried various of dark mode plugins in Firefox and none of them seem to be able to do their job without obvious shortcomings. For example most of them don't check the original color of the website and just invert colors of dark pages as well. Or in some cases it doesn't invert all text colors, making hyperlinks hard to read. None of the extensions I've tested can match the dead simple CSS override I used in qutebrow…

Have you tried Dark Reader, I'm pretty happy with it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/darkreader/

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by vnorilo »

graposaymaname wrote: post #231

Hey guys, the "Invert color" option pretty much does the job for me on mobile. Don't know how I can screenshot that, but it basically makes these changes: 1. Title bar remains orange (Strangely, it's not inverted) 2. Text colors which are black become white 3. The background white gets converted to black 4. Everything grey(upvote, points etc.) remains grey. We can try that out on the website using CSS filter no? Some…

The quick-and-dirty light/dark mode flip is to invert and rotate hue by 180deg. However, putting that on taxes most browsers, as they will use an additional buffer to filter pixel data.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by agustif »

tastroder wrote: post #250
sgillen wrote: post #243

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Really? How much karma do you need for that? This is my first time hearing about this.

250 iirc

Daaamn, I'm at 60, so a little over 20%, I will geet probably thhe general dark mode before the customize topbar css feature lol

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by tough »

pwdisswordfish2 wrote: post #306
alpaca128 wrote: post #282

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True, but doesn't this even save bandwidth because it doesn't need to reload the whole page just to update that detail? Either way it still works without JS, which can't be said about most modern websites.

"... which can't be said about most modern websites." While I understand and agree with your point, I have personally found this quoted portion to be a false assumption. To me, "works" means I can retrieve the content of the page without using JS. If the websites we are discussing are ones where the primary purpose is reading, like HN, most will "work" for me without JS, so long as I do not rely on try using a "moder…

Any newspaper website with a paywall or cookiewall or anti-adblock thingy maybe?

That's not much readable without some trickery

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by noisem4ker »

anchpop wrote: post #252
the_pwner224 wrote: post #137

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https://twinkletray.com/ Most desktop monitors have their brightness & other config exposed via the DDC (DDC?) protocol. This is a simple UI that exposes the brightness controls on Windows. Much easier than using the buttons. You might need to go to the monitor's menu and enable DDC if it's disabled by default. On Linux this script works for me: sudo modprobe i2c-dev; sudo ddcutil setvcp 10 $1 &

I can't believe I'm only just now finding out about this. Do you have any idea why this isn't something built into Windows?

Windows has a brightness slider in the side bar, but it doesn't seem to work with external monitors. Probably because OS-level brightness controls were implemented when laptops became popular, and traditional PCs with external monitors became an afterthought.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by [deleted] »

dang wrote: post #32

Ok, you guys, this isn't the first time we've heard this request ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). I'm willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It's just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is outside both my expertise and my interest. We can add CSS to https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css for prefers-color-scheme: dark , bu…

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Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by toyg »

> when I’m browsing HN at night on my phone

If you’re on iOS, get the MiniHack app. I’ve been using it for I-don’t-know-how-many-years and it has a dark mode. It allows me to sign on and comment, thread collapsing etc, so it’s absolutely equivalent to browsers. It’s my daily driver as far as HN is concerned.

(This comment was posted with minihack in dark mode, btw.)

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by noisem4ker »

kleiba wrote: post #285

I must have some condition (other than old age) but I cannot look at dark-themes for more than a few seconds before my eyes start hurting. I switch it to a light theme wherever possible. Yet, I know of the popularity of dark themes. But I wonder if I'm the only one or whether there are more people that experience the same effect? I think it gets worse when I have to switch between mostly-dark content to mostly-light…

I also prefer light themes, and what I hate the most is the switching between light and dark. Even if I preferred dark themes, I would keep it light to avoid the flashes and the text burn-in effect on my retina. I weep when I see my colleagues, who always cheer when an application finally implements dark mode, not realizing they're getting blinded by the brightness of their displays set to the maximum, and not by the white backgrounds.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by pelmo »

dang wrote: post #32

Ok, you guys, this isn't the first time we've heard this request ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). I'm willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It's just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is outside both my expertise and my interest. We can add CSS to https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css for prefers-color-scheme: dark , bu…

What about just grayscale[1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ZfoXaem.png

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Header links: #b5b5b5 Header link divider: #666

+darker icons

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