Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 14, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
• (01:32) - Zed is our office
• (02:39) - SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
• (03:48) - Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
• (04:58) - Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
• (06:24) - Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
• (07:24) - Blender Lab
• (08:27) - SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
• (09:40) - 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
• (10:56) - Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
• (11:58) - Outro

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875

Zed is our office
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067

Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-lands-new-glenn-rocket-booster-on-second-try/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920748

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916525

Blender Lab
https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914761

SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916037

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920881

Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12/ingress-nginx-retirement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921431