HN Skins 0.2.0

By Susam Pal on 28 Feb 2026

HN Skins 0.2.0 is a minor update of HN Skins. It comes a day after its initial release in order to fine tune a few minor issues with the styles in the initial release. HN Skins is a web browser userscript that adds custom themes to Hacker News and allows you to browse HN with different visual styles.

This update removes excessive vertical space below the 'reply' links, sorts the skin options alphabetically in the selection dialog and fixes the background colour of the navigation bar in the Terminal skin by changing it from a dark grey to a dark green.

Soon after making this release, I discovered a few other minor issues, such as the Cafe and Terminal themes using Courier when I intended them to use the system monospace font. This has already been fixed in the development version currently available on GitHub. However, I will make a formal release later.

See the changelog for more details. To see some screenshots of HN Skins or to install it, visit github.com/susam/hnlinks and follow the instructions there.

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