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.
Dark Reader's slowness primarily stems from its auto-detection of pages that need darkening. If you turn that off and manually enable it on pages that need it, it doesn't feel any slower than anything else
I used "Override colors" under Settings -> Accessibility to set nice dark colors.
Then I used userChrome.js from https://github.com/AlexVallat/firefox-scripts/ to add a button which toggles the browser preferences "browser.display.use_system_colors" and "browser.display.document_color_use", so I can still access bright mode if needed.
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:
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
In uBlock Origin -> My Filters:
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.
Dark Reader's slowness primarily stems from its auto-detection of pages that need darkening. If you turn that off and manually enable it on pages that need it, it doesn't feel any slower than anything else
That flag doesn't seem to work for me in android chrome or brave, when enabled HN is still very much light mode
So do Chrome and Brave.
I am using Stylus and this theme:
I used "Override colors" under Settings -> Accessibility to set nice dark colors.
Then I used userChrome.js from https://github.com/AlexVallat/firefox-scripts/ to add a button which toggles the browser preferences "browser.display.use_system_colors" and "browser.display.document_color_use", so I can still access bright mode if needed.
On Safari I use https://getnoir.app/.
Firefox desktop and mobile let you install addons like https://darkreader.org/ which work great.
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.
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...
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...
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
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!
Stock Dark Reader browser extension works well for me.
Dark Reader extension for Chrome.
Darkreader extension in Firefox
iOS accessibility shortcut: 3 taps on sleep button inverts the colors of any website, if you set it up.
I still remember this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
Very beta: https://adhn.netlify.app/
Use the firefox extension "Dark Background and Light Text".
https://hcker.news has multiple dark mode themes.
this is dope.
thanks!
https://uso.kkx.one/style/92693
Use it with Stylus
Dark Reader extension in Safari.
I use the HN Enhance extension in FF.
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