Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Themeable HN
Hi HN, I needed a distraction from the new and scary thing I was working on this weekend, so I grabbed HN's stylesheet, extracted CSS variables for every colour it defined, then re-applied them back onto HN using its own selectors (plus some extras for bits of HN which are styled inline, and some separation between header and content styling), allowing it to be themed with variables. After using them to implement a dark mode (and a pure black variant for OLED), plugging everything into my existing HN browser extension which already lets you apply custom CSS, and making it handle theme…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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tweakcn▲232Customize theme for shadcn/ui with tweakcn's interactive editor. Supports Tailwind CSS v4, Shadcn UI, and custom styles. Modify properties, preview changes, and get the code in real time.
2025 · tweakcn.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, creator of Video.js and co-founder of Mux & Zencoder here. My team and I built this. I hope you like the themes we’ve built so far, and maybe even get inspired to build your own. I know Web Components are in a bit of a drama cycle right now. I’m happy to see them get any attention really. I’ve been pretty bullish on them since ~2013 when I started working with them, at least in the context of a widget like a video player. I’ve even given many related talks on them like this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Mh84SRoDg). I would never push them for a large app or…
2024 · player.style · its alternatives →
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Browser extension that toggles an opinionated dark theme for the popular website, Hacker News. - azerella/ext-hn-darkmode
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Paste this in the developer tools console of your browser document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()" document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' Edit: you can also create a bookmark with the code below in the URL field javascript: (() => { document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()";document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' })(); Then just click on the bookmark for instant dark mode
2022 · its alternatives →
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A chrome extension that applies a stylesheet to Hacker News' frontpage. - guicoelho/hn-beautify
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Player.style▲321Video & audio player themes for every web player & framework
2024 · player.style · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve spent the last few weeks writing a browser extension that lets users write their own HN themes using Handlebars and CSS. It works by converting the current Hacker News page’s content into an object that is made available to the user-defined Handlebars templates. There is a built-in code editor that makes writing themes super easy and you can see changes in real-time. If you don’t want to write a theme from scratch, there are premade themes available or you may import one made by somebody else. It is shipped with Bootstrap so you can get pretty far without needing to write a lot…
2023 · hackernewspro.com · its alternatives →
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Simplexity Blog▲109An elegant blog theme built with Astro, Tailwind CSS & MDX
2023 · lexingtonthemes.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, I built https://ShadcnThemer.com - a web app for creating and sharing themes for shadcn/ui, made with my some of my favorites, Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS 4, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase. The goal was to make it easy to visually design shadcn color themes, preview them live across various example UIs, and export them straight into your projects (as CSS or via the shadcn CLI registry command). I had a bit of experience going into this because I built the Theme Studio for VS Code in the past, but it was fun using a modern stack and leveraging Cursor to help me along the way this…
Oct 2025 · shadcnthemer.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · gabrielecirulli.github.io · its alternatives →
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I love the look of HN on Christmas Day, but I never feel like I get quite enough of it in just one day. To rectify this catastrophic problem, I created a browser extension to give me the Christmas HN experience from the day after Thanksgiving until the first work-day of the new year. I also added a fun "extra festive" mode that enhances the festivity level of the site beyond it's normal look. I love it, but I expect it to be controversial :-D It's pretty easy to `git clone` and install it (instructions for Firefox and Chrome in the README.md). I haven't put it in the extension stores as I…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The palette on the official docs is a little limited. I added some more themes with funky names and I provide the code to copy/paste into your globals.css file. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see.
2024 · shadcncolors.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight, reactive, and elegant dark mode composable for Vue 3. Seamlessly toggle themes with zero dependencies.
2018 · vuedarkmode.com · its alternatives →
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Needed a syntax-highlighting theme for displaying code samples on our company blog, but found my favourite editor themes did not have WCAG-conformant color contrast. And the accessibility-focused themes I found didn't fit well with our site aesthetic. I'm sure there are such themes out there, but for our use I built these Measured Light & Dark schemes. Pleased with the results, so have open-sourced them and made them available to the base16 ecosystem. Happy theming!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've created and open-sourced an Astro developer blog template with an interactive theme changer that includes all 60 themes bundled with the JS code highlighter Shiki. Changing the theme affects the whole website including the code examples and Giscus comments. Inspired by the aesthetics of raw markdown, I wanted to create a beautiful blog like https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal but supercharged with a modern redesign and the incredible features of Astro. Features: - Simple configuration file - Multiple theme modes (single, light/dark/auto, select) -…
2025 · multiterm.stelclementine.com · its alternatives →
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Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS. Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation. Let me know what you think! Source is at https://github.com/say4n/hn, pull requests welcome!
2023 · hn.sayan.page · its alternatives →
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This project was made to demonstrate the power of the functional CSS and proper HTML techniques on Hacker News frontpage. Everything started with this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854214 that talks about how good is that HN wasn't redesigned since the OP was browsing it with slow connection. I though I could make HN even faster without changing the essence of the design too much. So I decided to re-do Hacker News using pure functional css (https://github.com/meerita/utilcss) and some tweaks to the code to increase the performance and test…
2019 · its alternatives →
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I worked on many apps where each customer needs their own branded theme. The problem is that you can't just shift hue and call it a day. Yellow at 50% lightness looks completely different from blue at 50%. That's why I built this library to generate perceptually uniform themes. Zero dependencies, runs at runtime, outputs CSS vars, Tailwind tokens, SCSS, or JSON. Ships with presets for shadcn/ui and MUI. try it out quickly: npx hextimate "#006677"
Apr 2026 · hextimator.com · its alternatives →
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Read HN in style! | Available Skins: Cafe, Courier, London, Midnight, Terminal - susam/hnskins
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sometimes UI can be distracting and I’ve found that I’m most focused when able to focus completely on the content on a page. I built HN Lite as a chrome extension to hide all information that isn’t vital to see. It removes excess navigation, usernames, saving/reporting features, upvotes, voting tools, account access, and styling. Essentially it’s a lurker’s tool. Almost entirely built around content consumption and exploration. Although it desperately needs dark mode.
2022 · hackernewslite.com · its alternatives →
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