Hacker News: hturan

New comment by hturan in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

hturan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:26:33 +0000

DroidDeck (https://github.com/The412Banner/DroidDeck, and things like GameNative) have been huge for Android. Compatibility is fantastic, and you can run most games >3 years old at respectable frame rates on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 handhelds.

I'm sure if this leads to a full CFW environment people will port it over.

New comment by hturan in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

hturan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:32:00 +0000

Sounds interesting!

So far most of my automation has been optical (tweaking display output to show correctly under a lens with odd optical characteristics, hard to simulate computationally), so pointing cameras at the device and letting the LLM iterate and tune display output has been useful.

As with any automation, it all depends on scale. Setting up a harness to repeatedly mess with microSD cards seems way more prone to failure (and false positives) than just doing it yourself, but if you're testing thousands of devices, would probably be worthwhile.

New comment by hturan in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

hturan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:07:01 +0000

Totally, convenience always wins. I think this is more of a hardware sales issue for Nintendo though — if what I understand is true, I'd bet that we see Switch 2 games running on other systems before we see a CFW/decrypt-encrypt stack for running pirated games on the Switch 2 itself.

New comment by hturan in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

hturan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:05:41 +0000

Ah, you're right! Depends on their generosity, but I'd imagine piracy and running exclusives on non-Nintendo hardware is more of a risk to their business than a bootROM exploit.

New comment by hturan in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

hturan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:40:51 +0000

Incredible all around.

If this is true decrypted `fs` r/w, I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing Switch 2 game dumps appear in a few hours. Given the world of recomps/decomps we now live in, that would mean console exclusives playable on arbitrary hardware (a worst-case scenario for Nintendo). We've already seen things like Tears of the Kingdom running at 60fps natively on an iPhone.

Giving LLMs arms and eyes via KVM (or webcam) is a very strong paradigm for this sort of hardware work, as it allows things to be parallelised and run 24/7. Highly recommend people play with this more (to less nefarious ends!) when working on firmware/hardware for external devices.

Worth noting too that this would have easily fetched >$50k via Nintendo's HackerOne (https://hackerone.com/nintendo).

New comment by hturan in "Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation"

hturan — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:18:31 +0000

I might be wrong, but you might need need (at least) a 23x23 LED matrix to have a white border around the outside to give it the contrast needed (the "quiet zone", since QR data is black).

New comment by hturan in "My insulin pump controller has a bug"

hturan — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:37:22 +0000

For those unaware, misjudging a dose of rapid-acting insulin by even a few units can prove fatal. Can’t fathom expecting a quarter of a unit and getting 100x the amount.

Exploring EXIF

hturan — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:48:00 +0000

Article URL: https://hturan.com/writing/exploring-exif

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37178367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hturan in "James Webb Space Telescope White House Briefing"

hturan — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:36:54 +0000

https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7JJ29QMHNZKDK9JC7M4G47T.tif

Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

hturan — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 22:50:11 +0000

Article URL: https://hturan.com/writing/apple-watch-continuous-glucose-monitoring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31614694

Points: 257

# Comments: 93

Visualizing Complex Numbers Using GLSL

hturan — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://hturan.com/writing/complex-numbers-glsl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30897381

Points: 3

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New comment by hturan in "“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved"

hturan — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:27:45 +0000

Perplex City was great, thanks so much for all you did on it! Fondly remember the community that built up around solving these. I lucked in to being the first to solve one of the silvers (Differently Lethal), and remember all the efforts to solve this one back in the day.

Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook

hturan — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:09:16 +0000

Article URL: https://uploadvr.com/palmer-luckey-departs-facebook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13998486

Points: 30

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Storehouse shutting down

hturan — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:44:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.storehouse.co/more-info

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11895291

Points: 4

# Comments: 1