HN Skins – Available Skins: Cafe, Courier, London, Midnight, Terminal

In plain words

HN Skins is a collection of five visual themes for Hacker News, including Cafe, Courier, London, Midnight, and Terminal options. Designed for developers who use Hacker News regularly, it allows users to customize the site's appearance to suit their preferences. The tool is available on GitHub and provides different styling options to change how the platform looks while browsing.

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From the sources

HN Skins is a browser userscript that adds custom themes to Hacker News (HN). Note: To use the HN Skins userscript, you must first install a userscript manager such as Greasemonkey , Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey into your web browser and then click the install link above. After you install HN Skins , visit news.ycombinator.com . A new link called 'skins' appears in the top navigation panel. This section presents a few screenshots of the various skins available. This is free and open source software. You can use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicence and/or sell copies of it, under the terms of the MIT Licence. See LICENCE.md for details. This software is provided "AS IS",…from github.com

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