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I like to read HN in the evening to unwind. A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fa

I like to read HN in the evening to unwind. A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fall to sleep. Dimming your phone brightness does not help sufficiently at all. In a dark room it's still like a relative flashlight in your eyes. This should not be such a head scratcher to understand.

ghusto 3y ago
> A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fall to sleep. I don't think that's true: https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/ https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/ This is a pet peeve of mine precisely because of the first line in that article: > It’s become a virtually unchallenged piece of conventional wisdom that exposure to blue light—the type emitted by electronic device screens—is bad for sleep.
- w1nst0nsm1th 3y ago
  I read somewhere that blue light theory is a corporate bullshit financed by glasses makers to add 50$ by glass the sell you for a production cost of ) 50 cents. A little like the 2000kcal by day by the agri-business lobby or the 1,5l of water by the water and soda business lobby.
  - Solvency 3y ago
    Weird to exclude the ultimate form of corporate bullshit: vaccine makers (ie: corporations) are federally protected from any and all civil action against them. And they're one of the few drugs that are effectively mandatory for approximately 76 million children. Every single year. A literal money making machine. Protected by law. For the benefit of corporations. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:text=No%20State%20may%20establish%20or,not%20barred%20by%20this%20part https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:text=....
    - haldujai 3y ago
      Excuse me? For the benefit of corporations? Polio used to be a thing in the western world, measles is coming back. Mandatory childhood vaccines are for the benefit of children and society. You’re also misrepresenting the NCVIA, the net result is arbitration that is easier to get a payout from as causality does not need to be proven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_I...
- davidjytang 3y ago
  The person you replied to said nothing about blue light but bright light. Are you claiming bright light does not affect sleep?

ghusto 3y ago

> A bright white website after dark is a great way to disrupt your melatonin production and affect your ability to fall to sleep. I don't think that's true: https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/ https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/ This is a pet peeve of mine precisely because of the first line in that article: > It’s become a virtually unchallenged piece of conventional wisdom that exposure to blue light—the type emitted by electronic device screens—is bad for sleep.

w1nst0nsm1th 3y ago
I read somewhere that blue light theory is a corporate bullshit financed by glasses makers to add 50$ by glass the sell you for a production cost of ) 50 cents. A little like the 2000kcal by day by the agri-business lobby or the 1,5l of water by the water and soda business lobby.
- Solvency 3y ago
  Weird to exclude the ultimate form of corporate bullshit: vaccine makers (ie: corporations) are federally protected from any and all civil action against them. And they're one of the few drugs that are effectively mandatory for approximately 76 million children. Every single year. A literal money making machine. Protected by law. For the benefit of corporations. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:text=No%20State%20may%20establish%20or,not%20barred%20by%20this%20part https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:text=....
  - haldujai 3y ago
    Excuse me? For the benefit of corporations? Polio used to be a thing in the western world, measles is coming back. Mandatory childhood vaccines are for the benefit of children and society. You’re also misrepresenting the NCVIA, the net result is arbitration that is easier to get a payout from as causality does not need to be proven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_I...
davidjytang 3y ago
The person you replied to said nothing about blue light but bright light. Are you claiming bright light does not affect sleep?