Hacker News Highlights7 Sep 2025

9.7.25 | Windows XP portfolio, Burger King auth bypass, Kim dump reveals North Korea's theft tactics

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
(01:28) - We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
(02:40) - How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
(03:52) - A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
(05:08) - Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
(06:24) - Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
(07:27) - Oldest recorded transaction
(08:43) - Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
(10:01) - The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
(11:15) - RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
(12:28) - Outro

Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
https://mitchivin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609

We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45148944

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
https://dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-kimsuky-leak-how-the-kim-dump-exposed-north-koreas-credential-theft-playbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152066

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
https://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-weaving.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152779

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
https://www.consumer.org.hk/en/press-release/528-sunscreen-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152374

Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
https://kanadojo.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152940

Oldest recorded transaction
https://avi.im/blag/2025/oldest-txn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149626

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/stop-writing-cli-validation-parse-it-right-the-first-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45151622

The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250829-the-bomber-that-became-ww2s-most-expensive-weapon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109927

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155179

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10.19.26 | People behind software, Agents reason in latent space, RepRapMicron

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Someone behind the ...

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10.18.26 | DeepSeek releases v4.1 Flash, Solar surpasses nuclear globally, Bleached corals thrive touching neighbours

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash...

18 Okt 10min

10.17.26 | Tesla Roadster, Claude reveals ECDSA origins, 90% US tasks lack AI benchmarks

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Tesla Roadster (01:...

17 Okt 12min

10.16.26 | Muse Spark Open, Clean neural networks, Skeuomorphic Wayland Linux desktop

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Muse Spark Open (01...

16 Okt 10min

10.15.26 | Cancer diagnosis advice, AI hacking blamed on failures, Amazon raises Internet prices

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15 Okt 10min

10.14.26 | Gemini 4 Argon, Anthropic redesigns source control, Apple HomeView

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14 Okt 11min

10.13.26 | Hackers trigger European fridge defrosting, Modern Web App in C, GLM-Legal

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Hackers activate au...

13 Okt 11min

10.12.26 | Passkeys are a trap, Total Annihilation modernized, LLM capability understanding gap widens

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12 Okt 11min