top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-13

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

8 months ago

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report

8 months ago

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285

8 months ago

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/

8 months ago

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp

8 months ago

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html

8 months ago

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/

8 months ago

Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-court-order/

8 months ago

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices

8 months ago

Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252993

8 months ago

Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People

https://github.com/cmontella/purrtran

8 months ago

An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine

https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/

8 months ago

30 years of <br> tags

https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags

8 months ago

1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)

https://www.ghibli.jp/info/013772/

8 months ago

Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf]

https://nanohub.org/resources/43623/download/Essential_Semiconductor_Physics.pdf

8 months ago

YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtubes-ceo-is-latest-tech-boss-limiting-his-kids-social-media-use.html

8 months ago

LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1plldqo/my_lg_tvs_new_software_update_installed_microsoft/

8 months ago

Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost

https://www.science.org/content/article/want-sway-election-here-s-how-much-fake-online-accounts-cost

8 months ago

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ

8 months ago

Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/some-surprising-things-about-duckduckgo

8 months ago