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I added a page to my site [0] to keep updated with all the tech I use so I'll do some copy-pasting of some standouts. Note that I use Linux and Android, no Apple products here. - EndeavourOS - easy to install arch-based linux distro - KDE - desktop environment - Framework 13 - repairable laptop - Pi", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Is Your 2026 Personal Software Stack?"}, {"id": 757065616, "item_id": 47316601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316601", "by": "k310", "date": "2026-03-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dark Reader works on all sites (it's configurable) and it only scrambles a few sites that react poorly to it.", "excerpt": "I use Dark Reader [0] with Firefox. It's in addons or $5 in mobile app stores. In addition, I use Infy Scroll, [1] which works with \"latest\" to give me a daily digest in HTML. I let it scroll, and copy a day's worth. 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Especially with my OLED monitor, it's amazing to see pure blacks and vivid whites, so much so that I use the Dark Reader extension everywhere and when that doesn't cut it, I use custom stylesheets for certain websites to make the `body { background: black; }`.", "context": "OLED monitor user", "use_case": "forcing dark mode on websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"}]}, {"text": ", across Firefox, Chrome and iPhone browsers", "cites": [{"id": 795008032, "item_id": 49688002, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688002", "by": "HeavyStorm", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.", "excerpt": "I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?"}, {"id": 778655968, "item_id": 48665998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665998", "by": "Modified3019", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it to keep from getting flashbanged by my monitor.", "excerpt": "For me it\u2019s Dark Reader (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader) which can be installed on at least chrome and Firefox desktop browsers, and safari and Kagi on iPhones. 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Especially with my OLED monitor, it's amazing to see pure blacks and vivid whites, so much so that I use the Dark Reader extension everywhere and when that doesn't cut it, I use custom stylesheets for certain websites to make the `body { background: black; }`.", "context": "OLED monitor user", "use_case": "forcing dark mode on websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Works everywhere", "summary": "Applies dark mode to any site, so users run it on everything.", "quotes": [{"id": 742375797, "item_id": 46398487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398487", "by": "metasaval", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dark Reader - dark mode for any site", "excerpt": "Hey! I guess I'll get some conversation started, this interests me too and I've been doing the same the last few years. I added a page to my site [0] to keep updated with all the tech I use so I'll do some copy-pasting of some standouts. 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In this case it also fixes the above site, however some websites need the color filter mode changed to work better, so realistically I\u2019m not ending up with less fixing of websites, just easier", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose \u2013 No Kubernetes Required"}]}, {"label": "Beats Chrome flag", "summary": "Gives reasonable results more often and is easier to toggle than Chrome's dark mode flag.", "quotes": [{"id": 802568160, "item_id": 50160510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160510", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this.", "excerpt": "I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this. 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It's my only video game. 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(2026)", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686233", "title": "Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300411", "title": "\"Solving a largely imaginary user goal\"", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665130", "title": "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose \u2013 No Kubernetes Required", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316349", "title": "Show HN: Dark Hacker News", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252971", "title": "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 2}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802697376, "item_id": 50168586, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168586", "by": "runjake", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use DarkReader and Noir and it doesn't remove/hide the upvote button for me", "excerpt": "Not OP, but I use DarkReader and Noir and it doesn't remove/hide the upvote button for me on either. I do have color filters enabled in accessibility on iOS, though.", "context": "iOS user", "use_case": "dark mode for HN on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)"}, {"id": 802568160, "item_id": 50160510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160510", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this.", "excerpt": "I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this. (I use Firefox generally, but my employer forces Chrome for many work tasks, and is also very concerned about data security from 3rd party extensions, so Dark Reader is not readily accessible. I use Dark Reader with Firefox at home, and find that it much more frequently has a reasonable result. Another issue with teh Chrome flag is that it is inconvenient to ", "context": "uses Firefox at home, employer forces Chrome", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)"}, {"id": 795008032, "item_id": 49688002, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688002", "by": "HeavyStorm", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.", "excerpt": "I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?"}, {"id": 788819057, "item_id": 49301191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301191", "by": "Lammy", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use two Firefox extensions to set it globally or on a per-site basis regardless of what my OS is set to.", "excerpt": "Imagine thinking your website is important enough to have its own settings UI lol > \u201cWhatever the system says\u201d is not just one extra option. It\u2019s also one extra weird option. It doesn\u2019t feel like the other two. It's wrong to conflate the `prefer-color-scheme` media query with \u201cWhat the system says\u201d, meaning the OS-level dark/light option. For most people this is probably true, but I prefer sites that work this way be", "context": "", "use_case": "set dark mode globally", "switched_from": "", "story": "\"Solving a largely imaginary user goal\""}, {"id": 778655968, "item_id": 48665998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665998", "by": "Modified3019", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it to keep from getting flashbanged by my monitor.", "excerpt": "For me it\u2019s Dark Reader (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader) which can be installed on at least chrome and Firefox desktop browsers, and safari and Kagi on iPhones. I use it to keep from getting flashbanged by my monitor. In this case it also fixes the above site, however some websites need the color filter mode changed to work better, so realistically I\u2019m not ending up with less fixing of websites, just easier", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose \u2013 No Kubernetes Required"}, {"id": 757065616, "item_id": 47316601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316601", "by": "k310", "date": "2026-03-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dark Reader works on all sites (it's configurable) and it only scrambles a few sites that react poorly to it.", "excerpt": "I use Dark Reader [0] with Firefox. It's in addons or $5 in mobile app stores. In addition, I use Infy Scroll, [1] which works with \"latest\" to give me a daily digest in HTML. I let it scroll, and copy a day's worth. Paste into SeaMonkey (New Composer Page), paste and save as HTML. Easter Egg is that I have to quickly click in the Search Box to gain focus for searching. It's my only video game. Appreciate the OP none", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dark Hacker News"}, {"id": 756401826, "item_id": 47275114, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275114", "by": "bergheim", "date": "2026-03-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "dark reader, vimium, sideberry", "excerpt": "Strange. I have a tab hoarding problem, I often have over 1000 tabs open [1][2], and I cannot remember the last time Firefox crashed. I'm thinking it must have been years? I use ublock origin though, which might help since ads do their best to steal your computer and soul through any means possible of course. I also use a bunch of other extensions though, dark reader, vimium, sideberry... I'd expect me to be a bit mo", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode", "switched_from": "", "story": "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"}, {"id": 754919970, "item_id": 47182498, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182498", "by": "ssl-3", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "all that's left is uBlock Oorigin, Dark Reader, and BitWarden", "excerpt": "On PC, it looks like I'm using this, from the end of January: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.69.0 And also this, from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0.4/releasenotes/ (with Linux, but that probably doesn't matter at all) And that's about it. I recently pruned some other Firefox extensions while troubleshooting ompletely unrelated issues, and all that's left is uBloc", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode extension", "switched_from": "", "story": "Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage"}, {"id": 746620080, "item_id": 46663755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663755", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-01-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the Dark Reader extension everywhere", "excerpt": "Good. I want FFFFFF and 000000, not any light and dark grays which are just annoying to read. Especially with my OLED monitor, it's amazing to see pure blacks and vivid whites, so much so that I use the Dark Reader extension everywhere and when that doesn't cut it, I use custom stylesheets for certain websites to make the `body { background: black; }`.", "context": "OLED monitor user", "use_case": "forcing dark mode on websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"}, {"id": 742375797, "item_id": 46398487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398487", "by": "metasaval", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dark Reader - dark mode for any site", "excerpt": "Hey! I guess I'll get some conversation started, this interests me too and I've been doing the same the last few years. I added a page to my site [0] to keep updated with all the tech I use so I'll do some copy-pasting of some standouts. Note that I use Linux and Android, no Apple products here. - EndeavourOS - easy to install arch-based linux distro - KDE - desktop environment - Framework 13 - repairable laptop - Pi", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Is Your 2026 Personal Software Stack?"}, {"id": 738056243, "item_id": 46128515, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46128515", "by": "k310", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Other mainstays: cookie deleters, Dark Reader, and nag/paywall busters", "excerpt": "I use Firefox almost exclusively, for the continual updates compared to Safari. Apple really wants you to update the OS, and seemingly reluctantly updates Safari separately. I have used Firefox, Safari and Opera with GhostText, the life-saving extension for text boxes like this one. The associated text editor never loses content, though on a site that allows preview of typing (hint, hint), the editor connection is lo", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which web browser are you using and why?"}, {"id": 736841760, "item_id": 46052610, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052610", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2025-11-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have DarkReader extension (must have for me)", "excerpt": "I love this soo much. I strongly hope some day the web can do some of the hypercard like thing of showing off what is is, having pages have a structure that's meaningful and also conveyed into the page itself. This is such a neat simple direct experiment in bringing the user and the page together, in that vein. Side note: I have DarkReader extension (must have for me), and there's half a page of it's gobbledygook at ", "context": "", "use_case": "dark mode for websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Transparent.html: A self-referential experiment in making web infra visible"}]}