Ask HN: Why does Chrome's Dark Mode extension not work on HN?

2 pointsGalenErso2 comments

The extension in question: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode/dmghijelimhndkbmpgbldicpogfkceaj

It works on 99% of websites, but not on HN. The white background turns dark, but the HN box in the middle remains the same color. Why is that?

It looks like hn uses the deprecated 'bgcolor' attribute for that part of the page which overrides the css for the extension. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/tr...

As an alternative, you can hack HN's CSS directly using Stylus.

My "Madhackery" theme isn't dark, but could be with reasonable ease:

And here's something I've hacked together quickly based on the previous style, for an HN dark mode: