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HN comment orderThis thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying. Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues. The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it screw up…
It is a interesting idea which other people had before him in my opinion. I think its a bit useless though. Let me tell you why. Rather soon after the TV was introduced people started to sleep less. This is actually so evident that there is extensive research about this. (here is a common article for instance: http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/505495.ht... ) So TV causes already people to sleep less and some experience sleep disorders, ok what about the internet/computer thing? Well, as…
I tried out f.lux a while ago. The problem is, a 'warm' screen really doesn't look very nice, and after a few late nite coding sessions I disabled it. I've found it much more effective to just turn the brightness down at night. For the iPhone and iPad, it seems like when you turn the brightness down past a certain point it stops being an attention grabbing shiny object, and just turns into another, boring thing. Weird I know, but…
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488211
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-02-20 | Better lighting for your computerFirst breakout | nreece | 107 | 42 |
| 2009-05-05 | Does your monitor hurt your eyes at night? Auto-adjust your color temperature. | chaosmachine | 40 | 21 |
| 2010-10-25 | Change your color temperature to fix your sleep patterns | srgseg | 56 | 22 |
| 2011-10-28 | F.lux: software to make your life better | protez | 15 | 2 |
| 2013-01-10 | Save your eyes, start using f.luxHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | jarospisak | 423 | 255 |