news, !paper 2025-11-23

1161 Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays / emilysneddon.com / 140

944 After my dad died, we found the love letters / jenn.site / 435

886 Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation / minimaxir.com / 236

622 Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs / checkout.com / 284

552 X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run / hindustantimes.com / 303

500 Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air / nytimes.com / 613

456 Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS / gist.github.com / 192

409 Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public / time.com / 162

401 Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates / makingsoftware.com / 89

395 µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D / microcad.xyz / 134

359 Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf] / mathcs.holycross.edu / 76

351 Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web / tweeks.io / 213

351 Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? / news.ycombinator.com / 208

348 Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 / oneusefulthing.org / 313

346 RuBee / computer.rip / 61

334 Racket v9.0 / blog.racket-lang.org / 124

276 The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing / gist.github.com / 200

273 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18 / blog.zorin.com / 268

251 Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft? / birchtree.me / 228

243 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering / pub.towardsai.net / 203

238 SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds / deepmind.google / 111

217 "Good engineering management" is a fad / lethain.com / 114

214 Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal / windowsreport.com / 100

211 The Rust Performance Book (2020) / nnethercote.github.io / 33

203 New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect / phys.org / 82

190 MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces / blog.modelcontextprotocol.io / 121

173 We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs / lalitm.com / 4

172 Ego, empathy, and humility at work / matthogg.fyi / 58

171 Editing Code in Emacs / redpenguin101.github.io / 52

160 Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again / notesfrombelow.org / 123

157 Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation / github.com/unhappychoice / 20

156 Several core problems with Rust / bykozy.me / 321

146 Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd / github.com/dadtronics / 58

144 Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter / reuters.com / 143

136 Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? / news.ycombinator.com / 27

135 Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C / github.com/t9nzin / 32

123 Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year / 9to5mac.com / 113

112 Signal knows who you're talking to (2023) / sanesecurityguy.com / 154

110 Dark Mode Sucks / tomechangosubanana.com / 158

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