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

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

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

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  • (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=46236001

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991

Useful patterns for building HTML tools
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
https://fil-c.org/seccomp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163

Go Proposal: Secret Mode
https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607

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

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