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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 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.