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And as an added pro-tip, I use f.lux during the day to cut my color ", "context": "", "use_case": "screen color temperature", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blue light filters don't work"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 774050977, "item_id": 48378186, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378186", "by": "joshfee", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Flux looked expensive and unimpressive.", "excerpt": "For those interested in leveraging AI to build circuit boards, check out https://tscircuit.com/ I have no affiliation to the project, just someone that's done some hobby PCB design in the past and a couple weeks ago was exploring what's available in age of AI. Flux looked expensive and unimpressive. While it definitely burned through some tokens, I was able to get a seemingly functional PCB meeting my design requirem", "context": "hobby PCB designer", "use_case": "PCB design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"}, {"id": 756836960, "item_id": 47302310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302310", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2026-03-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm pretty confident that there is no thought behind this.", "excerpt": "Considering it went through two major versions in mere hours, the changelog specifying POC changes (instead of spec changes) and for some random reason switched from WS to (fetch functions?) I'm pretty confident that there is no thought behind this. I dig the idea, I dont dig the goal (reinvent email because it's \"hard\"?), and I don't dig everything after that. 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Obviously, the number of inference tasks explodes with the number of models. Led to some interesting results [^0]. - giving an agent \"stray thoughts\" produced by the same model, or another, giving the second model a selection of the agent\u2019s context, with different triggers (random, loop detection,\u2026)[^1]. So fa", "context": "", "use_case": "agent stray thoughts from a second model", "switched_from": "", "story": "Openrouter Fusion API"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522905", "title": "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? 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About 10 years full-stack, the last few on GPU infrastructure. Currently running a live production cluster: 700-800 users sharing a small physical GPU pool. GPU-backed JupyterHub, single sign-on, per-user quot", "context": "freelancer building on-prem GPU clusters", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 793898003, "item_id": 49618625, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618625", "by": "abejora", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GitOps CI/CD using Flux", "excerpt": "https://www.abejora.com/ - Timesheet registration software We try to differentiate in a few ways: * we try to be as fast and user friendly as possible, because nobody likes filling in timesheets: logical screens that align with the task you need to perform, keyboard support, flexible input... * democratic pricing. a lot of competitors hide the good stuff behind the expensive subscriptions, and per-seat pricing quickl", "context": "", "use_case": "GitOps CI/CD", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS"}, {"id": 793783665, "item_id": 49611479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611479", "by": "Aurornis", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "dedicated tools like Quilter, Flux, and others have a very, very long way to go for boards more complex than simple hobby boards", "excerpt": "> The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy. Stay away from Reddit and forums if you want to see where the open minded people are looking. There are a lot of communities where EEs are experimenting with newer technologies and sharing their results, with realistic appraisals of what can be done. You also need to understand the history of autorouting technology for PCBs. Au", "context": "", "use_case": "AI PCB design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Copperhead \u2013 Cursor for circuit boards"}, {"id": 787668704, "item_id": 49229294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229294", "by": "msuniverse2026", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've noticed if I use the f.lux feature for just 15 minutes I begin to get tired at night.", "excerpt": "I've noticed if I use the f.lux feature for just 15 minutes I begin to get tired at night. Blue light is a hell of a drug.", "context": "", "use_case": "blue light reduction for sleep", "switched_from": "", "story": "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults"}, {"id": 782278949, "item_id": 48892434, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892434", "by": "diseasedyak", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "using ComfyUI w/Flux", "excerpt": "I've been working on a home Hermes setup that I'm using to do a variety of things. So far, here's what I've done: - Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram. - Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog thes", "context": "", "use_case": "local image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 776818688, "item_id": 48551168, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551168", "by": "globular-toast", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use flux for gitops which works really well.", "excerpt": "I pushed k8s in the medium sized company I work for much the same reasons. We use flux for gitops which works really well. The problem is we now have as many clusters as we did bare metal hosts before. There's production clusters, dev clusters, ones in other regions etc. The idea was to have \"one place, one way to deploy\" but it's actually many places. Am I doing it wrong? Should it all be one cluster and just have d", "context": "works at medium-sized company", "use_case": "GitOps", "switched_from": "", "story": "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"}, {"id": 774050977, "item_id": 48378186, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378186", "by": "joshfee", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Flux looked expensive and unimpressive.", "excerpt": "For those interested in leveraging AI to build circuit boards, check out https://tscircuit.com/ I have no affiliation to the project, just someone that's done some hobby PCB design in the past and a couple weeks ago was exploring what's available in age of AI. Flux looked expensive and unimpressive. While it definitely burned through some tokens, I was able to get a seemingly functional PCB meeting my design requirem", "context": "hobby PCB designer", "use_case": "PCB design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"}, {"id": 761379684, "item_id": 47586230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586230", "by": "Seventeen18", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "an AI cover generator with FLUX", "excerpt": "So this was not supposed to become a product. I needed to merge some EPUBs, I didn't want to open Calibre for that, and every online tool I found was full of ads or wanted me to create an account to merge two files, or was just weird in a way. So I started building something quick on Cloudflare Workers with Claude Code. One tool became two, two became five, and now there is nine of them. Merge, split, compress, EPUB ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI cover generation", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 756836960, "item_id": 47302310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302310", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2026-03-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm pretty confident that there is no thought behind this.", "excerpt": "Considering it went through two major versions in mere hours, the changelog specifying POC changes (instead of spec changes) and for some random reason switched from WS to (fetch functions?) I'm pretty confident that there is no thought behind this. I dig the idea, I dont dig the goal (reinvent email because it's \"hard\"?), and I don't dig everything after that. Just write a spec at this point, the POC does nothing mo", "context": "", "use_case": "email protocol", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Flux, a tiny protocol that rethinks email from the ground up"}, {"id": 753647680, "item_id": 47102980, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102980", "by": "jedberg", "date": "2026-02-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my sleep quality got much better when I turned on f.lux.", "excerpt": ">It doesn\u2019t make any sense in 2026 that Gmail doesn\u2019t have a dark mode I've been using dark mode on gmail for years, not sure what OP is talking about here. But also, my sleep quality got much better when I turned on f.lux. And it got better still when I added a second light to my bathroom that can do a 1800K super-warm light (that's also very dim). And as an added pro-tip, I use f.lux during the day to cut my color ", "context": "", "use_case": "screen color temperature", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blue light filters don't work"}, {"id": 745595952, "item_id": 46599747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599747", "by": "mikeayles", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "you need to check out flux.ai (and quilter for layout)", "excerpt": "For AI designed schematics, you need to check out flux.ai (and quilter for layout), I don't have anything to do with this, i'm a little jealous tbh, but having used it, it's not for me (but i'm making fairly complex, FuSa, type approved stuff, for the sorts of boards that would go into phaestus, it would probably be adequate) I'm pretty in the weeds when it comes to this stuff, First of all, I made https://www.circui", "context": "builds complex, functional-safety, type-approved boards", "use_case": "AI schematic design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: AI in SolidWorks"}, {"id": 738743010, "item_id": 46171438, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171438", "by": "globular-toast", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It auto updates with flux and has been fine.", "excerpt": "I've been running Immich on my Kubernetes cluster for a few months now. It was one of the harder things to install. I didn't use the \"official\" Helm chart because I didn't like it, instead just set it up myself. I use Cloud Native Postgres for DBs so I have backups already configured. I had to use a special image with vectorchord in it. It auto updates with flux and has been fine. The only time it wasn't fine was whe", "context": "", "use_case": "GitOps auto updates", "switched_from": "", "story": "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"}]}