Best Hacker News Highlights Podcasts (2025)

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8.23.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 released, Switching from Gmail to Mailbox.org, Cloudflare launches first Media over QUIC CDN 12:18

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - FFmpeg 8.0 (01:31) - Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org (02:36) - The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare (03:50) - LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis (05:04) - Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supe…

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The Evolving Landscape of Cybersecurity Training: Effective Strategies and Misleading Headlines 1:22:43

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In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love explores the complex dynamics of cybersecurity training with guests Michael Joyce and David Shipley. They discuss the importance of continuous awareness and the temporal decay of training effects. The conversation highlights the critical balance between training frequency and effectiveness, with…

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Humans extinct: 2040, Okta, Elastic, Bad Bots, Berserk Bear, Siemens, Aaran Leyland.. - SWN #505 34:12

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Humans wiped out by 2040, Okta, Elastic, Bad Bots, Berserk Bear, Siemens, Philip K. Dick, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-505

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8.22.25 | AWS CEO criticizes AI replacing juniors, AI tooling disclosure required, DeepSeek-v3.1 released 12:22

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:23) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (01:37) - AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (02:49) - DeepSeek-v3.1 (03:50) - Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems (05:08) - Show HN: OS X Mave…

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Cybersecurity Today: Massive Data Exposures, Microsoft Failures, and PayPal Breach Claims 9:09

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In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love covers a range of recent cybersecurity incidents. A major privacy failure has hit Elon Musk's Grok chatbot, exposing over 370,000 private conversations with sensitive information. Microsoft's recent security update has caused SSD and HDD failures, complicating data recovery. Hackers have exploit…

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What We’ve Learned from LockBit and Black Basta Leaks (and News) - Ian Gray - PSW #888 2:15:17

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This segment is sponsored by Flashpoint. Visit https://securityweekly.com/flashpoint to learn more about them! Recent leaks tied to LockBit and Black Basta have exposed the inner workings of two of the most notorious ransomware groups—revealing their tactics, negotiation strategies, and operational infrastructure. For defenders, this rare window in…

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8.21.25 | Spherical helix visualization, anime catgirls blocking Linux kernel access, Zedless fork prioritizing privacy and local-first 11:57

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization (01:25) - Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? (02:43) - Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first (03:46) - Sequoia backs Zed (05:0…

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8.20.25 | Exploited CodeRabbit for RCE, AGENTS.md for coding agents, Copilot broke audit logs without customer notification 12:16

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (01:40) - AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents (02:58) - Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers (04:15) - How to Draw a Space Invader (05:13)…

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Misconfiguration, The Forgotten Vulnerability and the Power and Failure of "Yes" - Danny Jenkins - BSW #409 53:55

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The industry is obsessed with vulnerabilities. From vulnerability assessment to vulnerability management to exposure management and even zero days, we love to talk about vulnerabilities. But what about misconfiguration? By definition it's a vulnerability or weakness, but it doesn't have a CVE (common vulnerability enumeration). Should we ignore it?…

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Cybersecurity Breaches: Salesforce, Workday, and Critical Infrastructure Hacked 9:04

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In today's episode of 'Cybersecurity Today,' hosted by Jim Love, we cover several key issues in the cybersecurity landscape. Firstly, a breach involving Workday and social engineering attacks targeting Salesforce customers is discussed. Next, the risks posed by a recent Windows update potentially causing data corruption on SSDs and HDDs are highlig…

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The cult of Doug, Crime, Pipemagic, Clickfix, Cats in Space, Josh Marpet, and more... - SWN #504 34:06

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The cult of Doug, Crime, Pipemagic, Clickfix, Cats in Space, Uncle Silvio, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-504

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8.19.25 | Anna's Archive update, app to block Shorts and Reels, Obsidian Bases 11:28

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team (01:27) - Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels (02:32) - Obsidian Bases (03:38) - Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust (04:37) - FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons (05:44)…

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Managing the Minimization of a Container Attack Surface - Neil Carpenter - ASW #344 1:08:17

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A smaller attack surface should lead to a smaller list of CVEs to track, which in turn should lead to a smaller set of vulns that you should care about. But in practice, keeping something like a container image small has a lot of challenges in terms of what should be considered minimal. Neil Carpenter shares advice and anecdotes on what it takes to…

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8.18.25 | Claudia assists Claude coding, NextDNS introduces age verification bypass, The Enterprise Experience 12:36

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code (01:29) - Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" (02:40) - The Enterprise Experience (03:53) - ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links (05:05) - Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG e…

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Rethinking risk based vulnerability management, Black Hat expo insights, and the news - Snehal Antani - ESW #420 1:55:35

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Interview with Snehal Antani - Rethinking Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Vulnerability management is broken. Organizations basically use math to turn a crappy list into a slightly less crappy list, and the hardest part of the job as a CIO is deciding what NOT to fix. There has to be a better way, and there is... Segment Resources: https://hori…

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Breaking Cybersecurity News: Canada's House of Commons Breached and Windows 10 Support Ending Soon 9:51

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In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host David Shipley reports from Fredericton, New Brunswick, amidst severe forest fires. The main story covers a data breach in Canada’s House of Commons involving parliamentary employee information, attributed to a recent Microsoft vulnerability. The episode also discusses Fortinet’s recent high-severity vuln…

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8.17.25 | Compiler bug affects Solidity, OpenBSD's speed requires program adjustment, CIA's heart attack gun incident 11:36

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (01:36) - OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself (02:44) - When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun (03:47) - US F-16s lose out…

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8.16.25 | Open hardware 3D printing decline, Amsterdam’s Ritman Library digitizes occult books, Edka enables Kubernetes on Hetzner 12:08

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2025. Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911423 Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-boo…

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Exploring the Ransomware Ecosystem with Tammy Harper 1:13:55

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In this episode of 'Cybersecurity Today,' the host welcomes Tammy Harper from Flair.io for an in-depth exploration into the ransomware ecosystem. Tammy, a seasoned threat intelligence researcher and certified dark web investigator, shines a light on the complex world of ransomware, its history, business models, and the various threat actor groups i…

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Creepy chatbots, Fortinet, CISA, Agentic AI, FIDO, EDR, Aaran Leyland, and More... - SWN #503 35:09

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Creepy chatbots, Fortinet, CISA, Agentic AI, FIDO, EDR, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-503

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8.15.25 | Strongest AI model on a laptop, Gemma 3 270M for efficient AI, Steve Wozniak on happiness over accomplishment 12:37

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2025. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? https://www.seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875848 Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/ http…

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300 Million In Crypto Fraud Funds Frozen: Cybersecurity Today 8:43

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Cyber Crime Crackdown: $300 Million in Crypto Frozen, FBI Accounts Hacked, and Critical Microsoft Patches Released In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love covers major recent events in cybercrime and cybersecurity. Over $300 million in cryptocurrency tied to cybercrime has been frozen through coordinated efforts by the private sector …

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Hackberry PIs and Other Hacker Things - PSW #887 2:08:42

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We kick things off with a deep dive into the Hackberry PI and how to build one. Then in the security news: Will Perplexity buy Chrome? ESP32 Bus Pirates Poisoned telemetry Docker image security Fully Open Source Quantum Sensors Securing your car, Flippers, and show me the money Bringing your printer and desktop to Starbucks Paying a ransom? You nee…

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8.14.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper, Nginx supports ACME protocol, PYX advances Python packaging 12:41

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2025. FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol https:/…

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8.13.25 | Claude Sonnet 4 supports 1M tokens, Building a web search engine with 3B embeddings, Search all text in New York City 12:06

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2025. Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878147 Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/ https://news.ycombinator.com…

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Defending Trust & Reputation as CISOs and Leaders Prepare Their AI Strategy - Santosh Nair - BSW #408 50:05

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As brands grow more digital, the threats grow more personal. Attackers impersonate executives, spin up fake websites, and leak sensitive data — hurting business reputations and breaking customer trust. How do you defend your organization's reputation and customers' trust? Santosh Nair, Co-Founder and CTO at Styx Intelligence, joins Business Securit…

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Urgent Vulnerabilities: Patching Exchange, Citrix, and Fortinet 14:33

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In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host David Shipley covers critical security updates and vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange, Citrix NetScaler, and Fortinet SSL VPNs. With over 29,000 unpatched Exchange servers posing a risk for admin escalation and potential full domain compromise, urgent action is needed. Citrix Bleed 2 is activel…

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300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet... - SWN #502 34:14

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300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-502

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8.12.25 | GitHub loses independence post-CEO resignation, todo app experiment leads to .txt file, Wikipedia fails against Online Safety Act 11:42

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2025. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560 I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file https://www.a…

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The Future of Supply Chain Security - Janet Worthington - ASW #343 42:13

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Open source software is a massive contribution that provides everything from foundational frameworks to tiny single-purpose libraries. We walk through the dimensions of trust and provenance in the software supply chain with Janet Worthington. And we discuss how even with new code generated by LLMs and new terms like slopsquatting, a lot of the most…

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8.11.25 | Fight Chat Control, Coding with AI affordably, Try and 11:45

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2025. Fight Chat Control https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426 How I code with AI on a budget/free https://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850913 Try and https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-and https://news.ycombina…

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ESW at BlackHat and the weekly enterprise security news - ESW #419 45:44

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Topic Segment - What's new at Black Hat? We're coming live from hacker summer camp 2025, so it seemed appropriate to share what we've seen and heard so far at this year's event. Adrian's on vacation, so this episode is featuring Jackie McGuire and Ayman Elsawah! News Segment Then, in the enterprise security news, Tons of funding! SentinelOne picks …

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Cyber Attacks, Jailbreaking GPT-5, and Hacker Summer Camp 2025 Highlights 14:34

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In today's episode of Cybersecurity Today, host David Shipley covers critical updates on recent cyber attacks and breaches impacting the US Federal judiciary's case management systems, and SonicWall firewall compromises. He also discusses researchers' new jailbreak method against GPT-5, which bypasses ethical guardrails to produce harmful instructi…

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8.9.25 | Ultrathin business card simulates fluid, offline AI workspace creation, Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died 12:15

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2025. Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835879 I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace https://news.ycombinator.…

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Cybersecurity Today Month In Review: August 9, 2025 58:55

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Cybersecurity Today: July Review - Massive Lawsuits, AI Warnings, and Major Breaches In this episode of Cybersecurity Today: The Month in Review, host Jim Love and an expert panel, including David Shipley, Anton Levaja, and Tammy Harper, discuss the most significant cybersecurity stories from July. Key topics include the $380 million lawsuit betwee…

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SonicWall, Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity, GPT‑5, Josh Marpet–SWN #501 - SWN #501 34:23

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This week we have, SonicWall, Confidential Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity vs robots.txt, Microsoft’s Project Ire, Meta–Flo Jury Verdict, GPT‑5 Lands, TeaOnHer Data Leak, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-…

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8.8.25 | GPT-5, Vibechart, GPT-5 features and pricing 10:58

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 8, 2025. GPT-5 https://openai.com/gpt-5/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826997 Vibechart https://www.vibechart.net/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44830684 GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/ https://news.ycombinator.c…

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Cybersecurity Alerts: Black Hat Exposes AI and Firmware Vulnerabilities 11:54

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In this episode, host Jim Love thanks listeners for their support of his book 'Elisa, A Tale of Quantum Kisses,' which is available for 99 cents on Kindle. The show then dives into pressing cybersecurity issues discussed at Black Hat USA, including vulnerabilities in AI assistants via prompt injection attacks, and critical flaws in Broadcom chips u…

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Devices Are Attacking - PSW #886 2:08:14

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Why should hate AI When firmware attacks The 300 second breach Old ways still work, AI might help And so begins the crawler wars Turn off your SonicWall VPN Your Pie may be wrapped in PII Attackers will find a way Signed kernel drivers D-Link on the KEV Rasperry PIs attack Stealthy LoRa LLM's don't commit code, people do Jame's Bond style rescue wi…

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8.7.25 | Claude Code integrates with Emacs, passwords replaced with worse alternatives, Automerge 3.0 released 12:59

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2025. Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811567 We replaced passwords with something worse https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwords https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917 Automerge 3.0 https://au…