Hacker News Digest

· 11 Hacker News

  1. ▲ 134Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Can Prove a Photo Is Real—Here's How

    Apple Reference Image is an opt-in camera mode on iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max that creates a cryptographically signed digital negative on dedicated secure hardware, then develops it in Private Cloud Co…

  2. ▲ 90Inflight Simulator - Experience Flight as a Passenger

    Inflight Simulator flips the traditional flight sim on its head: instead of piloting, you're a passenger on an Explorer jet. Choose from hundreds of real airports worldwide, from Copenhagen to Honolu…

  3. ▲ 87One Hobbyist Rebuilt 3dfx Voodoo Graphics Inside an FPGA

    After a month of work on his z486 MiSTer core, nand2mario built zSST, a SystemVerilog implementation of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics (SST-1) chip. Combined with his z486 CPU on a Xilinx KV260 board, it f…

  4. ▲ 60Negativland's 46-Year Fight to Make Art from Corporate Culture

    Negativland started in 1980 with a self-titled album and handmade covers, expecting to sell 100 copies in five years. They sold 500 in three months. Over 46 years, the multimedia collective has relea…

  5. ▲ 47Cloudflare lets sites block AI training without losing Google search traffic

    Cloudflare's new Disallow AI Training setting publishes a no-training preference in robots.txt while keeping mixed-use crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot indexing your site for search. Apple, Google…

  6. ▲ 32Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II

    After adding Kodak DC-50 support to Quicktake for Apple II, I dove into the Sierra-class cameras, implementing a driver for the Sanyo VPC-G1 and VPC-G200. The driver handles most camera functions, th…

  7. ▲ 23Why Roundabouts Are a Software Engineer's Dream

    A software engineer confesses a soft spot for roundabouts, arguing they solve intersection problems with radical simplicity. Unlike traffic lights, which need sensors that miss motorcycles and bicycl…

  8. ▲ 2351 Civilizations' Creation Myths Mapped on One Interactive World Map

    Sunny Guha's Origin Myth Map plots 51 civilizations across 5 eras and 29 themes, from the Bronze Age to 1500 CE. Users can click any glowing region to read its creation myth, then use the era slider…

  9. ▲ 12Doing Everyone Else's Job Is the Secret to Getting Things Done

    Yosef K. argues that the most effective employees are those who step in to do work that others are supposed to do but won't. Drawing on Intel's early support for its 32-bit CPU in Microsoft's compile…

  10. ▲ 11A childhood stamp album, still opened once every five years

    A Wall Street Journal review of a book on stamp collecting drew a nostalgic response on Hacker News. One commenter recalled joining the USPO's 1800STAMPFUN program as a kid, filling a binder with col…

  11. ▲ 9Datamimic stops your coding agent from inventing its own test world

    DATAMIMIC CE is an MIT-licensed, Python-native engine for deterministic synthetic test data and PII-aware pseudonymization. It ships a CLI and MCP adapter that let AI agents author, verify, and run d…