top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-13

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

https://anycrap.shop/

1 year ago

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall

https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html

1 year ago

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-disease

1 year ago

SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

https://skiftos.org

1 year ago

Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak

https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/

1 year ago

AI coding

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/09/12/ai-coding.html

1 year ago

Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotland

1 year ago

Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd07nljlyv0o

1 year ago

The case against social media is stronger than you think

https://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-case-against-social-media-is

1 year ago

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

1 year ago

Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction

https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/

1 year ago

Pass: Unix Password Manager

https://www.passwordstore.org/

1 year ago

Magical systems thinking

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/magical-systems-thinking/

1 year ago

‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/google-gemini-ai-training-humans

1 year ago

60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/60-years-after-gemini-newly-processed-images-reveal-incredible-details/

1 year ago

Legal win

https://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/

1 year ago

Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?

https://joincolossus.com/article/ai-will-not-make-you-rich/

1 year ago

California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-12/california-lawmakers-pass-sb-79-housing-bill-that-brings-dense-housing-to-transit-hubs

1 year ago

RIP pthread_cancel

https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/

1 year ago

My first impressions of Gleam

https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/

1 year ago

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler

https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2025/06/11/java-25s-new-cpu-time-profiler-1/

1 year ago

486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/

1 year ago

An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”

https://www.jlowin.dev/blog/oss-maintainers-guide-to-saying-no

1 year ago

Safe C++ proposal is not being continued

https://sibellavia.lol/posts/2025/09/safe-c-proposal-is-not-being-continued/

1 year ago

How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-filesystem-from-scratch

1 year ago

AMD’s RDNA4 GPU architecture

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-rdna4-gpu-architecture-at-hot

1 year ago

Mago: A fast PHP toolchain written in Rust

https://github.com/carthage-software/mago

1 year ago

An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/climate/pacific-cold-water-upwelling.html

1 year ago

Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths

https://www.gearnews.com/raspberry-pi-synthesizers-how-the-pi-is-transforming-synths/

1 year ago

Show HN: CLAVIER-36 – A programming environment for generative music

https://clavier36.com/p/LtZDdcRP3haTWHErgvdM

1 year ago

“Learning how to Learn” will be next generation's most needed skill

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-google-ai-scientist-generation-skill.html

1 year ago

Recreating the US/* time zone situation

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/12/tz/

1 year ago

Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

1 year ago

EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability

1 year ago

Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/charlie-kirk-shooting-people-fired-social-media

1 year ago

Wind turbine blade transportation challenges

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wind-turbine-blade-transport-plane

1 year ago

Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/asia/nepal-protest-genz-discord.html

1 year ago

UTF-8 history (2003)

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

1 year ago

OCI Registry Explorer

https://oci.dag.dev/

1 year ago

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/

1 year ago

Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/09/extreme-life-arctic-ice-diatoms-ecological-discovery

1 year ago

I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

https://zenodo.org/records/17103133

1 year ago

America's Largest Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers

https://hntrbrk.com/homebuilders/

1 year ago

ERP Therapy Sucks

https://taylor.town/try-erp

1 year ago

Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1733

1 year ago

Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living

https://rykarn.se/2025/01/26/wayland

1 year ago

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cubesats-are-fascinating-learning-tools-space

1 year ago

Chatbox app is back on the US app store

https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox/issues/2644

1 year ago