# Stylus

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Stylus and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Stylus for applying custom CSS to individual websites, such as hiding YouTube Shorts links or fixing the light mode flash on HN. Critics note its interface is not intuitive.

## Why people recommend it

- Custom CSS per site (4 comments): "a practical solution is to use a browser extension (such as Stylus) to customise the HN styling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344128)) "maybe use an extension like Stylus to hide the "Shorts" links on YT pages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788214)) "it's basically Tampermonkey but for site-level CSS overrides" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697274))
- Open-source alternative to Stylish (2 comments): "the similar (and open-source) Stylus extension is" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018980)) "Stylus is a good alternative to Stylish." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981887))
- Alternative to Tampermonkey-style scripts (2 comments): "Seems like something any custom-css/custom-js plugin can handle. Stylus, or those monkey extensions." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553637)) "it's basically Tampermonkey but for site-level CSS overrides" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697274))

## What people warn about

- Interface not intuitive (1 comments): "it doesn't have an intuitive ui though" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976469))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Stylus", https://hackerapproved.com/p/stylus/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).