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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
        That’s the interpretation I took away as well.
  - dang 7mo ago
    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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183
- keizo 7mo ago
  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/ https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/
  - dang 7mo ago
    We tried a variant of that once and it failed hard, because people have strongly different emotional responses to the front page vs. the newest page. Mixing the two produced a strong aversion.
    - keizo 7mo ago
      Interesting! Like less overall engagement? Was it fully mixed or in distinct columns. I feel like it makes a difference. I would at least interact with the new content if it was on the page. Vs almost never now. I assume people that are active on the new page must be 1% of users or mostly those directly involved with the story. Anyway, thanks for the response and keep the place sane.
      - dang 7mo ago
        Here's a previous explanation (sorry for the gross analogy!) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 It was mixed in, which probably made it worse.
QQ00 7mo ago
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.
- latchkey 7mo ago
  https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84366d8d31059b579a84389da53340205fb064c/src/utils/dark-mode.css https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84...
- vunderba 7mo ago
  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/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
  - jasomill 7mo ago
    Thanks for this! I've been using it for less than a minute, and it has already exceeded my expectations: Installed, opened the raw view in the GitHub link to the dark mode style linked to above to copy it into the clipboard, and was pleasently surprised that it opened in the extension with syntax highlighting and a button to install. Clicked "Install", back back to HN, reload, dark mode.
    - vunderba 7mo ago
      Cheers! I feel like the vast majority of extensions could be rewritten as either TamperMonkey or Stylus scripts. I’m always leery of installing new extensions (nothing against Orange Juice) because of all the high-profile cases where they get bought out by unscrupulous companies and basically turn into malware payload delivery systems. It’s nice to be able to reduce the attack surface down to just these two extensions, which have been around for a long time.
      - jasomill 7mo ago
rcarmo 7mo ago
It does not work in embedded browsers inside RSS readers

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
      That’s the interpretation I took away as well.
- dang 7mo ago
  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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183
keizo 7mo ago
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/ https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/
- dang 7mo ago
  We tried a variant of that once and it failed hard, because people have strongly different emotional responses to the front page vs. the newest page. Mixing the two produced a strong aversion.
  - keizo 7mo ago
    Interesting! Like less overall engagement? Was it fully mixed or in distinct columns. I feel like it makes a difference. I would at least interact with the new content if it was on the page. Vs almost never now. I assume people that are active on the new page must be 1% of users or mostly those directly involved with the story. Anyway, thanks for the response and keep the place sane.
    - dang 7mo ago
      Here's a previous explanation (sorry for the gross analogy!) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 It was mixed in, which probably made it worse.

QQ00 7mo ago

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.

latchkey 7mo ago
https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84366d8d31059b579a84389da53340205fb064c/src/utils/dark-mode.css https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84...
vunderba 7mo ago
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/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
- jasomill 7mo ago
  Thanks for this! I've been using it for less than a minute, and it has already exceeded my expectations: Installed, opened the raw view in the GitHub link to the dark mode style linked to above to copy it into the clipboard, and was pleasently surprised that it opened in the extension with syntax highlighting and a button to install. Clicked "Install", back back to HN, reload, dark mode.
  - vunderba 7mo ago
    Cheers! I feel like the vast majority of extensions could be rewritten as either TamperMonkey or Stylus scripts. I’m always leery of installing new extensions (nothing against Orange Juice) because of all the high-profile cases where they get bought out by unscrupulous companies and basically turn into malware payload delivery systems. It’s nice to be able to reduce the attack surface down to just these two extensions, which have been around for a long time.
    - jasomill 7mo ago

rcarmo 7mo ago

It does not work in embedded browsers inside RSS readers