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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 th

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.

tomComb 7mo ago
That would be great! Please do.
latchkey 7mo ago
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.
- altairprime 7mo ago
  Ah, oh well. Thanks!
- zvr 7mo ago
  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!
  - latchkey 7mo ago
    It is AI assisted. I still wrote code and designed the core architecture of how it works.
  - spiderice 7mo ago
    I mean, it's a color scheme. With like 5 colors. So good luck getting it copyrighted anyway.
satvikpendem 7mo ago
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.
- latchkey 7mo ago
  Or you can just use my extension, heh.
- dang 7mo ago
  Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened
  - Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
    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?
    - robin_reala 7mo ago
      Out of interest, why do you suppose that?
      - deleted 7mo ago
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      - Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
        Oh, I had thought that when dang said somethings took 15 years and pow they happened, maybe my interpretation was that dark mode is definitely something which can occur within the future in a similar fashion.
        altairprime 7mo ago
andrecarini 7mo ago
For those that prefer userstyles, I made a dark theme a while ago https://github.com/andrecarini/hn-dark-mode/blob/main/hn-dark-mode.user.css 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.

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.

tomComb 7mo ago

That would be great! Please do.

latchkey 7mo ago

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.

altairprime 7mo ago
Ah, oh well. Thanks!
zvr 7mo ago
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!
- latchkey 7mo ago
  It is AI assisted. I still wrote code and designed the core architecture of how it works.
- spiderice 7mo ago
  I mean, it's a color scheme. With like 5 colors. So good luck getting it copyrighted anyway.

satvikpendem 7mo ago

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.

latchkey 7mo ago
Or you can just use my extension, heh.
dang 7mo ago
Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
  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?
  - robin_reala 7mo ago
    Out of interest, why do you suppose that?
    - deleted 7mo ago
      [deleted]
    - Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
      Oh, I had thought that when dang said somethings took 15 years and pow they happened, maybe my interpretation was that dark mode is definitely something which can occur within the future in a similar fashion.
      - altairprime 7mo ago

andrecarini 7mo ago

For those that prefer userstyles, I made a dark theme a while ago https://github.com/andrecarini/hn-dark-mode/blob/main/hn-dark-mode.user.css 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.