18 points herodoturtle 48 minutes ago 22 comments

For the fellow parents, some fun context: My toddler is asleep on me, and this light is blinding.

pelagic_sky 45 minutes ago | parent

I use the HN Enhance extension in FF.

xeonax 43 minutes ago | parent

Darkreader extension in Firefox

stagas 43 minutes ago | parent

Dark Reader extension for Chrome.

farlight 41 minutes ago | parent

On Android, Vivaldi supports dark more out of the box. It's actually just a toggle for the dark mode present on any chromium-based browser, and you can enable it globally in any of them in chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Dark Reader, often recommended, is very slow, especially on old hardware. This built-in mode is much more efficient and works well on vast majority of pages.

gabrielsroka 11 minutes ago | parent

So do Chrome and Brave.

OnionBlender 40 minutes ago | parent

https://hcker.news has multiple dark mode themes.

salvesefu 26 minutes ago | parent

this is dope.

herodoturtle 20 minutes ago | parent

thanks!

tech234a 39 minutes ago | parent

I still remember this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

Uzazo 33 minutes ago | parent

Dark Reader extension in Safari.

avipars 28 minutes ago | parent

VCFundedGenYer 28 minutes ago | parent

Use the firefox extension "Dark Background and Light Text".

viccis 20 minutes ago | parent

Rendello 19 minutes ago | parent

The suggestion has been brought up and dang has commented on it over the years. He doesn't seem opposed to it per se. It's possible your descendants may live to see dark-mode HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062

See also:

dang + "dark mode": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

dang + "on the list" (lol): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

robgough 19 minutes ago | parent

If you're on one of the betas for about-to-be-released apple OS’s, there's a new describe an extension functionality and building a dark mode for HN is exactly what I just used it to do. Super easy, and synced across all my devices.

I know this sounds like an ad, but I was pretty impressed with it

_fw 7 minutes ago | parent

Great idea! I tried this just after reading your comment, 20s later I had a working extension that does exactly this for HN.

Thank you!

Bender 15 minutes ago | parent

In uBlock Origin -> My Filters:

    # HN dark Mode:
    news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black)
    news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important)
    news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #24273a)
    news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: #fafafa)
    news.ycombinator.com##div.c00:style(color: #fafafa !important)
    news.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #ffa000 !important)
    news.ycombinator.com##span#karma:style(color: #faa000 !important)
    news.ycombinator.com##span.pagetop:style(color: #fafafa !important)
    news.ycombinator.com##textarea:style(color: #696969 !important; background: inherit; )
    news.ycombinator.com###hnmain:style(background: #24273a !important)

accrual 14 minutes ago | parent

I am using Stylus and this theme:

    body {
        background-color: #262626 !important;
    }

    body > center > table, input, textarea {
        background-color: #222 !important;
    }

    body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td {
        background-color: #ff6600 !important;
    }

    /* Bright text */
    td.title a:link, span.comment font, span.comment font a:link, u a:link, span.yclinks a:link, body:not([id]),
    td:nth-child(2):not(.subtext) > a:link, input, textarea, p > a, a > u, .c00, .c00 a:link,
    a[href="http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"], a[href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"] {
        color: #ccc !important;
    }

    .admin td {
        color: #aaa !important;
    }

    /* search box and comment box */
    input, textarea {
        border: 1px solid #828282 !important;
    }

samus 14 minutes ago | parent

Stock Dark Reader browser extension works well for me.

marcelo-earth 13 minutes ago | parent

This is the Chrome Extension that I use, I love it because it has a Safari version that you can use on your iPhone:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-dark-mode/abpjfl...

Metricon 10 minutes ago | parent

I use the "Comments Owl for Hacker News" Firefox extension - https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news

It has a "Dark Mode" under options, plus it allows you to revisit a thread later and know which comments are new.