[bmpafa]

I think it's a fashion thing with a thin veneer of eye strain reduction (since, AFAIK, there's little conclusive evidence dark mode matters here)

[TeMPOraL]

I have HN and a terminal open side by side, and I can tell you HN is more painful to look at, simply because it's like shining flashlight into the eyes compared to a black-background terminal.

[acid303]

You should try using dark mode extensions like DarkReader if you aren't already. I have it enabled on most sites and it works almost flawlessly.

[0]https://darkreader.org/

[balaksakrionon]

I want to try it badly but it goes against most fibers of my being to give a 3rd party extension such crazy permissions:

  Access your data for all websites
  Access browser tabs

[yuft]

How else would it rewrite the styles for every page?

[eternalny1]

Dark Background on Light Text extension is great and you can customize the colors.

Also, try Stylus with the "Hacker News Readable Dark" style.

[eternalny1]

Not for me, nobody looking at my computer except for me and I have Slack now in dark mode, I have Dark Background and Light Text in Firefox (also dark mode) and custom dark style sheets in Stylus where they are available and good.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but staring at a blinding white computer monitor inches from my face all day as a software engineer HURTS. Like, literally hurts after a while.

Dark mode is much easier on the eyes.