{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"12.14.25 | Stranger kindness, VPN location discrepancies, improving AI programming skills","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f10175a4\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":708,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 14, 2025.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nWhat is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?\nhttps://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236001\nVPN location claims don't match real traffic exits\nhttps://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339\nAsk HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285\nI tried Gleam for Advent of Code\nhttps://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991\nUseful patterns for building HTML tools\nhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882\nWhy Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith\nhttps://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714\nLinux Sandboxes and Fil-C\nhttps://fil-c.org/seccomp\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064\nRecovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's\nhttps://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163\nGo Proposal: Secret Mode\nhttps://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705\nI fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model\nhttps://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}