Pretty sure Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide iOS icon does this. Not the whole icon, just the stars in it. Hiding the app in a folder helps but I’m looking for a better alternative just because of this.
pbhjpbhj 38 minutes ago [-]
Uninstall the app? Leave a review, tell the developer.
masklinn 46 minutes ago [-]
On the other hand it’s a great signal that whoever uses that is an obnoxious twat and should be plonked.
gerdesj 29 minutes ago [-]
The <blink> tag's spiritual successor.
hyperhello 9 minutes ago [-]
Oh, I bet the author is kicking himself for not including a blinking high-brightness class.
shaky-carrousel 9 minutes ago [-]
Or better, a blink tag that switches between HDR and non HDR text.
telecuda 16 minutes ago [-]
If you want to opt-out of the second coming of <blink>:
chrome://flags/#force-color-profile -> sRGB
telecuda 37 minutes ago [-]
I mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It can be tricky in dense interfaces to draw focus to something (little tooltips or big buttons aren't the best answers). This is just another tool in the toolbox.
tjoff 2 minutes ago [-]
We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point.
Still, even with the best intent what you suggest is still annoying. Okay, you got my attention, i now know what you wanted me to know. Are you going to nag me for all eternity?
dawnerd 19 minutes ago [-]
It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.
theturtletalks 11 minutes ago [-]
I saw a restaurant on Uber Eats with a HDR enhanced image. The whole screen felt dim but I thought it was just me. How can it dim the whole screen?
embedding-shape 10 minutes ago [-]
> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed.
What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.
keane 13 minutes ago [-]
For an authoritative overview of high dynamic range on monitors, I recommend the 137 minute documentary Debunking HDR (Steve Yedlin, 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248968
froh42 57 minutes ago [-]
Oooh fuuuuuuck. Do we now have the HDR screen version of the 90s/00s CD volume wars? MAX IT OUT?!? BE LOUDER! BE BRIGHTER! WTF.
leni536 34 minutes ago [-]
It goes up to 11
daigoba66 22 minutes ago [-]
I’ve noticed this trend on LinkedIn just recently. Very noticeable at night, obviously, when my screen is naturally more dim. But these logos are like blinding headlights.
varun_ch 20 minutes ago [-]
If you use HDR videos, you can get bright white even on soon browsers that don’t support HDR images
anigbrowl 45 minutes ago [-]
> Every social network strips these tags except the worst one
> Clearly we need more of it
I do not in fact want sites trying to get around my display preferences to post their visual presence on screen.
kccqzy 9 minutes ago [-]
I hate gain maps in JPEGs. I noticed that because I insisted on capturing JPEGs and not HEIF on my iPhone, and I found that the iPhone would also show overexposed parts (such as the sky) brighter than plain white. That's how I came to know gain maps. Fortunately on iOS, although I cannot disable the inclusion of gain maps in photos I take, I can stop Photos.app from rendering them: just turn off "View Full HDR" in the settings.
The Metapho app on iOS seems to be a good app to view the gain map itself. I give it no access to my photos and use the share sheet to view gain maps of specific images.
uhoh-itsmaciek 21 minutes ago [-]
In Firefox, the page tells me neither my browser nor my display support HDR. In Chrome, it works fine. Latest browsers on a Pixel 8.
nvr219 20 minutes ago [-]
I noticed this as well on Firefox and I say, good, please don't fix.
dylan604 52 minutes ago [-]
I just noticed something similar today as an ad where the green oval button was so bright that the rest of the white screen felt grayish/dull than white. It could not be unnoticed playing on the notion that the eye is attracted to the brightest thing on the screen
opengrass 31 minutes ago [-]
Waddabout an ImageMagick command or explanation how to export in Inkscape?
sbustelo 41 minutes ago [-]
It seems you have seen the same logo in LinkedIn that I did :)
This is fun and will try to embed it in our project next week.
perryizgr8 49 minutes ago [-]
The page says it should work on my phone but it doesn't. No difference between the SDR and HDR versions on my phone (S26 Ultra / Chrome).
Jaxan 43 minutes ago [-]
It also depends on your screen brightness. In my case, if it’s set to maximum, there is no difference between SDR and HDR.
telecuda 14 minutes ago [-]
That's what I'm finding as I researched it:
Android's HDR brightness slider is low - The single most common "HDR does nothing" report on Android 15/16 devices. Samsung also has Super HDR/Extra brightness / Vision booster toggles under Display. Any of them at the conservative setting would have an effect.
mattlondon 17 minutes ago [-]
Came here to say this. It just cranks the brightness up for the pixels. But if you are already at 100% there is not much headroom so all the "before and after" for me were pretty hard to differentiate. There was some minor difference if I studied it closely but I'd probably not notice it during normal use it was so slight.
If I went down to say 50% brightness then it was much more pronounced, but who lives their life with their eyes only half open like that?!
telecuda 41 minutes ago [-]
I was only able to test it on my iPhone. Let me see if the S26 needs a tweak (or confirm if it's not support)
telecuda 46 minutes ago [-]
Works for text too!
Rendered at 21:02:32 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
You know it will be annoying.
chrome://flags/#force-color-profile -> sRGB
Still, even with the best intent what you suggest is still annoying. Okay, you got my attention, i now know what you wanted me to know. Are you going to nag me for all eternity?
What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.
> Clearly we need more of it
I do not in fact want sites trying to get around my display preferences to post their visual presence on screen.
The Metapho app on iOS seems to be a good app to view the gain map itself. I give it no access to my photos and use the share sheet to view gain maps of specific images.
https://www.bustelo.com.ar/apps/superbright/index.en.php
Android's HDR brightness slider is low - The single most common "HDR does nothing" report on Android 15/16 devices. Samsung also has Super HDR/Extra brightness / Vision booster toggles under Display. Any of them at the conservative setting would have an effect.
If I went down to say 50% brightness then it was much more pronounced, but who lives their life with their eyes only half open like that?!