Hacker News on Saturday, 13 December 2025

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

1355 points by parisidau 10 months ago | 772 comments

A personal blog post describing how Apple locked the author's Apple ID, cutting off 20 years of digital life with no recourse, and pleading for help.

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits(ipinfo.io)

431 points by mmaia 10 months ago | 268 comments

IPinfo blog post examining whether VPN providers' advertised server locations match the actual exit locations of their traffic.

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

375 points by lemonlime227 10 months ago | 379 comments

Ask HN post asking for tips on using AI tools like Claude Code to better migrate a jQuery and Django project to idiomatic SvelteKit.

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code(blog.tymscar.com)

331 points by tymscar 10 months ago | 193 comments

A blog post by Oscar Molnar describing his experience using the Gleam programming language to solve Advent of Code 2025 puzzles.

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C(fil-c.org)

331 points by pizlonator 10 months ago | 133 comments

A Fil-C documentation page explaining how memory safety and Linux sandboxing (seccomp) are orthogonal and how Fil-C supports sandboxes.

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model(susam.net)

291 points by zdw 10 months ago | 113 comments

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's(sandyuraz.com)

285 points by thecsw 10 months ago | 129 comments

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith(twilio.com)

244 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 214 comments

Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People(github.com)

220 points by simonpure 10 months ago | 33 comments

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

220 points by t-3 10 months ago | 39 comments

Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100

210 points by ggm 10 months ago | 75 comments

Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf](nanohub.org)

203 points by akshatjiwan 10 months ago | 9 comments

An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine(positive.news)

181 points by ohjeez 10 months ago | 101 comments

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

174 points by vinhnx 10 months ago | 53 comments

Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost(science.org)

156 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 101 comments

30 years of <br> tags(artmann.co)

151 points by FragrantRiver 10 months ago | 50 comments

Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format(github.com)

145 points by cryptonector 10 months ago | 36 comments

YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same(cnbc.com)

138 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 116 comments

From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4(sdiehl.github.io)

131 points by rwosync 10 months ago | 17 comments

LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted(old.reddit.com)

129 points by bj-rn 10 months ago | 96 comments

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video](youtube.com)

121 points by joelkesler 10 months ago | 128 comments

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure(technicshistory.com)

120 points by cfmcdonald 10 months ago | 61 comments

Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet(pv-magazine-usa.com)

119 points by Matrixik 10 months ago | 115 comments

We built another object storage(fractalbits.com)

114 points by fractalbits 10 months ago | 38 comments

Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo(gabrielweinberg.com)

111 points by ArmageddonIt 10 months ago | 77 comments

The state of the kernel Rust experiment(lwn.net)

105 points by dochtman 10 months ago | 74 comments

Dick Van Dyke turns 100(theguardian.com)

102 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 19 comments

Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data(wired.com)

94 points by iamnothere 10 months ago | 25 comments

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)(woodrush.github.io)

90 points by pabs3 10 months ago | 3 comments

Closures as Win32 Window Procedures(nullprogram.com)

87 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 20 comments

Building an efficient hash table in Java(bluuewhale.github.io)

75 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 10 comments

The Checkerboard(99percentinvisible.org)

70 points by thread_id 10 months ago | 27 comments

Poor Johnny still won't encrypt(bfswa.substack.com)

61 points by zdw 10 months ago | 73 comments

Oliver sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost?(newyorker.com)

56 points by talonx 10 months ago | 13 comments

Workday project at Washington University hits $266M(theregister.com)

55 points by sebastian_z 10 months ago | 62 comments

Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025(plasticsoldierreview.com)

55 points by YeGoblynQueenne 10 months ago | 39 comments

The Number That Turned Sideways(zuriby.github.io)

48 points by tzury 10 months ago | 29 comments

Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp(world-playground-deceit.net)

47 points by BoingBoomTschak 10 months ago | 9 comments

A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg(outsideonline.com)

47 points by areoform 10 months ago | 39 comments

The Coming Need for Formal Specification(benjamincongdon.me)

47 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 32 comments

Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts(aljazeera.com)

46 points by Anon84 10 months ago | 37 comments

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads(forbes.com)

46 points by rmason 10 months ago | 37 comments

RemoveWindowsAI(github.com)

43 points by hansmayer 10 months ago | 42 comments

AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement(wbur.org)

41 points by geox 10 months ago | 51 comments

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?(npr.org)

39 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 29 comments

Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode(nand2mario.github.io)

39 points by nand2mario 10 months ago | 9 comments

From profiling to kernel patch: the journey to an eBPF performance fix(rovarma.com)

38 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 1 comments

Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?(buzzsprout.com)

37 points by jammcq 10 months ago | 37 comments

Playing Santa changed Bob Rutan profoundly(esquire.com)

36 points by Lightbody 10 months ago | 11 comments

llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File(github.com)

35 points by stefankuehnel 10 months ago | 4 comments

I created a publishing system for step-by-step coding guides in Typst(press.knowledge.dev)

34 points by deniskolodin 10 months ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?

34 points by glidr_dev 10 months ago | 39 comments

The Legacy of Nicaea(hedgehogreview.com)

33 points by diodorus 10 months ago | 24 comments

Show HN: I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18%(github.com)

31 points by wozzio 10 months ago | 21 comments

Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links(github.com)

22 points by yogananda 10 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Claude Code recipes for knowledge workers(github.com)

18 points by sgharlow 10 months ago | 1 comments

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class(nytimes.com)

17 points by signa11 10 months ago | 20 comments

Windows 3.1 in the Browser(pcjs.org)

15 points by memalign 10 months ago | 1 comments

We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments(programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

14 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: UK Butchers Meat Price Tracker(offer-spider.onrender.com)

11 points by wolfer 10 months ago | 3 comments