Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?
I'm a parent with my toddler asleep on me, and the bright screen is blinding. I need a way to browse Hacker News in dark mode. Does anyone have suggestions?
On Android, Vivaldi supports dark mode 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.
https://hcker.news has multiple dark mode themes.
Dark Reader extension for Chrome.
Darkreader extension in Firefox
I use the HN Enhance extension in FF.
- Bender
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)
- farlight
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.
- WithinReason
Save this in a bookmarklet and click it to turn any website dark:
javascript:(function(){const id='_dark_mode_bm';const el=document.getElementById(id);if(el){el.remove();}else{const s=document.createElement('style');s.id=id;s.textContent='html{filter:invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg)!important;background:#fff!important;}img,video,canvas,picture,svg{filter:invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg)!important;}';document.head.appendChild(s);}})();
faster version:
javascript:(function(){const id='_dark_perf_bm';const el=document.getElementById(id);if(el){el.remove();}else{const s=document.createElement('style');s.id=id;s.textContent=':root{color-scheme:dark!important;}html,body{background-color:#141414!important;color:#dcdcdc!important;}div,section,article,nav,header,footer,aside,main,table,tr,td,th,ul,ol,li{background-color:#18191a!important;color:#dcdcdc!important;border-color:#383838!important;}p,span,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,b,strong,i,em{color:inherit!important;}a,a%20*{color:#58a6ff!important;}pre,code,kbd{background-color:#202224!important;color:#ff9857!important;}input,textarea,select,button{background-color:#262626!important;color:#fff!important;border:1px%20solid%20#444!important;}img,video,canvas,picture{background-color:transparent!important;}';document.head.appendChild(s);}})();
- accrual
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;
}
- Meneth
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.