Nano Banana Pro

889 meetpateltech 2025-11-20 16:00:07 UTC blog.google Llama Share 547

Nano Banana Pro is a new image generation and editing model that uses Gemini 3's state-of-the-art reasoning to visualize information and create more helpful content. It offers advanced creative controls, text rendering, and multilingual support for creating detailed and expressive images.

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

521 abraham 2025-11-20 18:00:07 UTC blog.google Llama Share 320

Google introduced Quick Share compatibility with AirDrop for easier file transfer between iPhones and Android devices. This feature starts rolling out today to the Pixel 10 family with strong security safeguards.

FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices

98 open-paren 2025-11-20 23:00:07 UTC fex-emu.com Llama Share 32

FEX allows running x86 apps on ARM64 Linux devices with broad compatibility and API call forwarding. It features a recompiler, system call translation, and a user-friendly GUI for tweaking performance settings.

Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure

47 viraptor 2025-11-21 00:00:07 UTC semicomplete.com Llama Share 23

The author of xdotool, a UI automation tool, discusses how Wayland's elimination of X11 features has caused fragmentation and made it difficult to achieve common tasks like screen sharing and remote desktop. The author expresses frustration with the current state of Wayland and wonders if it's worth continuing to support xdotool given the lack of a unified protocol.

Why top firms fire good workers

34 hhs 2025-11-21 01:00:07 UTC rochester.edu Llama Share 14

Elite firms' "revolving door" culture is a rational way to signal talent and boost profits by retaining top performers and letting go of slightly lower-skilled employees. This process helps maintain the firm's reputation and rewards true talent, allowing workers to command higher fees after leaving the firm.

New Glenn Update

123 rbanffy 2025-11-20 22:00:07 UTC blueorigin.com Full Share 61

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New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

150 kasajian 2025-11-20 21:00:07 UTC github.com/ravynsoft Llama Share 66

ravynOS is a new open source OS project that aims to provide a similar experience to macOS on x86-64 systems. It builds on FreeBSD and supports macOS applications and folder layouts.

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

144 chmaynard 2025-11-20 20:00:07 UTC duckdb.org Llama Share 16

DuckDB v1.4 supports database encryption capabilities using AES-GCM and AES-CTR ciphers. Encryption has a minimal performance impact, making it suitable for real-world database workloads.

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

147 gregsadetsky 2025-11-20 19:00:07 UTC ntsb.gov Llama Share 162

A UPS MD-11F cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on November 4, 2025, killing 3 crew members and 11 people on the ground. The investigation found that the left engine and pylon separated from the wing due to fatigue cracks and overstress failure, leading to a loss of control and subsequent crash.

Over-regulation is doubling the cost

87 bilsbie 2025-11-20 23:00:07 UTC rein.pk Llama Share 120

The author, a successful entrepreneur, is frustrated with regulatory bottlenecks hindering the growth of hardtech companies, which are crucial for climate fixes and US manufacturing.

The Lions Operating System

127 plunderer 2025-11-20 19:00:07 UTC lionsos.org Llama Share 28

LionsOS is an operating system based on seL4, aiming for performance, security, and reliability. It's a composable system with custom components joined using Microkit, allowing for specific task-based OS creation.

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

53 tonyhb 2025-11-20 22:00:07 UTC githut.info Llama Share 21

GitHut visualizes programming language usage on GitHub, analyzing 3.4 million users and 3.4 million repositories. It uses GitHub Archive data, updated quarterly, to rank languages by activity.

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

582 jjwiseman 2025-11-20 20:00:07 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 673

The US Border Patrol is secretly monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide using a predictive intelligence program that flags suspicious travel patterns. This program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and arrested.

He built underground maze of light-filled earth homes in CA Sierras [video]

22 surprisetalk 2025-11-21 01:00:07 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 8

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles

239 ramimac 2025-11-20 17:00:07 UTC joshua.hu Llama Share 89

The user reported a security issue to Okta's auth0/nextjs-auth0 project, but the maintainer used AI to generate a response and incorrectly attributed the user's contribution. The maintainer also failed to fix the attribution mistake and released new versions of the software despite the user's concerns about the vulnerability's severity.

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

39 mryall 2025-11-20 23:00:07 UTC abc.net.au Llama Share 36

Australian airlines will ban portable power banks from December 1 due to safety concerns over lithium battery fires. Passengers will be limited to two power banks, each under 160 watt-hours, in cabin baggage.

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market

168 barry-cotter 2025-11-20 16:00:07 UTC ryanpuzycki.com Llama Share 190

The YMCA and other SROs provided affordable housing for low-income individuals, but were destroyed by urban renewal and zoning laws, leading to modern-day homelessness. Cities can now convert obsolete office space into inexpensive rooms, but many restrictions and laws prohibit this, making it difficult to address the housing crisis.

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards

165 tagyro 2025-11-20 16:00:07 UTC mobomaps.com Full Share 30

Microsoft makes Zork open-source

474 tabletcorry 2025-11-20 19:00:07 UTC opensource.microsoft.com Llama Share 198

Zork's text-based world was made possible by the Z-Machine, a custom-built engine that allowed for cross-platform play. The team at Infocom preserved the game's source code and now it's available under the MIT License for study and education.

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board

207 pegor 2025-11-20 14:00:07 UTC github.com/pegork Llama Share 31

The f32 is an ultra-compact ESP32 development board that mounts behind a USB-C receptacle, powered by the ESP32-C3FH4 microcontroller. It's designed for research and has limited GPIO, making it suitable for WiFi/web development.

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

252 capgre 2025-11-20 13:00:07 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 135

Researchers found that poetic prompts can effectively "jailbreak" large language models with high success rates, outperforming non-poetic baselines. This vulnerability suggests fundamental limitations in current safety mechanisms and alignment methods.

Measuring Latency (2015)

11 dempedempe 2025-11-21 02:00:07 UTC bravenewgeek.com Llama Share 4

Gil Tene's talk on latency measurement highlights flaws in common tools and methodologies. Measuring latency requires describing the complete distribution of latencies, not just averages or percentiles.

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

45 aabhay 2025-11-20 18:00:07 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 48

Abhay from Poly is building an app to replace Finder/File Explorer with intelligent search capabilities. Poly allows searching terabytes of files in natural language and taking actions on files with an integrated agent.

World Othello Championship Finals

6 Tepix 2025-11-21 02:00:07 UTC flipthedisc.com Full Share 1

Finished, 13 rounds, 92 players

Autocomp: An ADRS Framework for Optimizing Tensor Accelerator Code

67 accheng 2025-11-20 23:00:07 UTC adrs-ucb.notion.site Llama Share 49

Autocomp is an AI-driven code optimizer for tensor accelerators that uses an iterative LLM-guided search approach to optimize accelerator code, outperforming human expert-written code by up to 17x on AWS Trainium. Autocomp's portability and ability to adapt to new hardware platforms make it a powerful tool for optimizing tensor accelerator code, with potential applications in systems research ...

Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

131 JPLeRouzic 2025-11-20 16:00:07 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 87

You trained a Markov chain generator on an article by Uri Alon and achieved results comparable to tiny LLMs like NanoGPT. The generator produces coherent text on aging cell models and age-related diseases.

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

298 not_knuth 2025-11-20 10:00:07 UTC geacron.com Full Share 130

World History Maps & Timelines. Kingdoms, Battles, Expeditions. Comparative History, Political, Military, Art, Science, Literature, Religion, Philosophy. Maps based on vector database.

Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]

109 Archelaos 2025-11-20 15:00:07 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 77

Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft

138 avaliosdev 2025-11-20 16:00:07 UTC astral-os.org Llama Share 17

The author ported Minecraft to their homebrew operating system, Astral, which involved fixing OpenJDK and LWJGL2. They overcame several issues, including a segmentation fault and missing symbols.

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing

61 ibobev 2025-11-20 21:00:07 UTC blog.jsbarretto.com Llama Share 110

Object-oriented programming shifted from a single domain to multiple domains, but its core idea of encapsulation and separation is now being replaced by microservices and process boundaries. The new approach has the same flaws as OOP, but magnified tenfold, leading to increased complexity and failure modes.