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Latchkey, would you be comfortable with HN adopting your dark mode styling as a user choice someday, if they came around to liking it? I really like it and I think it’s in the spirit of the site.
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For those that prefer userstyles, I made a dark theme a while ago https://github.com/andrecarini/hn-dark-mode/blob/main/hn-dar...

Tom (the moderator) said he was looking into getting it appended to the HN's CSS. I haven't asked them about it since ages ago, wonder if they dropped the idea.


I'm pretty sure that will never happen, as it would've happened already by now. People can and do already use custom CSS or Dark Reader for dark mode.

Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened

dang, i pitched this on reddit like 20 years ago. I've always wanted to know what putting the new page on the front page would do to content quality. Something like this https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/

Dang your comment excites me to think that Hackernews can have dark mode in future.

Aside from all of this AI hype, This is the feature I am most excited about xD!

Dang, genuine question but when you moderate/view Hackernews yourself, I suppose that you must yourself be using dark mode too correct? or do you view hackernews in light-mode?


Although I did just confess* to enjoying accoutrements which for years have been selfishly withheld from others (bare-bones UI for thee but not for me), dark mode is not one of them.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183


Out of interest, why do you suppose that?

It does not work in embedded browsers inside RSS readers

custom CSS is the way. I don't believe HN will ever adopt dark mode. But the site is so stripped down it's easy to write custom dark mode for it.

Stylus is great for this kind of thing - it's basically Tampermonkey but for site-level CSS overrides.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/



Or you can just use my extension, heh.

That would be great! Please do.

Thanks! A lot of it is AI with my own input, but I think it did a great job.

The code is all open source and people can do with it what they want. It is GPLv3, but I'd special license it to them as MIT without question.


Ah, oh well. Thanks!

Well, if it's AI-generated, it's not really copyrighted by you and you cannot license it under GPL, since you did not write it.

Nice work, nevertheless, and useful!


I mean, it's a color scheme. With like 5 colors. So good luck getting it copyrighted anyway.

It is AI assisted. I still wrote code and designed the core architecture of how it works.



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