Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)

The 2020 thread does a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 It shows 100 solutions in light of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Intense opinions and discussion. It teaches about alligator energy and how they can live without food for up to two years. It teaches that this site should look like top, yet I’ve rarely seen top on a white terminal in the past two decades. This does exist, nofi. Workarounds exist, and those are “mid” janky shit shows. One I tried was an iOS app. It flashes the page between light and dark on every click. Aside from not being a solution, it’s nausea-inducing, takes 20+ steps to install, requires you to blindly trust the app without a Git repo, and requires you to change your OS. It shows that running 20 miles to solve this is what people do to get to any promise of a solution. So many of these exist that it’s just a swamp of well intended nightmares making the problem worse. HN is filled with love for fonts, styling, terminal themes, CSS madness, and quirks. Yet here I am with empty hands and little karma, with a screen that burns into my eyes at night. The last bastion of light, in more ways than intended. As with the resolution to PHP’s sleep(