Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?

herodoturtle 22 points 33 comments September 13, 2026
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For the fellow parents, some fun context: My toddler is asleep on me, and this light is blinding.

Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

pelagic_sky

I use the HN Enhance extension in FF.

xeonax

Darkreader extension in Firefox

stagas

Dark Reader extension for Chrome.

farlight

On Android, Vivaldi supports dark more out of the box. It's actually just a toggle for the dark mode present on any chromium-based browser, and you can enable it globally in any of them in chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark Dark Reader, often recommended, is very slow, especially on old hardware. This built-in mode is much more efficient and works well on vast majority of pages.

OnionBlender

https://hcker.news has multiple dark mode themes.

tech234a

I still remember this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

Uzazo

Dark Reader extension in Safari.

avipars

Very beta: https://adhn.netlify.app/

VCFundedGenYer

Use the firefox extension "Dark Background and Light Text".

viccis

https://uso.kkx.one/style/92693 Use it with Stylus

Rendello

The suggestion has been brought up and dang has commented on it over the years. He doesn't seem opposed to it per se. It's possible your descendants may live to see dark-mode HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062 See also: dang + "dark mode": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... dang + "on the list" (lol): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

robgough

If you're on one of the betas for about-to-be-released apple OS’s, there's a new describe an extension functionality and building a dark mode for HN is exactly what I just used it to do. Super easy, and synced across all my devices. I know this sounds like an ad, but I was pretty impressed with it

Bender

In uBlock Origin -> My Filters: # HN dark Mode: news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black) news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #24273a) news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: #fafafa) news.ycombinator.com##div.c00:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #ffa000 !important) news.ycombinator.com##span#karma:style(color: #faa000 !important) news.ycombinator.com##span.pagetop:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##textarea:style(color: #696969 !important; background: inherit; ) news.ycombinator.com###hnmain:style(background: #24273a !important)

accrual

I am using Stylus and this theme: body { background-color: #262626 !important; } body > center > table, input, textarea { background-color: #222 !important; } body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td { background-color: #ff6600 !important; } /* Bright text */ td.title a:link, span.comment font, span.comment font a:link, u a:link, span.yclinks a:link, body:not([id]), td:nth-child(2):not(.subtext) > a:link, input, textarea, p > a, a > u, .c00, .c00 a:link, a[href="http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"], a[href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"] { color: #ccc !important; } .admin td { color: #aaa !important; } /* search box and comment box */ input, textarea { border: 1px solid #828282 !important; }

samus

Stock Dark Reader browser extension works well for me.

marcelo-earth

This is the Chrome Extension that I use, I love it because it has a Safari version that you can use on your iPhone: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-dark-mode/abpjfl...

Metricon

I use the "Comments Owl for Hacker News" Firefox extension - https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news It has a "Dark Mode" under options, plus it allows you to revisit a thread later and know which comments are new.

Meneth

I used "Override colors" under Settings -> Accessibility to set nice dark colors. Then I used userChrome.js from https://github.com/AlexVallat/firefox-scripts/ to add a button which toggles the browser preferences "browser.display.use_system_colors" and "browser.display.document_color_use", so I can still access bright mode if needed.

faxmeyourcode

Firefox desktop and mobile let you install addons like https://darkreader.org/ which work great.

randyrand

iOS accessibility shortcut: 3 taps on sleep button inverts the colors of any website, if you set it up.

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