Hacker News Highlights

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

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:18) - Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
  • (01:14) - Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
  • (02:33) - Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
  • (03:27) - Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
  • (04:23) - The case against social media is stronger than you think
  • (05:44) - Models of European Metro Stations
  • (06:57) - Pass: Unix Password Manager
  • (08:05) - My first impressions of Gleam
  • (09:15) - RIP pthread_cancel
  • (10:30) - 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
  • (12:00) - Outro

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
https://anycrap.shop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231378

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-disease
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235648

Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotland
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232562

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236263

The case against social media is stronger than you think
https://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-case-against-social-media-is
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234323

Models of European Metro Stations
http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45238055

Pass: Unix Password Manager
https://www.passwordstore.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236079

My first impressions of Gleam
https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231852

RIP pthread_cancel
https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233713

486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232565

What is Hacker News Highlights?

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