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CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c...
136•jjwiseman•27m ago•35 comments

Nano Banana Pro

https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
579•meetpateltech•5h ago•384 comments

NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]

https://www.ntsb.gov/Documents/Prelimiary%20Report%20DCA26MA024.pdf
75•gregsadetsky•1h ago•67 comments

The Lions Operating System

https://lionsos.org
47•plunderer•2h ago•4 comments

CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork

https://lwn.net/Articles/1024387/
45•altilunium•1w ago•10 comments

Microsoft makes Zork open-source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-i...
215•tabletcorry•2h ago•78 comments

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2025/11/19/encryption-in-duckdb
21•chmaynard•54m ago•1 comments

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles

https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
130•ramimac•2d ago•36 comments

Mozilla Says It's Finally Done with Two-Faced Onerep

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/mozilla-says-its-finally-done-with-two-faced-onerep/
12•todsacerdoti•1h ago•6 comments

Go Cryptography State of the Union

https://words.filippo.io/2025-state/
68•ingve•3h ago•33 comments

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

25•aabhay•2h ago•25 comments

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/
221•abraham•3h ago•181 comments

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards

https://mobomaps.com
72•tagyro•1d ago•10 comments

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board

https://github.com/PegorK/f32
118•pegor•1d ago•15 comments

What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)

https://hasbrouck.org/articles/PNR.html
23•rzk•4d ago•4 comments

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

https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf
54•todsacerdoti•5h ago•5 comments

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

70•JPLeRouzic•2d ago•44 comments

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

http://geacron.com/home-en/
249•not_knuth•10h ago•121 comments

Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft

https://astral-os.org/posts/2025/10/31/astral-minecraft.html
52•avaliosdev•2d ago•5 comments

Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXzUGYIL9M#t=15m19s
40•Archelaos•3d ago•30 comments

Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history

https://startupgambit.com
11•vire00•4d ago•1 comments

Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_The_Weeping_Woman_from_the_National_Gallery_of_Victoria
50•neom•5d ago•32 comments

Red Alert 2 in web browser

https://chronodivide.com/
323•nsoonhui•7h ago•103 comments

IBM Delivers New Quantum Package

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-11-12-ibm-delivers-new-quantum-processors,-software,-and-algorithm-...
38•donutloop•1w ago•11 comments

Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory
274•bradrn•5h ago•109 comments

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
192•capgre•8h ago•109 comments

The Firefly and the Pulsar

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/11/20/the-firefly-and-the-pulsar/
10•JPLeRouzic•3h ago•1 comments

Android/Linux Dual Boot

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Dual_Booting/WiP
255•joooscha•3d ago•140 comments

50th Anniversary of BitBLT

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fvzappa/115574872559813280
39•todsacerdoti•17h ago•3 comments

Typesetting the "Begriffsschrift" by Gottlob Frege in Plain TeX [pdf]

https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-3/tb114wermuth.pdf
28•perihelions•1w ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)

https://hasbrouck.org/articles/PNR.html
23•rzk•4d ago

Comments

dang•1h ago
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037279 - July 2013 (2 comments)

tolerance•12m ago
If I may, I’d like to reproduce the lengthy article’s “punchline” here in addition:

“PNR's show where you went, when, with whom, for how long, and at whose expense. Behind the closed doors of your hotel room, with a particular other person, they show whether you asked for one bed or two. Through departmental and project billing codes, business travel PNR's reveal confidential internal corporate and other organization structures and lines of authority and show which people were involved in work together, even if they travelled separately. Particularly in the aggregate, they reveal trade secrets, insider financial information, and information protected by attorney-client, journalistic, and other privileges.

Through meeting codes used for convention and other discounts, PNR's reveal affiliations -- even with organizations whose membership lists are closely-held secrets not required to be divulged to the government. Through special service codes, they reveal details of travellers' physical and medical conditions. Through special meal requests, they contain indications of travellers' religious practices -- a category of information specially protected by many countries.

PNR's for reservations made or changed online routinely include IP addresses and timestamps to enable them to be cross-referenced with Web server logs.”

The rest of the web site remains a curious display of information.

kccqzy•18m ago
> Airlines don’t collect most passenger information — travel agents do. Most passengers never deal with the airline until they check in for their flight at the airport. And standard travel agency procedures make them function, in practice, as quite effective “anonymizing proxies” for travellers.

So my takeaway is that for enhanced privacy I should try to book flights with travel agencies instead of directly with airlines. Is the advice still applicable or is it out of date with the advent of API and other ways the government collects information?