top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-13

Android developer verification: Early access starts

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html

3 months ago

1362 upvotes – 676 comments

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/

3 months ago

887 upvotes – 236 comments

Zed is our office

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office

3 months ago

627 upvotes – 331 comments

Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs

https://www.checkout.com/blog/protecting-our-merchants-standing-up-to-extortion

3 months ago

622 upvotes – 284 comments

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

3 months ago

589 upvotes – 264 comments

Human Fovea Detector

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM

3 months ago

492 upvotes – 99 comments

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure

https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53917/britains-railway-privatization-was-an-abject-failure

3 months ago

474 upvotes – 463 comments

My dad could still be alive, but he's not

https://www.jenn.site/my-dad-could-still-be-alive-but-hes-not/

3 months ago

456 upvotes – 303 comments

Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-lands-new-glenn-rocket-booster-on-second-try/

3 months ago

445 upvotes – 300 comments

Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/12/meta-just-killed-native-whatsapp-on-windows-11-now-it-opens-webview-uses-1gb-ram-all-the-time/

3 months ago

436 upvotes – 392 comments

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html

3 months ago

418 upvotes – 412 comments

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

3 months ago

376 upvotes – 283 comments

Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill

https://hightimes.com/news/politics/hemp-ban-hidden-inside-government-shutdown-bill/

3 months ago

354 upvotes – 558 comments

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding

3 months ago

351 upvotes – 213 comments

How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-ncaa-basketball

3 months ago

342 upvotes – 86 comments

Blender Lab

https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/

3 months ago

290 upvotes – 50 comments

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a69384091/cybertruck-lightbar-recall/

3 months ago

278 upvotes – 289 comments

Hack Club: A story in three acts (a.k.a., the shit sandwich)

https://kys.llc/blog/my-hackclub-story

3 months ago

277 upvotes – 93 comments

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark

https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polars

3 months ago

263 upvotes – 107 comments

We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner

https://prosopo.io/blog/we-cut-our-mongodb-costs-by-90-percent/

3 months ago

261 upvotes – 205 comments
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