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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang apologized to staff in a letter, admitting he was unfaithful to his wife and saying his actions hurt her and their children. He said there is no excuse for what he did and expressed deep remorse.

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes offers the world’s largest database of paper airplane designs, paired with easy video tutorials for folding each one. The resource aims to help users learn and build a wide variety of paper planes.

Readers push back on the claim that no one will again build a Wikipedia-like project, citing OpenStreetMap, TV Tropes, fandom wikis and other volunteer crowdsourced efforts that continue and could evolve toward more semantic knowledge systems. They also warn that such projects face long-term strain from younger users’ reliance on corporate app stores, suspicion of libre/altruistic efforts, fewer obvious gaps for newcomers to fill, corporate free-riding and API abuse, and licensing barriers.

Harvest users are reacting to steep new Bending Spoons pricing, with some reporting 8–10x increases or large renewal jumps tied to usage-based charges for users, projects, clients, and billings. Readers describe cancelling and replacing the time-tracking and invoicing tool with self-hosted or custom alternatives, citing broken trust and easier-than-expected SaaS switching.

A discussion around Herb Sutter’s piece on the rift between C++’s creator and its stewards highlights growing doubts about C++’s future, with commenters citing memory safety, AI-assisted rewrites, and weak safe-concurrency support as reasons legacy C++ may be increasingly hard to defend. Others credit Sutter and the C++ committee for foundational work on concurrency and memory models, while debating whether those efforts made parallel programming meaningfully easier.

A security flaw allows any car from a specific brand to be unlocked across most of the world, according to a new disclosure. The author, a longtime owner of the brand who bought a new SUV in 2023, highlights the widespread automotive security risk.

A new GitHub project offers a small LLM inference engine built from scratch, accompanied by more than six hours of YouTube tutorials and 85+ pages of handwritten notes. The resource aims to help developers learn LLM inference fundamentals through hands-on implementation and detailed study materials.

The piece explores the hidden mechanics behind malloc’s deceptively simple interface. Callers request a contiguous block of memory and receive a void pointer, then release it with free, but the article examines what is really happening beneath that abstraction.

The piece revisits Children of Men as one of the 21st century’s best sci-fi films, arguing that its futuristic dystopia works as a mirror for present-day anxieties. It urges readers not to look away from the movie’s stark vision and enduring relevance.

ChatGPT Desktop is reportedly forwarding users' SSH agents to remote machines as a convenience feature, prompting criticism that it removes important security friction. Commenters argue auto-forwarding should require per-request approval or filtering, and recommend hardware-backed keys such as Secure Enclave or YubiKey with fingerprint or touch confirmation. The discussion also highlights broader concerns that local agent guardrails rely on leaky blacklists and broad permissions.

The piece examines the claim that AI is an overvalued bubble, noting that a true collapse would devastate the economy given the trillion-dollar valuations of major AI companies. The author remains skeptical that the AI bubble actually exists, pushing back on the speculative narrative.

A personal-notes piece offers a critique of GPUI, examining the framework's shortcomings from the author's perspective. It is framed as informal observations rather than a formal review, with no broader news context supplied.

A new report finds that about nine out of every ten time capsules go missing. Despite those poor odds, the piece says people shouldn’t be discouraged from creating them.

Psalm 7 has been released, bringing a large set of new features and bug fixes to the PHP security and static analysis tool. The update is detailed in Daniil Gentili’s announcement blog post.

A new analysis of 1,400 Claude Code sessions claims Opus 5.5’s reasoning behavior changed sharply on November 3, even though the model name stayed the same. The findings have reignited questions over whether Opus 5.5 was quietly nerfed.

Readers discussing how to manage AI-agent context across clients and projects largely recommend building custom lightweight harnesses and workflows rather than relying on one tool. Suggested practices include gatekeeper scripts that force wiki/documentation updates, semantic search over project knowledge, commit-linked chats, issue trackers and write-only ledgers for coordination, plus sandboxing agents and keeping granular usage data. Commenters also stress managing one's own attention and mental load, and staying ready to ditch tools as the fast-changing ecosystem evolves.

Researchers have turned silicon wafers into flat ultraviolet focusing mirrors by patterning them with air holes, using metasurface-style phase control. The approach could enable compact UV imaging, spectroscopy, and sensing systems while addressing the strong UV absorption that limits many metasurface materials.

A new guide highlights playful projects for VM/370 Community Edition, the classic IBM mainframe operating system running in emulation. It explores hands-on ways to experiment with big-computer concepts and have fun with a vintage VM/370 system.

Readers discussing whether they still enjoy C++ report mixed feelings: many still value its power, performance, control, and RAII, while others cite decades of cruft, missing features like pattern matching, and slow committee progress. Some longtime C++ developers have migrated to Rust, praising its traits, tooling, and ecosystem, and say returning to C++ is difficult except for maintaining old projects.

The arXiv paper “Next-Concept Modeling” introduces a coarse-to-fine text generation method designed to be fast and parallel. It aims to speed up generation by modeling concepts rather than relying solely on sequential token-by-token output. The work is presented as a new approach for efficient text generation.

South African author Coral Hart has published more than 370 books since February 2025 with the help of artificial intelligence. She passionately defends her AI-assisted process despite facing criticism and threats.

Flide launched as an inference engine for Jev-like decision models, claiming up to 9.5x faster performance. It is pitched as the fastest inference engine for OmniJev/Flide decision models.

A Show HN project demonstrates JavaScript web apps using WASM layout and GPU rendering in just 280 KB. Commenters warn that bypassing the DOM discards browser/OS features like password-manager autofill, user dictionaries, IME support, and selectable content, creating inconsistent UX, while others are excited about the approach despite demo performance and WebGPU compatibility concerns.

A security researcher has documented how a Microsoft-signed shim can be borrowed to abuse Secure Boot protections on corporate hardware, potentially enabling boot-level attacks. The write-up details the technique and its implications for organizations relying on Secure Boot to lock down devices.

A discussion around a piece on email spun into a broader reflection on the internet as a collection of human edge cases. Readers expressed anxiety that undisclosed AI-generated text is converging online writing toward an average of pre-2023 thought and style, diminishing the idiosyncratic voice that makes personal sites feel magical.

A DIY quasi-logarithmic kitchen timer aims to simplify cooking timing for households that already own several appliances with built-in digital timers. The project focuses on a dedicated timer with a non-linear control scheme for quickly selecting common cooking intervals.

Forrest Welborn spent three decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin Yogurt Shop murders and was finally exonerated this year, yet he says he still doesn’t feel free. The article explores the lasting toll of living under suspicion and how exoneration has not erased the trauma.

The Qlobe is a rotating Ruby quine created for RubyConf as a “global” alternative to quines specialized for Japanese. It uses self-referential code and string manipulation to output a rotated version of itself.

A new Show HN project introduces HACI, a compact, bio-inspired fully distributed algorithm for extracting edges from RGB images. The implementation is available on GitHub under RenderBear/haci.

SultanC is an Arabic-first, self-hosting systems programming language with an English surface, ownership safety, and pattern matching. It targets native ARM64/x86-64, supports LLVM cross-compilation and WebAssembly, and can be tried in the browser.