Nano Banana Pro
Google's Nano Banana Pro is a new edge AI device that offers powerful computing capabilities in a compact, energy-efficient design. The article highlights the device's potential applications in various industries, such as robotics, smart homes, and intelligent sensors.
Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
Google has announced a new Quick Share feature for Android, providing users with a seamless way to share files and content between Android devices. The feature aims to offer a similar experience to Apple's AirDrop, allowing for easy and efficient cross-device file transfers.
FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
fex-emu is an open-source emulator that allows users to run Nintendo Switch games and applications on their computers. The emulator aims to provide a faithful and accurate reproduction of the Nintendo Switch hardware and software environment.
Why top firms fire good workers
The article explores the phenomenon of employee turnover at top firms, highlighting how high-performing companies often have higher rates of worker attrition compared to lower-performing organizations. It discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of this trend, suggesting that employee churn can be a sign of a dynamic and competitive work environment.
Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure
The article discusses the challenges faced by the xdotool project in adapting to the Wayland display server protocol, highlighting the fragmentation within the Linux desktop ecosystem and the need for better coordination between different display server implementations.
New Glenn Update
Blue Origin has announced upgrades to its New Glenn rocket, including new subcooled propellant components and improved engines, which are expected to enhance the rocket's performance and capabilities.
New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
RavynOS is an open-source, lightweight, and customizable Linux distribution designed for older hardware and embedded systems. It aims to provide a modern and efficient computing experience while maintaining a low resource footprint.
Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
Over-regulation is doubling the cost
The article discusses how over-regulation in Pakistan is doubling the cost of doing business, making it more difficult for entrepreneurs and small businesses to operate effectively. It highlights the need for regulatory reforms and simplified procedures to create a more conducive business environment.
NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
He built underground maze of light-filled earth homes in CA Sierras [video]
GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
GitHut is a website that provides visualizations and statistics related to the GitHub platform, including trends in programming languages, popular repositories, and user activity.
The Lions Operating System
CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
The article discusses the use of facial recognition technology by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track down undocumented immigrants, including by scanning driver's license photos without consent. This has raised concerns about privacy and civil liberties, as the program operates largely without oversight or public knowledge.
Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
The article discusses a security vulnerability in Okta's implementation of the OAuth 2.0 protocol in NextJS applications, which could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. The vulnerability was discovered and responsibly disclosed by the author, leading to a fix by Okta.
The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
This article explores the challenges faced by those living in the 'bottom' of the housing market, including limited housing options, high rents, and the stigma associated with low-income housing. It examines the systemic issues that contribute to the marginalization of this population and the need for policy changes to address the housing affordability crisis.
Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
MoboMaps is a web-based platform that allows users to create and share interactive maps, visualize data, and collaborate on mapping projects. The platform offers a range of features, including geospatial analysis, data integration, and real-time updates, to help users effectively communicate spatial information.
Measuring Latency (2015)
https://archive.md/D8E5W
Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.
Microsoft makes Zork open-source
The Zork text adventure game has been made open-source by Microsoft, allowing developers to use the game's assets and code for new projects. This move comes as part of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company that previously owned the rights to Zork.
Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors
This article explores the concept of Hilbert space, which allows treating functions as vectors. It explains how this mathematical framework can be used to understand and work with infinite-dimensional spaces, and how it has applications in fields like quantum mechanics and functional analysis.
Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files
Hello world, this is Abhay from Poly (https://poly.app). We’re building an app to replace Finder/File Explorer with something more intelligent and searchable. Think of it like Dropbox + NotebookLM + Perplexity for terabytes of your files. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqCySU4Ln0.
Poly can search your content in natural language, across a broad range of file types and down to the page, paragraph, pixel, or point in time. We also provide an integrated agent that can take actions on your files such as creating, editing, summarizing, and researching. Any action that you can take, the agent can also take, from renaming, moving, tagging, annotating, and organizing files for you. The agent can also read URLs, youtube links, and can search the web and even download files for you.
Here are some public drives that you can poke around in (note: it doesn’t work in Safari yet—sorry! we’re working on it.)
Every issue of the Whole Earth Catalogue: https://poly.app/shared/whole-earth-catalogues
Archive of old Playstation Manuals: https://poly.app/shared/playstation-manuals-archive
Mini archive of Orson Welles interviews and commercial spots: https://poly.app/shared/orson-welles-archive
Archive of Salvador Dali’s paintings for Alice in Wonderland: https://poly.app/shared/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland
To try it out, navigate to one of these public folders and use the agent or search to find things. The demo video above can give you an idea of how the UI roughly works. Select files by clicking on them. Quick view by pressing space. Open the details for any file by pressing cmd + i. You can search from the top middle bar (or press cmd + K), and all searches will use semantic similarity and search within the files. Or use the agent from the bottom right tools menu (or press cmd + ?) and you can ask about the files, have the agent search for you, summarize things, etc.
We decided to build this after launching an early image-gen company back in March 2022, and realizing how painful it was for users to store, manage, and search their libraries, especially in a world of generative media. Despite our service having over 150,000 users at that point, we realized that our true calling was fixing the file browser to make it intelligent, so we shut our service down in 2023 and pivoted to this.
We think Poly will be a great fit for anyone that wants to do useful things with their files, such as summarizing research papers, finding the right media or asset, creating a shareable portfolio, searching for a particular form or document, and producing reports and overviews. Of course, it’s a great way to organize your genAI assets as well. Or just use it to organize notes, links, inspo, etc.
Under the hood, Poly is built on our advanced search model, Polyembed-v1 that natively supports multimodal search across text, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, video, PDFs, and more. We allow you to search by phrase, file similarity, color, face, and several other kinds of features. The agent is particularly skilled at using the search, so you can type in something like “find me the last lease agreement I signed” and it can go look for it by searching, reading the first few files, searching again if nothing matches, etc. But the quality of our embed model means it almost always finds the file in the first search.
It works identically across web and desktop, except on desktop it syncs your cloud files to a folder (just like google drive). On the web we use clever caching to enable offline support and file conflict recovery. We’ve taken great pains to make our system faster than your existing file browser, even if you’re using it from a web browser.
File storage plans are currently at: 100GB free tier, paid tier is 2TB at $10/m, and 1c per GB per month on top of the 2TB. We also have rate limits for agent use that vary at different tiers.
We’re excited to expand with many features over the following months, including “virtual files” (store your google docs in Poly), sync from other hosting providers, mobile apps, an MCP ecosystem for the agent, access to web search and deep research modes, offline search, local file support (on desktop), third-party sources (WebDAV, NAS), and a whole lot more.
Our waitlist is now open and we’ll be letting folks in starting today! Sign up at https://poly.app.
We’d also love to hear your thoughts (and concerns) about what we’re building, as we’re early in this journey so your feedback can very much shape the future of our company!
Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/germany-hails-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/arts/music/bach-newly-dis..., https://archive.ph/6DXns
Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
GeoaCron is an interactive world history atlas that allows users to explore events, empires, and civilizations throughout time on a dynamic global map. It provides a comprehensive visual representation of historical developments, enabling users to gain a deeper understanding of the past.
Autocomp: An ADRS Framework for Optimizing Tensor Accelerator Code
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18574
Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft
Astral OS, a newly launched operating system, has announced support for running Minecraft on its platform. This integration aims to provide a seamless and optimized Minecraft experience for users of the Astral OS ecosystem.
Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
I polished a Markov chain generator and trained it on an article by Uri Alon and al (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7963340/).
It generates text that seems to me at least on par with tiny LLMs, such as demonstrated by NanoGPT. Here is an example:
jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$
./SLM10b_train UriAlon.txt 3
Training model with order 3...
Skip-gram detection: DISABLED (order < 5)
Pruning is disabled
Calculating model size for JSON export...
Will export 29832 model entries
Exporting vocabulary (1727 entries)...
Vocabulary export complete.
Exporting model entries...
Processed 12000 contexts, written 28765 entries (96.4%)...
JSON export complete: 29832 entries written to model.json
Model trained and saved to model.json
Vocabulary size: 1727
jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$ ./SLM9_gen model.json
Aging cell model requires comprehensive incidence data. To obtain such a large medical database of the joints are risk factors. Therefore, the theory might be extended to describe the evolution of atherosclerosis and metabolic syndrome. For example, late‐stage type 2 diabetes is associated with collapse of beta‐cell function. This collapse has two parameters: the fraction of the senescent cells are predicted to affect disease threshold . For each individual, one simulates senescent‐cell abundance using the SR model has an approximately exponential incidence curve with a decline at old ages In this section, we simulated a wide range of age‐related incidence curves. The next sections provide examples of classes of diseases, which show improvement upon senolytic treatment tends to qualitatively support such a prediction. model different disease thresholds as values of the disease occurs when a physiological parameter ϕ increases due to the disease. Increasing susceptibility parameter s, which varies about 3‐fold between BMI below 25 (male) and 54 (female) are at least mildly age‐related and 25 (male) and 28 (female) are strongly age‐related, as defined above. Of these, we find that 66 are well described by the model as a wide range of feedback mechanisms that can provide homeostasis to a half‐life of days in young mice, but their removal rate slows down in old mice to a given type of cancer have strong risk factors should increase the removal rates of the joint that bears the most common biological process of aging that governs the onset of pathology in the records of at least 104 people, totaling 877 disease category codes (See SI section 9), increasing the range of 6–8% per year. The two‐parameter model describes well the strongly age‐related ICD9 codes: 90% of the codes show R 2 > 0.9) (Figure 4c). This agreement is similar to that of the previously proposed IMII model for cancer, major fibrotic diseases, and hundreds of other age‐related disease states obtained from 10−4 to lower cancer incidence. A better fit is achieved when allowing to exceed its threshold mechanism for classes of disease, providing putative etiologies for diseases with unknown origin, such as bone marrow and skin. Thus, the sudden collapse of the alveoli at the outer parts of the immune removal capacity of cancer. For example, NK cells remove senescent cells also to other forms of age‐related damage and decline contribute (De Bourcy et al., 2017). There may be described as a first‐passage‐time problem, asking when mutated, impair particle removal by the bronchi and increase damage to alveolar cells (Yang et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2018), and immune therapy that causes T cells to target senescent cells (Amor et al., 2020). Since these treatments are predicted to have an exponential incidence curve that slows at very old ages. Interestingly, the main effects are opposite to the case of cancer growth rate to removal rate We next consider the case of frontline tissues discussed above.
World Othello Championship Finals
This article discusses the creative process behind Flip the Disc, a live music and visual performance that combines electronic music with custom-built rotating LED discs. The piece explores how the artists integrate technology and physicality to create an immersive and visually striking experience for the audience.
Go Cryptography State of the Union
This article explores the potential future state of the world in 2025, examining developments in technology, society, and politics. It discusses advancements in artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and global cooperation, while also highlighting potential challenges such as inequality, climate change, and geopolitical tensions.