It's been more than four years since Dark Mode was last proposed. I wonder if it will ever happen?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
HN doesn’t make changes like this. Use one of the many styling extensions to accomplish this instead. On a site like HN it’s very easy to theme it because the markup almost never changes (last 2 changes I remember were unvote/undone and collapsing threads) so it’s not like you have to constantly update your theme.
Options:<p>- <a href="https://hn.premii.com/#/options/appearance" rel="nofollow">https://hn.premii.com/#/options/appearance</a><p>- Darkreader browser addon<p>- Vivaldi on Android can do dark mode natively<p>- Android/iOS can do screen colour inversion
I think the philosophy of the site is to keep it barebones and traditional, to appease the purists. But there's an API and many community-made frontends, either in mobile app form or as alternative web services. On Android I use Harmonic, for example, which has a dark mode and much better usability across the board. The one thing it lacks is good replies management, though.
I doubt it, I haven't seen any noticeable CSS changes in ages. If I recall Ycombinator had an open job for a sysadmin position recently, if that is filled than at least it will be two people maintaining. (<a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/people">https://www.ycombinator.com/people</a> still only lists one person).
If it hasn't happened by now, I doubt it will. Would nice to be proven wrong, though. But as I've pointed out in the past, I doubt YC puts a ton of human resources into HN. And I wouldn't be surprised if making incremental changes like adding dark mode is high on the list of things to do.