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Show HN: Camera Sun – Fixing the iPhone's Camera App

3•zahirbmirza•1h ago
The most annoying issue with taking photos on iPhone Pros, for me, is the shutter. The physical buttons only work if the phone is in the "right" orientation.

This is especially an issue on manual/pro camera apps. Unlike on DSLRs, you can't use multiple fingers on just one hand easily to take photos at particular settings.

This is where the idea for my app came from... How could I adjust exposure/focus/iso and shoot with just my thumb? Ie controlling from my hand position whenever I take horizontal or vertical photos. I have designed Camera Sun so that you can swipe over the shutter area, as soon as have your settings adjusted, to just snap your pic.

If you want to see it in action without downloading...

https://youtu.be/Av4eDk_HCno?is=tiLXIsCB0NgHRLby

This was a token heavy (ie expensive) project. I burned through multiple limits. Most annoyingly, Cursor defaulted to Grok (without warning) when faced with Fable Limits, and Grok could not manage with the tasks. Im sure there would have been away around this. I think for my next project I will be moving away from Cursor.

My lack of regret, however, is that I, at least, no longer have to complain about the shutter button.

On the Apple App Store

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/camera-sun-pro-camera/id679683...

Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2026/am-i-the-problem/
1•signa11•50s ago•0 comments

What We Talk About When We Talk About Bruce Lee

https://decodingvibes.com/blog/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-bruce-lee/
1•altmanaltman•1m ago•0 comments

Shadow AI is a hidden risk to your business

https://proton.me/business/blog/shadow-ai
3•devonnull•3m ago•0 comments

I build the Tinder to choose food

https://beta.platetale.com/
1•anhyourdream•4m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Economic Index

https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
2•ronfriedhaber•5m ago•0 comments

Swift-Gigatoken

https://github.com/1amageek/swift-gigatoken
1•frizlab•10m ago•0 comments

The Idea of an Immutable Social Media

https://citizendot.github.io/articles/the-idea-of-immutable-social-media/
3•CITIZENDOT•16m ago•0 comments

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-pa...
5•bookofjoe•17m ago•1 comments

Pneumatic tube mail in New York City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_York_City
4•gkaemmer•20m ago•0 comments

MacGregor the Bridge Builder

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/macgregor-the-bridge-builder
1•Ariarule•21m ago•0 comments

I gave Claude complete ownership over a website

https://freebot.dev/
2•BenediktHolm•23m ago•2 comments

Attack Techniques: Fake Captive Portals

https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/03/attack-techniques-fake-captive-portals/
2•rowbin•25m ago•0 comments

Improving Heuristics

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
2•ingve•29m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/
3•doener•31m ago•0 comments

How to write production-quality code with AI

https://curtispoe.org/paad/
3•Ovid•33m ago•1 comments

YouTube Mistakenly Penalizes Kurzgesagt for AI-Generated Slop

https://kotaku.com/youtube-mistakenly-penalizes-popular-science-channel-kurzgesagt-for-ai-generat...
9•guilamu•36m ago•0 comments

Instagram's AI Rewards Human Attention

https://ai-updates.net/instagram-ai-human-attention-content/
2•ashurandi•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Live beach data for Nova Scotia

https://whenshouldigotothebeach.ca/
1•recvonline•36m ago•0 comments

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? [pdf]

https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/phys419/sp2021/Gettier.pdf
3•jsLavaGoat•37m ago•1 comments

You have to do above average

https://kipsmiling.com/you-have-to-do-above-average-actions/
2•imsurajkadam•38m ago•0 comments

Understanding std:counting_semaphore and std:binary_semaphore from C++20

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/semaphore/
1•jandeboevrie•39m ago•0 comments

Reservation Apps Have Made Getting into a Restaurant a Nightmare

https://www.wsj.com/business/restaurant-reservation-apps-30a29e6b
2•pseudolus•39m ago•2 comments

The Right Harness Is All You Need

https://hkinsley.com/reflections/right-harness-is-all-you-need
1•bjclark•41m ago•0 comments

OpenSSH Key Structure Guide

https://sshref.dev/
1•fanf2•42m ago•0 comments

A game made of sine waves (YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr3VsZYQy4s
1•hanifbbz•42m ago•0 comments

Abolish the Top Ten Books List

https://thewalrus.ca/abolish-the-top-ten-books-list/
2•pseudolus•43m ago•0 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%2...
3•pseudolus•46m ago•0 comments

One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment

https://www.wired.com/story/moonshot-kimi-k3-ai-model-escape-sandbox/
2•gpi•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Per-module tags and releases for Terraform monorepos

https://github.com/techpivot/terraform-module-releaser
1•virgofx•48m ago•0 comments

Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass $22B Windfall

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-north-korea-windfall/
4•paulpauper•49m ago•0 comments