Ask HN: TIL themes for HN is a thing. What else do you guys use to browse it?

Pretty much the title. I saw the Dracula theme trending today, so I thought I'd ask.

I'm fairly new here, kinda like the default raw exteriors, but always on the lookout for things to improve my experience or simply make it cool.

Leftium 2y

I browse HN with a custom client I built for myself: https://hw.leftium.com/

- Shows all posts that hit the top page, ordered by most recent

- Easier to read; long sub-threads start collapsed with comment count.

My client is read-only, so in order to comment there is a link to the original HN page. (Also have a bookmarklet to toggle between the two.) To improve my experience on official HN site:

- Refined Hacker News: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/28686126

- Made it more readable with a custom user style (I modified another "Readable Hacker News Theme"):

    @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
        body {
            margin: 0;
        }

        p,
        .comment {
            max-width: 685px;
            font-size: 1.1em;
            font-family: sans-serif !important;
        }


        pre {
            font-family: monospaced !important;
            max-width: none;
            padding-bottom: 14px;
            font-size: 1em;
        }

        td.title {
            font-family: sans-serif !important;
            font-size: 1em;

        }

    }

latchkey 2y

https://github.com/lookfirst/refined-hacker-news/tree/main

wscourgeOP2y

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

achrafash 2y

Is it a built-in feature?

I’m using modernhn.com it’s a chrome extension. It does the job but I’d be curious to try other themes

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