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Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by jacoblambda on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:01AM (#23201092)
There's a very solid Stylus theme for HN that I've been using as long as I can remember. Until just now I had honestly forgotten that this wasn't what HN looked like by default.

https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by dorgo on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:11AM (#23203508)
Upvote and downvote buttons become invisible.

Edit: my fault. I have too many dark mode addons/stylesheets enabled at the same time.

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by retpirato on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:05AM (#23211157)
There are 2 HN dark themes available at https://github.com/UserStyles.

Midnight lizard (chrome) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/midnight-lizard/pb... is a good extension that can create a dark theme by changing the contrast & things like that. It does it in a way that the same theme will work on a lot of sites. They do have more dark (& light) themes on their site & you can create your own by entering a few colors & it will create a theme based on that. Stylus is good (NOT stylish), but Midnight lizard creates themes in a way that are compatible with a lot more sites that Stylus.

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by jacoblambda on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:05PM (#23214929)
I just tried out Midnight Lizard. It works surprisingly well but I can see myself wasting hours fighting with it trying to get it tuned perfectly.
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by retpirato on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:09AM (#23211172)
Is there a non userstyles.org link for this? I've blocked cookies on userstyles.org (For obvious reasons) & when you black cookies on that site it gives you a blank page. If you enable cookies it comes back.
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by jacoblambda on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:49PM (#23214782)
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by throwaway_pdp09 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:16AM (#23201824)
Doesn't work without JS.
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? by jacoblambda on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:10AM (#23203093)
hmm. I just tried turning off JS and reloaded Firefox. Everything seems to still work fine on HN with the theme on. I don't know much about web dev so I'm not sure what could be causing it.