top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-20

Nano Banana Pro

https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/

9 months ago

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/

9 months ago

CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

9 months ago

Microsoft makes Zork open-source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

9 months ago

Red Alert 2 in web browser

https://chronodivide.com/

9 months ago

Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

9 months ago

'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5564064/calvin-and-hobbes-bill-watterson-40-years-comic-strip-lee-salem

9 months ago

Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory

9 months ago

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

http://geacron.com/home-en/

9 months ago

Over-regulation is doubling the cost

https://rein.pk/over-regulation-is-doubling-the-cost

9 months ago

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos

9 months ago

PHP 8.5

https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-85

9 months ago

France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115584160910016309

9 months ago

Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-total-coverage-for-ubuntu-lts-releases-to-15-years-with-legacy-add-on

9 months ago

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2025/11/19/encryption-in-duckdb

9 months ago

Basalt Woven Textile

https://materialdistrict.com/material/basalt-woven-textile/

9 months ago

NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]

https://www.ntsb.gov/Documents/Prelimiary%20Report%20DCA26MA024.pdf

9 months ago

Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory

https://element.io/blog/verifying-your-devices-is-becoming-mandatory-2/

9 months ago

The Lions Operating System

https://lionsos.org

9 months ago

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market

https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banished-bottom-of-the-housing

9 months ago