Hacker News Digest

· 6 Hacker News

  1. ▲ 482Nvidia Moves to Oust Its Own CEO Jensen Huang

    Hacker News commenters react with disbelief to reports that Nvidia is preparing to remove CEO Jensen Huang. Speculation centers on timing: the move follows a New York Times story about a second affai…

  2. ▲ 44Stela boots macOS on ordinary x86-64 PCs by translating arm64 on the fly

    Stela is a UEFI boot program that lets x86-64 machines run Apple Silicon software. It combines an ahead-of-time and just-in-time compiler that translates over 3,000 AArch64 instruction encodings to x…

  3. ▲ 21Sierra On-Line: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Gaming Legend

    Sierra On-Line, founded by Ken and Roberta Williams in 1979, defined the graphic adventure genre with King's Quest and later hits like Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and Half-Life. The company laun…

  4. ▲ 11Chrome's Modern Web Guidance 1.0 now teaches coding agents to write better web code — and Firefox and Edge are joining

    Chrome released Modern Web Guidance 1.0, a set of skills that embeds web platform expertise, best practices, and Baseline compatibility data into coding agents. The update adds a codebase modernizati…

  5. ▲ 10Brad Bird's Iron Giant was a 3D character built to feel hand-drawn

    The Iron Giant's Giant was always meant to be a 3D character living seamlessly in a 2D world. Brad Bird's team built tools like Gartoons to give his lines a wobbly, hand-drawn irregularity, printed 3…

  6. ▲ 4He built a CNC plasma cutter that survives high-frequency start by ditching USB for WiFi

    High-frequency start plasma cutters throw off enough electromagnetic interference to disconnect a CNC controller's USB serial link, even though the motion controller keeps running. The author acciden…