top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-20

Nano Banana Pro

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

9 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/

9 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

9 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

9 months ago

640 upvotes – 242 comments

Red Alert 2 in web browser

https://chronodivide.com/

9 months ago

497 upvotes – 148 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

9 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

9 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

9 months ago

368 upvotes – 155 comments

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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

9 months ago

361 upvotes – 143 comments

Over-regulation is doubling the cost

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

9 months ago

336 upvotes – 688 comments

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos

9 months ago

315 upvotes – 165 comments

PHP 8.5

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

9 months ago

244 upvotes – 190 comments

France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?

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

9 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

9 months ago

225 upvotes – 180 comments

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

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

9 months ago

222 upvotes – 26 comments

Basalt Woven Textile

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

9 months ago

220 upvotes – 139 comments

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

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

9 months ago

216 upvotes – 228 comments

Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory

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

9 months ago

210 upvotes – 242 comments

The Lions Operating System

https://lionsos.org

9 months ago

209 upvotes – 81 comments

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market

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

9 months ago

206 upvotes – 225 comments

Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win

9 months ago

204 upvotes – 130 comments

Kagi Assistants

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-assistants

9 months ago

180 upvotes – 116 comments

New Glenn Update

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-upgraded-engines-subcooled-components-drive-enhanced-performance

9 months ago

179 upvotes – 147 comments

Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite

https://www.morling.dev/blog/building-durable-execution-engine-with-sqlite/

9 months ago

178 upvotes – 54 comments

210 IQ Is Not Enough

https://taylor.town/iq-not-enough

9 months ago

177 upvotes – 279 comments

Go Cryptography State of the Union

https://words.filippo.io/2025-state/

9 months ago

174 upvotes – 58 comments

Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)

https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Finally_run_Docker_containers_natively_in_Proxmox_9.1.html

9 months ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/mozilla-says-its-finally-done-with-two-faced-onerep/

9 months ago

124 upvotes – 72 comments

Students fight back over course taught by AI

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence

9 months ago

123 upvotes – 137 comments

Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063

9 months ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

9 months ago

113 upvotes – 58 comments

RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-loathesome-edits-cdc-website-now-falsely-links-vaccines-and-autism/

9 months ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly

https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/can-ai-models-be-jailbroken-to-phish

9 months ago

101 upvotes – 42 comments

Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]

https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf

9 months ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/

9 months ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand

https://www.linuxcareers.com/resources/blog/2025/11/linux-career-opportunities-in-2025-skills-in-high-demand/

9 months ago

93 upvotes – 87 comments

DOS Days – Laptop Displays

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/laptop_displays.php

9 months ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

https://githut.info/

9 months ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours (2001)

https://www.in-ulm.de/%7Emascheck/various/shebang/

9 months ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/actors

9 months ago

84 upvotes – 162 comments

Show HN: Awesome J2ME

https://github.com/hstsethi/awesome-j2me

9 months ago

79 upvotes – 55 comments

50th Anniversary of BitBLT

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fvzappa/115574872559813280

9 months ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995394

9 months ago

66 upvotes – 68 comments

Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/airlines-virgin-australia-qantas-ban-power-banks/106033982

9 months ago

66 upvotes – 74 comments

Comic Code Reviews

https://www.jona.ca/2025/11/comic-code-reviews.html

9 months ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

Historically Accurate Airport Dioramas by AV Pro Designs

https://www.core77.com/posts/138995/Historically-Accurate-Airport-Dioramas-by-AV-Pro-Designs

9 months ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Implementation of a Java Processor on a FPGA (2016)

https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/electricaleng_theses/337/

9 months ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total

https://electrek.co/2025/11/17/tesla-robotaxi-had-3-more-crashes-now-7-total/

9 months ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

Debunking the Myths of the HBO Chernobyl series (2023)

https://blog.osm-ai.net/investigation/2023/01/05/hbo-chernobyl-myth.html

9 months ago

57 upvotes – 73 comments

Workday to acquire Pipedream

https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-11-19-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Pipedream

9 months ago

55 upvotes – 53 comments

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/

9 months ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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