Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

63 minimaxir 2025-11-13 17:41:33 UTC minimaxir.com Llama Share 10

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, also known as Nano Banana, is a powerful text-to-image model that can generate high-quality images with strong prompt adherence and editing capabilities. The model's multimodal encoder and large context window allow it to handle complex and nuanced prompts, including HTML, JSON, and Markdown, making it a versatile tool for image generation and editing.

Zed is our office

233 sagacity 2025-11-13 16:33:33 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 95

Zed Industries built a collaborative editor to enable seamless teamwork, leveraging CRDTs for conflict-free editing and low latency. The editor features a channel tree for organizing projects, meetings, and personal workspaces, with a flexible structure to accommodate various collaboration needs.

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to de-enshittify the web

62 jmadeano 2025-11-13 16:33:33 UTC tweeks.io Llama Share 53

Here is a preview of what I can do: I'll summarize user input in 2 concise sentences under 200 characters.

GitHub Partial Outage

117 danfritz 2025-11-13 15:33:33 UTC githubstatus.com Full Share 48

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

Rand Paul: Congress bill destroys hemp farmer livelihoods

39 bilsbie 2025-11-13 17:33:33 UTC courier-journal.com Llama Share 4

Sen Rand Paul opposes a hemp industry shutdown due to a low THC limit in a government funding bill. He argues the provision was added without debate, harming farmers and consumers.

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

411 StrangeSound 2025-11-13 09:33:33 UTC checkout.com Llama Share 204

Checkout.com was targeted by extortionists who gained access to a legacy cloud storage system used in 2020. The incident affected less than 25% of merchants, with no payment platform or card number access.

SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

72 meetpateltech 2025-11-13 15:33:33 UTC deepmind.google Llama Share 16

Researchers introduced SIMA 2, a generalist AI that can follow instructions, converse, and improve itself in virtual worlds. SIMA 2's advanced capabilities, powered by Gemini models, enable it to think, reason, and adapt to new environments, marking a significant step towards Artificial General Intelligence.

Blender Lab

133 radeeyate 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC blender.org Llama Share 38

Blender Lab is an innovation space where designers and developers work on challenging projects to keep Blender relevant. It focuses on applied research and academic projects, with guidelines to be defined in 2026.

BAML is hiring compilers/rust engineers (YC W23)

0 2025-11-13 17:33:33 UTC github.com/boundaryml Full Share

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The Useful Personal Computer

29 cfmcdonald 2025-11-13 16:33:33 UTC technicshistory.com Llama Share 0

Computer makers in the 1970s struggled to find a market for their products beyond hobbyists. They created software libraries, but third-party producers filled the gap with business and game software, driving innovation and growth in the industry.

Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)

82 curtistyr 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC github.com/ory Llama Share 54

Ory Kratos is an API-first identity and user management system for cloud native applications. It centralizes login, registration, and profile management flows for services to consume.

Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires

60 synergy20 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC denx.de Llama Share 11

DENX, a pioneer in Open Source and Embedded Linux, wound down operations after 20 years due to voluntary liquidation in July 2025. Former DENX engineers joined NABLA to provide high level support and consulting for Open Source and Embedded Linux.

Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping

7 ChrisArchitect 2025-11-13 17:38:33 UTC blog.google Prefix Share 12

We all love finding the perfect holiday gift, but shopping can often become a chore. Endless scrolling, tracking prices and jumping between tabs — it can feel like work. Our latest advancements in AI and agentic technology can help: Today we’re introducing a major AI shopping update across Google, just in time for this holiday season. Say goodbye to endless filter clicks and picking the ...

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

116 arbol 2025-11-13 15:33:33 UTC prosopo.io Llama Share 82

The Prosopo team migrated from MongoDB Atlas to Hetzner to cut costs by 90% without sacrificing performance or reliability. They set up a self-hosted MongoDB server with a 256GB RAM machine and fast SSDs, reducing their monthly costs from $3,000 to $160.

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off

219 2OEH8eoCRo0 2025-11-13 16:33:33 UTC popularmechanics.com Llama Share 178

Tesla is recalling 6,000 Cybertrucks due to an incorrect primer used on the optional light bar, which may detach and become a projectile. The fix involves adding a mechanical attachment to keep the light bar affixed to the windshield.

Pebble: How to Build a Smartwatch: Software – Setting Expectations and Roadmap

35 teekert 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC ericmigi.com Llama Share 6

The author of the blog post is updating on the Pebble 2 Duo production and shipping, stating that they've manufactured all units and are now shipping them out.

Think in Math. Write in Code

7 alabhyajindal 2025-11-13 17:33:33 UTC jmeiners.com Prefix Share 1

Programmers love to discuss programming languages. We not only debate their technical merits and aesthetic qualities, but they become integrated into our personal identities, along with the values and traits that we associate with them. Some even defend a form of Linguistic Determinism that thinking is confined to what the language makes typable. Since we spend so much time writing code, a ...

Heartbeats in Distributed Systems

55 sebg 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC arpitbhayani.me Llama Share 20

Heartbeat mechanisms in distributed systems involve periodic signals sent from one component to another to indicate its status, allowing for quick failure detection and system reaction. The design of heartbeat mechanisms involves balancing competing concerns such as fast failure detection, network overhead, and sensitivity to transient issues, requiring careful consideration of intervals, ...

Android developer verification: Early access starts

1239 erohead 2025-11-13 01:33:33 UTC android-developers.googleblog.com Llama Share 572

We're introducing developer verification requirements to enhance Android security, addressing diverse user needs and combating aggressive online scams. The new system balances security with accessibility, offering a dedicated account for students and hobbyists and an advanced flow for experienced users to download unverified apps.

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change gets enormous backlash – Neowin

15 OptionOfT 2025-11-13 18:03:33 UTC neowin.net Full Share 0

Human Fovea Detector

390 AbuAssar 2025-11-13 01:33:33 UTC shadertoy.com Full Share 81

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A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics

30 quapster 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 4

Ben Holson issues a challenge to roboticists to push the state of the art in robotic manipulation with 11 Olympic-style events. The first robot to complete each task wins a medal, with the goal of creating a general-purpose manipulator robot that can perform various tasks autonomously.

COBOL to Kotlin via Formal Models (IR and Alloy and Golden Master)

29 marcoeg 2025-11-13 15:33:33 UTC marcoeg.medium.com Llama Share 8

A reproducible path from COBOL to modern code is proposed using formal semantics, not pattern-based rewriting. This approach involves transforming COBOL into an intermediate representation (IR), then into formal models, and finally into modern code, ensuring functional equivalence.

Steam Machine

2512 davikr 2025-11-12 18:33:33 UTC store.steampowered.com Full Share 1184

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Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project

212 uneven9434 2025-11-13 04:33:33 UTC grapheneos.social Llama Share 113

Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to AOSP, bringing a new desktop mode and other changes. GrapheneOS will support it, but early releases may require explicit enabling and setup.

Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption

112 austinallegro 2025-11-13 07:33:33 UTC landaire.net Llama Share 15

The user reverse-engineered the Yaesu FT-70D firmware update process to extract the firmware image, which is likely encrypted. They used a debugger and disassembler to analyze the update utility and identified the decryption algorithm, which involves inflating bytes to bits and using a dynamic key and static lookup tables.

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure

401 robtherobber 2025-11-13 14:33:33 UTC rosalux.de Llama Share 354

The UK's railway privatization in the 1990s led to a complex system with safety and efficiency issues, and ultimately failed to deliver improved services. The industry is now in crisis mode, with a need for democratization, devolution of power, and a clear vision for the future to unlock its potential.

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

309 firexcy 2025-11-12 22:33:33 UTC github.com/homebrew Llama Share 244

Homebrew will deprecate the --no-quarantine flag due to macOS security updates and Intel support ending. This change will provide a safer experience for users and align with Gatekeeper requirements.

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

503 tedsanders 2025-11-12 19:33:33 UTC openai.com Llama Share 639

ChatGPT is upgrading to GPT-5.1 with improved intelligence, communication style, and customization options. The update includes new models, easier tone control, and better instruction following, making ChatGPT more enjoyable and adaptable to users' preferences.

Continuous Autoregressive Language Models

92 Anon84 2025-11-13 07:33:33 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 7

Researchers introduced CALM, a new language model that predicts continuous vectors instead of discrete tokens, reducing generative steps by a factor of K. CALM improves performance-compute trade-off and establishes next-vector prediction as a scalable pathway for ultra-efficient language models.