Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-11-14

  1. Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation minimaxir.com - 152 comments 579 points
  2. Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs www.checkout.com - 252 comments 569 points
  3. Zed is our office zed.dev - 263 comments 523 points
  4. Britain’s railway privatization was an abject failure www.rosalux.de - 413 comments 451 points
  5. SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search blog.kagi.com - 179 comments 382 points
  6. Rust in Android: move fast and fix things security.googleblog.com - 252 comments 339 points
  7. Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill hightimes.com - 518 comments 312 points
  8. Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try techcrunch.com - 158 comments 309 points
  9. Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again www.popularmechanics.com - 277 comments 255 points
  10. We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner prosopo.io - 180 comments 230 points
  11. Blender Lab www.blender.org - 45 comments 220 points
  12. Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign www.anthropic.com - 145 comments 219 points
  13. Launch HN: Tweeks - YC W25 – Browser extension to deshittify the web www.tweeks.io - 152 comments 209 points
  14. SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds deepmind.google - 76 comments 186 points
  15. GitHub partial outage www.githubstatus.com - 78 comments 181 points
  16. IBM Patented Euler’s 200 Year Old Math Technique for ‘AI Interpretability’ leetarxiv.substack.com - 54 comments 156 points
  17. 650GB of Data - Delta Lake on S3. Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark dataengineeringcentral.substack.com - 40 comments 144 points
  18. Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption landaire.net - 20 comments 144 points
  19. A hemp industry shutdown has just begun www.courier-journal.com - 11 comments 143 points
  20. Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative - self-hosted github.com - 89 comments 128 points
  21. Heartbeats in Distributed Systems arpitbhayani.me - 44 comments 125 points
  22. European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft defensemirror.com - 191 comments 124 points
  23. Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on “world models” entropytown.com - 59 comments 113 points
  24. Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change www.neowin.net - 151 comments 111 points
  25. Hack Club: A story in three acts - a.k.a., the shit sandwich kys.llc - 70 comments 108 points
  26. Denx - a.k.a. U-Boot Retires www.denx.de - 32 comments 106 points
  27. OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios openmanet.net - 25 comments 99 points
  28. The Monks in the Casino www.derekthompson.org - 117 comments 97 points
  29. Apple Mini Apps Partner Program developer.apple.com - 57 comments 96 points
  30. Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring www.kubernetes.dev - 39 comments 91 points