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There's an overarching theme here of thin neon lines and white text on black background. Its interesting to me that despite the popularity of this in movies as the default "futuristic" computer interface, it rarely seems to make its way into actual software and especially web/app UI. One exception i can think of is the Bloomberg terminal.

I find this odd because its easier on the eyes and looks better. I would honestly prefer "night mode" for pretty much all software (ms office, the whole internet, etc). Gmail black theme looks great but the actually emails are still white background / black font...

Im not really a hacker... Does anyone know good "night mode" software or settings? There is one in windows 10 but it only applies to settings windows and not the file browser or much anything else.

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The standard answer here will be to have Flux, but that doesn't really accomplish what you are looking for.

I think once you start setting OLED on the desktop, you'll begin to see more work being done in this area.

I am also a huge fan of dark backgrounds; under the right circumstances. It can make you really focus in on specific content if the interface is minimalistic in its approach.

Dark UI doesn't look great in a glass-wall office during a morning board meeting, and it wastes ink. :)

I know this doesn't apply to your needs, however OSX/macOS has the ability to "Invert Display Color" and I use it all the time for precisely the use case you described.

some digging around I found Stylish [1] chrome extension which allows you to select dark modes (and others) for many common websites. Unfortunately many of the dark themes are really just dark grey, whereas I really prefer a deep inky black. My pixel xl has an amoled display which makes night modes look stunning because the pixels actually turn off with true black.

I used this app [2] to read hacker news and im delighted to find they have a web interface as well which has a dark mode

[1] userstyles.org [2] hn.premii.com

A while back I roughed up a dark theme for HN via a greasemonkey userscript, as seen here: http://i.imgur.com/PkwVEOD.png There are obviously some rough edges—no pun intended—such as around the voting buttons.

Dark themes really are just way easier on the eyes. Combining the Windows 10 dark theme, the black theme in Office 2016, Firefox Developer Edition, plus a bunch of dark themes for web sites yields a pretty good overall experience.

I use a great one for Firefox called Night Owl, highly recommend it

It's really a shame, because today's web and app UIs are simply atrocious and horrifically ugly, and not really all that useful either.

Computing was a lot easier on the eyes back in the days of green text on black backgrounds.

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