Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThank you to this community for all the support through the years! We're spending a lot of our time on basic research and sensing, and we have a few small updates planned for f.lux, too. The main challenge as we learn more about the biology is to keep things simple enough--it's easy to make things complicated, and it's pretty hard (for me) to distill them to something that makes sense to most people. Also, if you care about how your…
This should probably get tagged [2013] or something, there are now built-in options into most platforms (at least Android, iOS, Plasma).
Obligatory plug for an open-source alternative, Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
This is a great tool. One of the first things I install when configuring new OS. I recommended it to my friends and while some of them were skeptical at first they are using it since then. Linux version of f.lux is called redshift. There is also app made for android but I never used it much.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 571
- Total comments
- 263
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-16 | F.lux – It makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day | Kelteseth | 12 | 2 |
| 2014-10-23 | Flux: software to make your life better | kamilszybalski | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-01-12 | F.lux: adjusts display color temp by time of day | medmunds | 14 | 6 |
| 2015-07-10 | F.lux software to make your life better | taietel | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-11-24 | Make your screen look like the room you're in, all the time | eddd | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-04-30 | f.lux: iOS 9.3's Night Shift mode for your Mac | seeekr | 2 | 2 |
| 2020-09-09 | F.lux automatically adjusts your computer lighting to match your environmentFirst breakout | IMAYousaf | 48 | 56 |
| 2022-03-10 | f.luxBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | graderjs | 486 | 197 |
| 2024-09-11 | F.lux: Screen color adaptor for better sleep | HiPHInch | 5 | 0 |