top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-20

Nano Banana Pro

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

3 months ago

1275 upvotes – 685 comments

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

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

3 months ago

886 upvotes – 558 comments

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

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

3 months ago

838 upvotes – 885 comments

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

3 months ago

640 upvotes – 242 comments

Red Alert 2 in web browser

https://chronodivide.com/

3 months ago

497 upvotes – 148 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

3 months ago

384 upvotes – 189 comments

'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

3 months ago

376 upvotes – 149 comments

Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification

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

3 months ago

368 upvotes – 155 comments

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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

3 months ago

361 upvotes – 143 comments

Over-regulation is doubling the cost

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

3 months ago

336 upvotes – 688 comments

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos

3 months ago

315 upvotes – 165 comments

PHP 8.5

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

3 months ago

244 upvotes – 190 comments

France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?

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

3 months ago

229 upvotes – 112 comments

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

3 months ago

225 upvotes – 180 comments

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

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

3 months ago

222 upvotes – 26 comments

Basalt Woven Textile

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

3 months ago

220 upvotes – 139 comments

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

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

3 months ago

216 upvotes – 228 comments

Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory

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

3 months ago

210 upvotes – 242 comments

The Lions Operating System

https://lionsos.org

3 months ago

209 upvotes – 81 comments

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market

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

3 months ago

206 upvotes – 225 comments
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