Hacker News Highlights

• 12.14.25 | Stranger kindness, VPN location discrepancies, improving AI programming skills

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (01:21) - VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (02:37) - Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? (03:47) - I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (04:57) - Useful patterns for building HTML tools (06:00) - Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (07:14) - Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C (08:21) - Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's (09:26) - Go Proposal: Secret Mode (10:35) - I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (11:43) - Outro What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236001VPN location claims don't match real traffic exitshttps://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-reporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285I tried Gleam for Advent of Codehttps://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991Useful patterns for building HTML toolshttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolithhttps://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microserviceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714Linux Sandboxes and Fil-Chttps://fil-c.org/seccomphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st'shttps://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163Go Proposal: Secret Modehttps://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov modelhttps://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607

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• 12.13.25 | Apple ID locked, macOS 26.2 fast AI clusters, OpenAI adopts skills in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (01:24) - macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt (02:37) - OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (03:42) - Koralm Railway (04:41) - Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (05:53) - Rats Play DOOM (06:47) - GNU Unifont (08:00) - String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof (09:11) - Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards (10:25) - Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig (11:29) - Outro Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for helphttps://hey.paris/posts/appleid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolthttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLIhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332Koralm Railwayhttps://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railwayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242871Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best optionshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243655Rats Play DOOMhttps://ratsplaydoom.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248323GNU Unifonthttps://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248859String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proofhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwardshttps://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zighttps://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249538

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• 12.12.25 | GPT-5.2 release, highest quality codebase, French supermarket's successful Christmas advert

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - GPT-5.2 (01:23) - The highest quality codebase (02:34) - French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (03:27) - EFF launches Age Verification Hub (04:42) - Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free (05:54) - Nokia N900 Necromancy (07:06) - Litestream VFS (08:16) - Craft software that makes people feel something (09:26) - Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (10:37) - Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (11:40) - Outro GPT-5.2https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234788The highest quality codebasehttps://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187EFF launches Age Verification Hubhttps://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-lawshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Freehttps://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234920Nokia N900 Necromancyhttps://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177Litestream VFShttps://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710Craft software that makes people feel somethinghttps://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231274Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their toolshttps://larr.net/p/namings.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Componentshttps://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-componentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236924

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• 12.11.25 | Life's dimensions, Australia enforces teen social media ban, Valve reports HDMI Forum blocks HDMI 2.1 for Linux

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Size of Life (01:17) - Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (02:24) - Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (03:34) - Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (04:42) - Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (05:53) - Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri (07:07) - Patterns.dev (07:59) - Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (09:11) - How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants (10:17) - Is it a bubble? (11:26) - Outro Size of Lifehttps://neal.fun/size-of-life/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219346Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media banhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linuxhttps://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustrationhttps://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsighthttps://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibrihttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438Patterns.devhttps://www.patterns.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large modelhttps://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurantshttps://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343Is it a bubble?https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubblehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640

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• 12.10.25 | Gemini Pro 3 imagines future HN front page, Let's Encrypt celebrates 10 years, Mistral launches Devstral2 and Vibe CLI

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 10, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now (01:25) - 10 Years of Let's Encrypt (02:45) - Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI (04:01) - Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites (05:06) - PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance (06:12) - Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental (07:16) - Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain (08:23) - If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? (09:39) - Django: what’s new in 6.0 (10:44) - Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (11:48) - Outro Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from nowhttps://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620563210 Years of Let's Encrypthttps://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLIhttps://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-clihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websiteshttps://bruno-simon.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliancehttps://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertubehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207464Rust in the kernel is no longer experimentalhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brainhttps://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207505Django: what’s new in 6.0https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210240Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundationhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207425

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