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Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/
85•ridesisapis•34m ago•10 comments

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-t...
69•zdw•1h ago•28 comments

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
45•zdw•1h ago•6 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
92•LowLevelMahn•3h ago•24 comments

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/pull/249
34•gr4vityWall•1h ago•18 comments

CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/
356•msalsas•7h ago•76 comments

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

https://startupwiki.tech/
41•shpran•2h ago•8 comments

S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026

https://escurves.com/
20•sapal•3d ago•2 comments

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/ember-hackernews
42•sylwester•1h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C

https://github.com/oraziorillo/microcrad
33•oraziorillo•3d ago•6 comments

Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios

https://vawaa.com/
31•karakoram•3h ago•2 comments

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

https://www.argusred.com/cli
4•dk189•4h ago•0 comments

Web Browsers on PDAS

https://vale.rocks/posts/pda-browsers
30•robin_reala•4h ago•11 comments

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
74•farhadhf•7h ago•53 comments

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

https://bootimus.com
83•car•7h ago•31 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
364•moultano•15h ago•92 comments

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559
5•JumpCrisscross•6h ago•4 comments

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vpn-ban-update-uk-households-34141063
208•iamnothere•4h ago•213 comments

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260617032207.htm
29•nryoo•1h ago•7 comments

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-expor...
116•Brajeshwar•4h ago•50 comments

Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

15•ciwolex•47m ago•16 comments

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/
262•theanonymousone•13h ago•90 comments

Mencius (2016)

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iuswrrest/api/core/bitstreams/265d73a0-6bfa-45df-92ff-4e7d3f8be4b1/co...
16•jruohonen•2d ago•1 comments

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-11s-new-media-player-uses-35x-more-ram-charges-for-...
122•tcp_handshaker•4h ago•58 comments

Cargo-Geiger

https://github.com/geiger-rs/cargo-geiger
24•tosh•3h ago•6 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
275•Pamar•2d ago•130 comments

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

https://www.reuters.com/world/ubisofts-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-plane-crash-2026-06-20/
106•drayfield•4h ago•55 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
439•oshrimpton•1d ago•211 comments

Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-efficient-dispatch-tables
35•firephox•3d ago•14 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
505•danabramov•1d ago•287 comments
Open in hackernews

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
90•LowLevelMahn•3h ago

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LowLevelMahn•3h ago
Playable DOS version available

First step was the full reverse to assembler, second step is to convert the assembler to binary equal compiled C code, all this still on DOS until no assembler code is left, then the porting to Linux,Windows will start

Reversing tends to bring in new bugs and its not easy to find all bugs in such old and reversed code - but so far everything seems to work

try finding open bugs if you got version 451.03 of F-15 around combined with Dosbox or a real DOS

find latest DOS release here: https://github.com/neuviemeporte/f15se2-re/releases

the f15_se2-*.zip file contains the replacement executables for the DOS game

The airforce needs YOU!

yepyoukno•2h ago
Nice work!

I’m not sure you should beat yourself up too much for a Linix* port, emulators are so well supported and ubiquitous, if it works there (not everything does), call it a win!

I use Lutris (https://lutris.net/) for its ease of use.

I can see your a “low level mahn” and this may be more of a quest for you than playing a cool retro game.

Any which way, GREAT WORK!!!!

LowLevelMahn•1h ago
its mostly the combined work of AJenbo, neuviemeporte and others - my part is very small, fixing some compilation problems with newer compilers and spreading the news

C source needs to get compiled on every platform reachable - that is a must :)

skerit•1h ago
I'm currently reverse engineering a few games too. It's quite easy with AI now. But I'm worried about the legality of it all. Any thoughts on this?
habagav•1h ago
You could do “clean room engineering” approach where the reversing agent generates a specification from its findings, and then have a separate agent reimplement the code without seeing the original binaries/code.

You’d just have to make sure the specification doesn’t include actual source snippets (the AI will try this if you don’t specify). Pseudo code would be sufficient I guess where necessary.

alberto-m•1h ago
Unless you develop your AI agent from scratch or you clone a never-released game, it would be extremely easy for the rightholders to claim that both agents have most certainly ingested the binary during their training phase, since it's well known that the hyperscalers have pirated everything that could be pirated to train their LLMs. Which is why malus.sh is a parody, not a real service.

One should be honest about what one builds. The F-15 project does that: the aim is the reconstruction of the original game, down to the opcodes; on the other hands it requires the user to provide the original game assets.

rhplus•40m ago
Images, music, video, and text would all be under copyright, while characters and logos may be registered trademarks.
mikerg87•2h ago
I posted this to twosopbts.com so that one more retro gaming community will know of the call
cf100clunk•2h ago
> twosopbts.com

I'm not getting DNS NX results.

slater•2h ago
https://twostopbits.com/item?id=9081
Waterluvian•2h ago
Does AI fit well in trying to reason about the structure of a decompiled project when you lack symbol names?

This isn’t my wheelhouse but I was surprised just how well AI could figure out the intent of the structure of some JavaScript where I had no source maps.

AJenbo•1h ago
Yes it's very helpful
louwrentius•2h ago
I've played this game so much on a Laser (Dutch computer brand) 286 with VGA monochrome screen, in the early '90s.
imrehg•2h ago
Oh, this was one that I played a lot as a kid! (Alongside F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter - the two that apparently came before and after this game - TIL, and to a lesser extent F-14 Tomcat)

I think, this needs the original game files to run, if I read things correctly. So probably just gonna read the dev journals, rather than fly this particular bird again...

sourcegrift•1h ago
Aren't these names trademarked? I can imagine lockheed selling the rights for a side income lol
alberto-m•1h ago
The dev blog is one of the best retro-reversing journals you can find. Happy reading!
smrtinsert•2h ago
Man I loved this game. My friend and I would split responsibility and share the keyboard. One did the firing other the navigating
bigmattystyles•1h ago
If it's the game I'm thinking of, floppy copies were going around my middle school in France at the time but this was a game that without the manual, good luck even getting the plane off the ground. I seem to recall a mode where you started out in the air. Fun times.
shdh•1h ago
I never played this, but I did play Janes F/A-18, was a great game
gmerc•48m ago
It’s ridiculously easy to port games now.

https://robin.tooclever.org took less than a day in API time

aiponzischeme•21m ago
If it's so easy, then why don't you do it and build a name for yourself? I think it's maybe easier to shill random tools and be a hackernews webshit.
gmerc•18m ago
Calm down babe, I’ve been doing game disassembly, emulation and ports for a few decades by now. It’s just a fact that it has become ridiculously easy with top end models, because they locate every know piece of information out there. Can’t deny it.