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

4 points by wscourge ↗ HN
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.

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achrafash
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

Leftium
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;

        }

    }