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A true hacker would be reading Hacker News in Emacs on a monochrome 80 column CRT monitor. A true hacker cares only for the purity of information, not the vulga

• foobarbaz33 2y ago
  I sometimes read hacker news with Emacs eww. An easy way to get dark mode. In Emacs-eww, the nested replies are rendered flat, not indented, but you can set up a search on the "parent" hyperlinks. then search forward to move down the comment tree, or click the hyperlink to jump backup the tree. When viewing in a modern browser a bit of javascript can make HN dark. (function hackerNewsDarkMode() { let bg = '#35352B'; let fg = '#EEEED1'; let tables = document.getElementsByTagName('table'); for (let i=0; i<tables.length; i += 1) { tables[i].style.backgroundColor = bg; tables[i].style.color = fg; } let codes = document.getElementsByTagName('code'); for (let i=0; i<codes.length; i += 1) { codes[i].style.backgroundColor = '#300000'; codes[i].style.color = '#FF0000'; } let spans = document.getElementsByTagName('span'); for (let i=0; i<spans.length; i += 1) { spans[i].style.backgroundColor = bg; spans[i].style.color = fg; } let a = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (let i=0; i<a.length; i += 1) { a[i].style.backgroundColor = bg; a[i].style.color = '#66CDAA'; } let divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); for (let i=0; i<divs.length; i += 1) { divs[i].style.backgroundColor = bg; divs[i].style.color = fg; // divs[i].style.color = '#FFC0CB'; } let textAreas = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea'); for (let i=0; i<textAreas.length; i += 1) { textAreas[i].style.backgroundColor = "#000000"; textAreas[i].style.color = fg; } // new case. comments now in a <div> with class commtext let comments = document.getElementsByClassName('commtext'); for (let i=0; i<comments.length; i += 1) { comments[i].style.backgroundColor = bg; comments[i].style.color = fg; } document.body.style.backgroundColor = '#000000'; document.body.style.color = '#FFFFFF'; }());