Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 21, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:20) - Nano Banana Pro
  • (01:28) - CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
  • (02:36) - Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
  • (03:46) - Microsoft makes Zork open-source
  • (05:05) - Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
  • (06:08) - Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
  • (07:25) - Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
  • (08:43) - Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
  • (09:50) - New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
  • (11:03) - Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
  • (11:58) - Outro

Nano Banana Pro
https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993296

CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996860

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854

Microsoft makes Zork open-source
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995740

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
http://geacron.com/home-en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45990934

Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991738

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963350

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
https://github.com/PegorK/f32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984461

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997212

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
https://mobomaps.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976693

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