Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

[danso]

I upvoted this like I try to do for most good effort/well-intentioned Show HN's, but I wasn't planning on installing it since I had customized my HN settings to make my HN usage as discrete as possible, with `topcolor` set to #f6f6ef (wish bodycolor was also a setting so I could just make the header and the HN body #eeeeee!).

But after reading some of the other comments I decided to add the plugin and am feeling that I won't regret it :) Not only do I love the use of pink in general, I love this theme's particular choices, such as the blue accent for the headline links and the muted pink for visited links for even better minimalist readability. The minimized header is a also nice touch (though maybe `new`, `threads`, and `submit` deserve emphasis -- at least based on my habits). And I guess if I want my web browser not to scream "HACKER NEWS READER" to anyone looking over my shoulder, a theme that hides the "Hacker News" header in addition to adding a pink explosion will do the trick. Thanks!

[caroherm]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you decided to install it, feel free to let me know if you see anything that could be improved. I was inspired by the color scheme from Bubblesort's "Git it Gurl" shirts (https://shop.bubblesort.io/products/git-it-gurl-shirt?varian...), with the nice splash of blue-purple on the pink background.

[akras14]

You may like my side project.

https://www.techtldr.com/posts/2018/summary-for-2018-01-03/

One sentence summary, keywords and statistics for best HN posts with score greater than 50, aggregated daily.

The theme does not look like HN, so thought you might like that.

[chrismorgan]

My topcolor is #abcdef. I’m also quite fond of #123456 (though not as a topcolor).

[taspeotis]

Personally I find HackerNew [1] to be quite a sensible addition to the HN theme.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

[1k2ka]

Anyone know of a similar extension for Firefox?

[faitswulff]

I unironically find this much easier to read HN with. Especially with dead or downvoted comments. The hearts are just a bonus.

[caroherm]

Glad to hear it!

[BugsJustFindMe]

Why is it a Chrome extension instead of just a bit of CSS in one of the many custom CSS extensions that already abound?

[caroherm]

Mostly because I'm familiar with developing Chrome extensions, and appreciate the freedom and ease of distribution. I also used a bit of Javascript to rework some of the text areas, like the bar at the top. And injecting the favicon is done in JS as well.

I'll look into custom CSS extensions though! I'm not familiar with them. The repo is at https://github.com/carolinehermans/HNcute – it could definitely be organized better, I didn't expect to be sharing!

[e12e]

Indeed. Appears the "stylish" extension and/or https://userstyles.org would be a natural fit for this?

[ttsda]

found the css https://github.com/carolinehermans/HNcute

[carlosdp]

idk, cause the one-click install is easier to distribute than telling people to install a generic plugin they might only use for this 1 mod anyways.

[jancsika]

Instant upvote to anyone who forks it to append cat and giggle emojis to any post that references the chrome extension.

"Why is HNCutePlus on Hacker news?" giggles kittens

[caroherm]

This is the best comment

[chrisparton1991]

Nice work, and thanks for sharing! I think your repo serves as a great example of how simple a Chrome extension can be, so it has value as reference material.

[caroherm]

Thanks so much! I'm planning to clean up the repo later tonight so it's better organized.

[advertech]

Just an idea, but maybe at a high karma threshold, logged in users can reference a cross-origin style sheet, via linked URL?

User profile page would need to be a safe page, so users don't lock themselves out with wonky styles.

Also, stern warnings about privacy surrounding referrer headers and basic ad tech concepts like tracking pixels. Although browser extensions are just as deadly or worse.

[numbers]

I like it, there are some colors that are still present like the comments view still has the orange and red colors here and there. I will keep it installed and look for updates :)

One request would be to make the font sizes a bit bigger, maybe different font families as well!

[caroherm]

I'll look for remaining orange/red areas and push an update later tonight. Good call on the font sizes! I used Open Sans because I wanted things to stay simple and easy to read, but it might be nice to look into something else in the future.

[krapp]

I've updated my Greasemonkey plugin that makes some minor changes to HN's text layout. It unfades faded comments, highlights inline quotes (prefaced with '>') and improves readability.

It's very small and uses calls to HN's own javascript. Too small to be worth its own post but .. this seemed like a good thread to post it as a comment.

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/kennethrapp/Hacker_News_Text_...

[hycaria]

I like the color theme but dislike how everything seems more spaced out.

Also as a female, maybe not very professionnal after all. Rather have people recognize HN on my browser than wonder what girly stuff I might do.

[darkkindness]

Ah, this is something I didn't know I needed. Nice work!

[andkon]

THIS IS SO GOOD. And readable! But mostly adorable.

[caroherm]

Thank you! :D

[nyxtom]

At first I thought I wasn't going to like this but I was pleasantly surprised :D The hearts are a nice touch :D Nice work :D

[caroherm]

Thank you! :D

[jchw]

It'd probably be simpler to do this as a userstyle, since there are many extensions supporting userstyles. Still, if you prefer the WebExtension format that Chrome provides, it's worth noting you could trivially release the same extension for Firefox and Edge, since I'm sure all of the APIs this uses are compatible.

[caroherm]

Sweet, will definitely look into this.

[ninjakeyboard]

I have my hn bar set as pink with the Karma-unlocked feature. This is tempting though...

[caroherm]

I originally was going to just do this but didn't realize you needed a certain amount of Karma

[dvt]

Great job, looks cute! HN should make this the default style for Valentine's day :)

[caroherm]

Thanks!

[TheArcane]

Is there a dark HN theme anyone recommends? On Stylish or outside?

[l_h]

I read HN using http://hn.premii.com. You can set a darker theme in the menu.

[anandkulkarni]

Enjoying this theme. Thanks for sharing. Makes HN more fun!

[caroherm]

Glad to hear it!

[_RPM]

Neat. I’ll show this to my wife. She will love the colors.

[caroherm]

Awesome!