Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 17, 2025.

Attention K-Mart Shoppers
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706706

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days
https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693900

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43707719

Kermit: A typeface for kids
https://microsoft.design/articles/introducing-kermit-a-typeface-for-kids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704904

Darwin's children drew all over the "On the Origin of Species" manuscript (2014)
https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037

A Postmortem of a Startup
https://buildwithtract.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703682

Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo-bled-atari-games-to-death/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704596

An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
https://bjlkeng.io/posts/an-introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703623

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
https://antirez.com/news/150
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705632

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)
https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705649