news, !paper 2025-11-13

869 Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation / minimaxir.com / 234

620 Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs / checkout.com / 283

617 Zed is our office / zed.dev / 328

577 SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search / blog.kagi.com / 259

472 Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure / rosalux.de / 458

441 Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try / techcrunch.com / 288

433 Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper / windowslatest.com / 385

409 Rust in Android: move fast and fix things / security.googleblog.com / 405

373 Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign / anthropic.com / 282

352 Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill / hightimes.com / 555

340 Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web / tweeks.io / 210

289 Blender Lab / blender.org / 50

284 App Store web has exposed all its source code / reddit.com / 138

277 Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again / popularmechanics.com / 284

273 Hack Club: A story in three acts (a.k.a., the shit sandwich) / kys.llc / 89

269 Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] / youtube.com / 159

262 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark / dataengineeringcentral.substack.com / 107

258 We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner / prosopo.io / 201

248 Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project / grapheneos.social / 151

237 SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds / deepmind.google / 109

210 Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring / kubernetes.dev / 166

205 How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS / blog.lyc8503.net / 76

188 GitHub partial outage / githubstatus.com / 82

170 IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability' / leetarxiv.substack.com / 64

169 Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres / lucumr.pocoo.org / 36

168 Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon / bitwarden.com / 146

161 Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git / lwn.net / 44

159 Heartbeats in Distributed Systems / arpitbhayani.me / 48

157 Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption / landaire.net / 23

146 OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios / openmanet.net / 41

143 Why do we need dithering? / typefully.com / 110

140 Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change / neowin.net / 186

140 Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models" / entropytown.com / 95

138 Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted) / github.com/ory / 96

133 European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft / defensemirror.com / 209

131 Needy Programs / tonsky.me / 26

125 Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023) / people.csail.mit.edu / 111

120 How To Build A Smartwatch: Software / ericmigi.com / 49

120 FSF40 Hackathon / fsf.org / 3

117 Apple Mini Apps Partner Program / developer.apple.com / 68

117 Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires / denx.de / 36

114 The Useful Personal Computer / technicshistory.com / 42

114 Continuous Autoregressive Language Models / arxiv.org / 10

111 Show HN: DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows / github.com/dbos-inc / 57

109 GPT-5.1 for Developers / openai.com / 27

103 The Eggstraordinary Fortress / ahmed1011001.github.io / 35

101 The Monks in the Casino / derekthompson.org / 130

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