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Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

20 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 18 comments · first 2018-07-18 · latest 2025-08-23

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  1. Check out https://github.com/alin23/Lunar it's the most advanced app on mac when it comes to controlling screens
    comment by sersi · 2025-08-23 · in From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
  2. …uses it to hide the private elements in a public repo. [0]: https://sobolevn.me/git-secret/ [1]: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/
    comment by richbell · 2024-11-27 · in Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git
  3. …could have been spent better than hunting new IDs in URLs and updating regular expressions. [1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar
    comment by alin23 · 2023-10-29 · in YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
  4. …apps borrowed code from it (even competitors). For example here is the Notch button implementation: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/Data/Displ... The Notch disabling function is free and doesn't require paying for a Pro…
    comment by alin23 · 2023-04-13 · in Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
  5. …the advent of Thunderbolt this may change in the future. [1] https://files.lunar.fyi/mccs.pdf [2] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/DDC/DDC.c#... : Delay on requesting data from monitor [3]…
    comment by alin23 · 2022-12-19 · in Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Does one exist?
  6. …( https://lunar.fyi/ ) is done in AppKit with Storyboards and it’s a pain to maintain (source here: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar ) I just wanted to say that you can and most likely should use UIKit without touching interface builder.…
    comment by jdmoreira · 2022-11-28 · in SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow
  7. …( https://lunar.fyi/ ) is done in AppKit with Storyboards and it’s a pain to maintain (source here: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar ). So much that I finally created a SwiftUI menubar menu for it where I can add the more dynamic bits…
    comment by alin23 · 2022-11-28 · in SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow
  8. …and got some ideas on how to implement Custom Presets from testing DisplayBuddy. [1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/DDC/DDC.c#... [2] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/
    comment by alin23 · 2022-11-16 · in Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?
  9. …off in 3 years of time) until I had Lunar 3 which was the most stable until Apple Silicon arrived: https://github.com/alin23/lunar/tree/lunar3 I had accumulated about $5k in donations over those years which allowed me to quit my job, do 6…
    comment by alin23 · 2022-11-16 · in Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?
  10. …level. There’s also a comparison table with DisplayBuddy here: https://lunar.fyi/#comparison [0] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/DDC/DDC.c#... [1] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/
    comment by alin23 · 2022-09-09 · in Life's too short to be pressing the buttons on your monitor
  11. Yes, it's not open-source by that definition. It was fully open-source until v3: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/tree/lunar3 I've kept that around, it's still compilable, but probably not that useful. When making Lunar paid in v4, I didn't…
    comment by alin23 · 2022-03-23 · in Show HN: Lunar XDR Brightness control
  12. …trying to give something back to the community which gave me the inspiration to create this: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar Even with $23 per license, after taxes I barely make half of what I made at my previous job where I worked less…
    comment by alin23 · 2022-03-07 · in Russia to legalize software piracy
  13. …as a free download right on the front page, and its source code is untouched in the lunar3 branch ( https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/tree/lunar3 ) Most people were happy to pay and support me for the new app, but inevitably there were some…
    comment by alin23 · 2022-01-12 · in Ask HN: Is it malicious to start charging $ for your previously free project?
  14. …since the first developer beta but this only became an issue in the last 2 months or so. [1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar [2] https://cln.sh/CfEL6u
    comment by alin23 · 2021-11-07 · in Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
  15. …I wonder if there's any way to detect this and read or compute the SDR brightness instead. [1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/issues/86
    comment by alin23 · 2020-12-05 · in Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
  16. …you can take a look at the source code of the sendAnalytics function in AppDelegate.swift: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar
    comment by alin23 · 2020-09-01 · in Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
  17. …rather than global! You could open a feature request on GitHub, best way to let author know. https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/issues/new?assignees=alin23&...
    comment by car · 2020-09-01 · in Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
  18. …a spaghetti mess of Swift because I didn’t know reactive frameworks for Swift existed at the time: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar
    comment by alin23 · 2020-03-22 · in Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?