Ask HN: Can we please get dark mode?

9 points by captaincrunch 2 years ago | 8 comments

Hard on the eyes at night.

3vidence 2 years ago |

Shout out to my horrible Flutter HN project https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader

I created it for 3 reasons:

1) practice with Flutter

2) I wanted dark mode

3) I was getting really tired of chatGPT posts at the time so I added a topic filter.

I will openly admit it is not nearly as the HN website which IMO is a masterpiece.

If you enjoy hacking your own apps together feel free to fork it and creating your own experience.

P.s.

Really not a plug just thought it was relevant and a bit personally humorous.

guiambros 2 years ago |

Here's my fork [1] of the excellent DarkHacker Chrome extension [2].

[1] https://github.com/guiambros/DarkHacker

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-hacker-news/ib...

mediumsmart 2 years ago |

You can have dark mode in reader mode with Orion on iOS or macOS but you are supposed to sleep at night.

toomuchtodo 2 years ago |

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342085

lobito14 2 years ago |

This dark mode mania is truly annoying. Why can't you people understand that many users cannot read in dark mode?

mrbirddev 2 years ago |

I dont think HN will ever change its styling...

However, try some extensions which gives you dark mode

1. Modern for Hacker News

2. Dark reader

istillwritecode 2 years ago |

Does Firefox send a header to request this?

infotainment 2 years ago | |

No need to -- there's a CSS media query, "prefers-color-scheme", which allows a website to apply styles conditionally depending on whether or not the user is in dark mode.