Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

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X-01 Missile spirals as it flies and is ready to take down your next target! Vapor is one of the easiest planes on this website, and it flies really well!

Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia

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The Yongle encyclopedia, a 15th-century reference work, was surpassed by Wikipedia after just six years. Today, Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia with over 30 billion words in more than 300 languages.

Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present

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Children of Men (2006) is a thought-provoking sci-fi film that explores the consequences of human infertility and societal collapse, offering a powerful commentary on politics, power, and hope. The movie's innovative cinematography and direction create a visceral experience that draws viewers into its bleak yet hopeful world.

Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers

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The VM/370 Community Edition OS can be run on emulated or real machines, offering a set of improvements and fixes based on IBM's original VM/370 release. Users can interact with the system using x3270 emulator, edit files with EE editor, and access various features such as disk management and file transfer.

What is malloc doing, anyway?

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The malloc function in GNU libc uses a combination of syscalls and bookkeeping to manage memory. It can be optimized by using a bump allocator, which moves the program break up instead of requesting new memory from the kernel.

Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering

Human-Directed Agentic Engineering (HDAE) successfully built a Rust-first x86-64 kernel that boots and runs Linux programs, demonstrating rapid integration of established systems mechanisms. However, the prototype has narrow compatibility and hardware coverage, lacks an independent security audit, and is not production-ready.

Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation

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A new model called Next-Concept Modeling (NCM) is introduced, which combines coarse-to-fine framework and parallel sampling to improve generation speed. NCM achieves better generative perplexity than diffusion models while running significantly faster on various tasks.

Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing

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A 1976 Bicentennial Wagon Train project aimed to commemorate the US founding by retracing historic pioneer roads, but its time capsule of over 22 million signatures vanished. The event was a huge success despite financial and logistical issues, with participants forming lasting bonds.

KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

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KetchUp is a free, open-source 3D modeling app for woodworking and furniture design. It allows users to create and edit models with various tools and features before exporting them as OBJ files or saving locally.

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

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A security researcher collaborated with Sam Curry to test the connected car system of a major automaker, finding vulnerabilities in their OpenIDM instance. They exploited weaknesses in authentication and authorization mechanisms to gain remote access to vehicles across Australia.

How Australia played the first music on a computer

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The CSIRAC, Australia's fourth digital computer, played music in 1951 using a speaker and raw pulses from the computer data bus. It was a groundbreaking achievement by programmer Geoff Hill, who used his musical knowledge to create steady pitches and play popular tunes of the day.

6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here

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This project teaches LLM inference from first principles using a C++ and CUDA engine, explaining the process between prompt loading to generated token output. The code includes various batching strategies for efficient processing of multiple requests concurrently.

I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists

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The author argues that the AI industry is not a bubble, despite concerns about its high valuation and spending. They point to companies' profitable business models and ability to pay off debt as evidence of their financial sustainability.

Declarative Dragging

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Researchers created a system called D2, which allows users to make elements draggable by specifying future states without writing code. This declarative dragging approach enables smooth and responsive interactions in various applications, including math games and programming interfaces.

Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software

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Psalm 7 is a security analysis tool for PHP, offering improved performance and coverage. It now includes taint tracking, purity modeling, and graph-based dead code detection to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Chimera Vocal Synth

CHIMERA: a physically modelled voice synthesizer. Every sound comes from a simulated airway.

Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC

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Microsoft's consumer mail service is rejecting emails from domains without a DMARC record, starting November 5, 2026. Adding a single TXT record with v=DMARC1; p=none can fix the issue and improve domain security.

Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster

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Flide is a fast inference infrastructure for Jev-style decision models, offering exact state forking that accelerates inference by up to 9.5 times compared to vLLM and SGLang.

Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming

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Dux Modular Shell is a fast, customizable file manager with features like tabs and search. It's free to use, but donations support its development and releases.

Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer

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The author built a digital timer with an analog display and adjustable knob, using a repurposed vintage panel meter. The device features a logarithmic scale for precision and legibility, with customizable settings via an encoder.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

Sorry

The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

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The writer acknowledges infidelity, hurting his family and damaging their life together, taking full responsibility and apologizing. He also commits to regaining trust with his family and earning back confidence from NVIDIA colleagues, board members, partners, and shareholders.

Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware

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The author shares their research on secure boot, a feature that was initially misunderstood as locking down the operating system. They explain how it actually ensures the integrity of the booting OS and can be bypassed with Microsoft-signed keys or custom enrollment.

ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines

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Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

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quick test on a real bug showed Opus 5.5 high jumping into action too quickly, getting confused and being unable to find a fix after 3 full hours. meanwhile Opus 5.5 xhigh takes a moment to think, finds a fix after a few minutes.

Nvidia was in 1 in 11 startup rounds over $100M last year

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NVIDIA had the most venture firm investments at 79, followed by Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. NVIDIA also led or joined in 65 rounds alone without its venture arm NVentures.

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

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This project demonstrates that a 64 GB CPU can run large MoE models, such as 284B DeepSeek-V4-Flash and 30B Nemotron-3.5-A3B, at full context using zero GPUs.

Ur-Nammu Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance

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Ur-Nammu, founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, initiated the Sumerian Renaissance and created the oldest extant law code in the world. He ruled from circa 2112-2094 BCE and was known for his wise governance and cultural achievements.

Writing as a thinking tool

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