HACKER Q&A
📣 Victerius

Why does HN not have a dark mode?


Why does HN not have a dark mode?


  👤 miles Accepted Answer ✓
It's been requested a number of times over the years:

Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? | 780 points | May 15, 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

Upvote for HN Darkmode? | 344 points | Feb 23, 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733

Ask HN: Please Dark Mode for HN | 89 points | 8 months ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26978950

Here is dang's response in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062

And here is a dark mode mirror: https://darkhn.herokuapp.com


👤 greenyoda
There are browser extensions such as Dark Reader that will display any site in dark mode: https://darkreader.org

👤 jpamata
I hope they implement it as a user option that you can turn on/off anytime. Dark mode hurts my eyes. Every time I read large blocks of white text over a dark background, I usually end up having a double vision of the text and later a headache. I find warm light to be the best

👤 adabaed
Cause HN brings the daily dose of blue light every nerd eye needs. Hahhaha, jokes aside, I don't know. Stylus is a good tool to read on this kind of webs!