[husainfazel]

The night shift mode on this blog has got to be the most pointless I've seen. Black text on black background with a reveal effect when you move your mouse!

[dang]

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[jdefelice]

I thought it was clever and fun and reminded me of when people added creative touches to their websites.

[natpalmer1776]

I think if it didn't detract from normal expected functionality it would be fine, fun even.

The problem is when the expected behavior is supplanted by this arbitrary behavior that, for the record, doesn't work on mobile.

[throwamon]

I think it's pretty clear that the point is to detract from normal expected functionality.

[dspillett]

Simple implementation too, the light is actually the background and that is offset in response to mouse events, I've seen similar effects done in horrendously overcomplicated ways that don't work nearly as well due to z-order issues and such. Credit to the creator.