HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-20

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Nano Banana Pro (blog.google)

    1275 points · HN #45993296

  2. 02

    Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC (geacron.com)

    361 points · HN #45990934

  3. 03

    Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs (arxiv.org)

    384 points · HN #45991738

  4. 04

    Microsoft makes Zork open-source (opensource.microsoft.com)

    640 points · HN #45995740

  5. 05

    CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns (apnews.com)

    838 points · HN #45996860

  6. 06

    Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles (joshua.hu)

    372 points · HN #45963350

  7. 07

    Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board (github.com/pegork)

    302 points · HN #45984461

  8. 08

    New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS (github.com/ravynsoft)

    315 points · HN #45997212

  9. 09

    Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards (mobomaps.com)

    274 points · HN #45976693

  10. 10

    NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf] (ntsb.gov)

    216 points · HN #45995834

  11. 11

    The Lions Operating System (lionsos.org)

    209 points · HN #45995816

  12. 12

    Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB (duckdb.org)

    222 points · HN #45996585

  13. 13

    Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video] (youtube.com)

    186 points · HN #45957743

  14. 14

    The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable (eff.org)

    619 points · HN #45985890

  15. 15

    Android/Linux Dual Boot (postmarketos.org)

    290 points · HN #45951275

  16. 16

    Red Alert 2 in web browser (chronodivide.com)

    497 points · HN #45991853

  17. 17

    Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory (element.io)

    210 points · HN #45987179

  18. 18

    Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft (astral-os.org)

    236 points · HN #45958988

  19. 19

    New Glenn Update (blueorigin.com)

    179 points · HN #45997914

  20. 20

    Basalt Woven Textile (materialdistrict.com)

    220 points · HN #45989329

  21. 21

    GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014) (githut.info)

    88 points · HN #45998047

  22. 22

    CUDA Ontology (jamesakl.com)

    271 points · HN #45947437

  23. 23

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

    204 points · HN #45958004

  24. 24

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

    66 points · HN #45995394

  25. 25

    'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40 (npr.org)

    376 points · HN #45991787

  26. 26

    Go Cryptography State of the Union (filippo.io)

    174 points · HN #45994895

  27. 27

    What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? (theparisreview.org)

    98 points · HN #45888759

  28. 28

    Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification (phoronix.com)

    368 points · HN #45992829

  29. 29

    The lost cause of the Lisp machines (tfeb.org)

    173 points · HN #45984133

  30. 30

    Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf] (okmij.org)

    94 points · HN #45993214