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Show HN: Use iPhone's camera as a lux meter

https://www.impulsearc.com/wavelength/
2•bkazez•1h ago
After suffering one too many times from bad jet lag, I read a bunch of circadian rhythm papers and developed a simple app to help fight jet lag. I knew that avoiding devices at night was helpful, but it turns out that getting the right light at specific times of day can help not just with jet lag but overall sleep and well being.

How it works: you give the app your sleep goal, and then it coaches you by estimating current melanopic light exposure from the iPhone's camera. I validated this against an $1800 lab-grade light meter and was surprised to find it is absolutely close enough for these purposes. (Note: I'm NOT a physicist or circadian rhythm researcher, so I'm grateful for any feedback.)

If you feel like your sleep schedule could be more dependable or if you suffer from jet lag, you might enjoy this app!

A Uiua Type System

https://www.uiua.org/blog/a-uiua-type-system
1•xyzsparetimexyz•50s ago•0 comments

The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1yHmeLPy8
1•julkali•1m ago•0 comments

RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10015.html
2•Jimmc414•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?

1•senor_digimon•6m ago•0 comments

Moore's Law for Everything (2021)

https://moores.samaltman.com/
2•eatitraw•6m ago•0 comments

Nomophobia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomophobia
1•andersonmvd•9m ago•0 comments

Surface – KDL Specification Format – Experimental

https://github.com/etoxin/surface
2•etoxin•11m ago•1 comments

New Rule: Commie by Your Name – Real Time with Bill Maher [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIjYHVh5kI
2•Bender•17m ago•1 comments

A Taxonomy of R&D Orgs

https://analogue.press/p/a-taxonomy-of-r-and-d-orgs
2•arbesman•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made 70K+ hand-drawn icons using AI

https://koboyo.com/icons
1•kamranahmedse•24m ago•0 comments

Kubeside – a Kubernetes client that shows your app, not your cluster

https://github.com/dynaum/kubeside
1•dynaum•28m ago•0 comments

Stop fucking around with database commits and transactions

https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/db-commits/
15•offbyone42•31m ago•2 comments

The Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a Myth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/what-is-5-meo-dmt-the-god-molecule-and-the-per...
1•petethomas•33m ago•0 comments

Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-greenland-threats-europe-b302...
6•root-parent•35m ago•0 comments

RoR: Arbitrary file read and RCE in Active Storage

https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2026-66066-possible-arbitrary-file-read-and-remote-code-exe...
2•dnw•36m ago•0 comments

Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead (2024)

https://situational-awareness.ai/
1•root-parent•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PhaseProbe – Find simulation transitions and turn them into tests

https://github.com/aliengineering-byte/phaseprobe
1•ali110v•37m ago•0 comments

Boeing Seats Failed Safety Test in Muan Crash Probe

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/07/31/H3WJ5S2HXRGJLIUGYFGVRZ5ESY/
4•root-parent•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Symbio self fine-tuning AI loop

https://github.com/huyedits/Symbio
4•huyedit•44m ago•0 comments

Living in My Own Bubble

https://foundersdigest.substack.com/p/living-in-my-own-bubble
2•ashu1461•50m ago•0 comments

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/willoughbyland-englands-forgotten-south-amer...
2•benbreen•50m ago•0 comments

In the Land of the Polygons on Mars

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4934-4940-in-the-land-of-the-polygons/
2•jnord•52m ago•0 comments

Truth Social to sell fast access to Trump's social media posts

https://apnews.com/article/trump-truth-social-media-insider-trading-posts-feeds-traders-25c2c5be9...
5•bushwart•52m ago•1 comments

Things I would have done differently (consulting)

https://www.revsys.com/tidbits/things-i-would-have-done-differently/
2•craigkerstiens•52m ago•0 comments

Art Invented Humanity

https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around
2•prismatic•53m ago•0 comments

Trying to Make Sense of Warsh

https://www.ft.com/content/17bcdc30-a59f-4a1f-afa7-f2c759fe588b
3•tcp_handshaker•53m ago•1 comments

Immutable Cosmic Distro AstrOS is now in beta

https://www.xda-developers.com/astros-a-distro-that-combines-the-best-of-arch-cosmic-and-immutabi...
2•linux-universe•54m ago•1 comments

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-07-28
10•hhs•54m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Wage Against the Machine – MacWages Index for AI Tasks

https://watm.ddyo.dev/
4•danr4•56m ago•1 comments

Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZpvIfho0
27•tcp_handshaker•1h ago•7 comments