Why “hue” is being discussed
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Hue-rs: control hue lightbulb directly
by hiatus330 · Oct 30, 2026 · 4 points
Use this bookmarklet to rotate the hue by +20. You can use it multiple times in a row: javascript:(()=>{const e=document.documentElement;let n=parseFloat(e.dataset.hue||"0")+20;…
by Tepix · Oct 30, 2026
If you asked me to pick out bright bold blue (#0000FF) and told me the format was "Lightness Chroma Hue" with valid ranges, I would guess "0.5 1.0 240". Not only is this "not vi…
by PennRobotics · Oct 30, 2026
I explicitly noted that someone probably has colour blindness if they can't discern the hues. And it turns out that is the situation in this case, it just wasn't stated. I didn'…
by llm_nerd · Oct 30, 2026
It seems that you're indirectly citing my comment, so I have to reply. You really have trouble differentiating between 5fd3ff and b58cff? These are dramatically different hues (…
by llm_nerd · Oct 30, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "hue" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "hue" over time.
In color theory, hue is one of the properties of a color, defined in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet", within certain theories of color vision. Read more on Wikipedia