alt Hacker NewsHacker News itself is a prime example of a website that doesn’t support dark mode, but could do so trivially (and, IMO, would look so much better if it did!)
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There is no downside to having prefers-color-scheme media query set up, even for HN. Too bad still roughly 1 in 4 popular websites support it.
there are a lot of design choices which Hacker News does not support ;)
The only chrome extension I have is to make hackernews support dark mode. Love having it
I do appreciate how minimalist hackernews tries to be, but I think respecting the operating system's theme can be considered very minimalist
I use Stylus to apply a dark theme to HN, and much prefer it. https://i.imgur.com/USbXXEK.png
Not sure if you would like my dark mode modifications to HN, but here are my CSS[1] and JS[2] modifications.
Javascript: https://pastebin.com/50EUfktL CSS: https://pastebin.com/nzEhxxBY
Dark mode and some small improvements for mobile usage would be amazing and don't seem at all hard. It's pretty amazing HN hasn't implemented them.
This feature works well on Hacker News, just trying it on the beta.
If anyone here is open to using the Stylus extension, I've re-shared a dark theme for Hacker News recently and it's been lovely. [0]
No thanks. When you are my age you will understand.
I have no idea why all the fucking vibed websites that swank around the web these days are unable to do a simple thing:
* Have one or more "themes" with dark and light variants
* Query the browser for a preference of light or dark and offer the default theme with the probed variant.
It's 2026 FFS. Why on earth is this even being discussed as an issue? We have all these cool vibed efforts that can't even be bothered with simple basics.
I use a chrome plugin precisely for this and I can confirm - my eyes hurt less
They’re now formally interested in doing one but, I imagine, not very urgently relative to flag reasons and other stuff.
https://hcker.news was originally made so i didnt solar flash my kid in bed while they were sleeping
it now has many dark themes, bloomberg is my favorite.
I got neurological lyme disease a few years ago. Anything with a white background was like a VGA cable being half plugged in.
The fact that this website wasn’t capable of dark mode made me create a CSS overlay on desktop.
I am back to somewhat normal now with my eyes, but I feel really bad for anyone in the same position.
I know that the current exact HN is magic, but come on. There is CSS to detect the system’s theme. There is no need to create a button or anything.
Please no. Dark mode is extremely difficult to read for me.
My HN is in dark mode, though the honors for that accomplishment go to the duckduck browser. Been reading HN on dark mode a while now (light mode burns me eyes, only way to use HN for me now is with the Duck)
P.S. the Duck browser literally has a universal dark mode setting, I don't recall a site it wasn't able to dark-force darkify for me (language is fun)