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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2025.Claude Code IDE integration for Emacshttps://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.elhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811567We replaced passwords with something worsehttps://blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwordshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917Automerge 3.0https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777086Jules, our asynchronous coding agenthttps://blog.google/technology/google-labs/jules-now-available/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813854Litestar is worth a lookhttps://www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/aug/06/litestar/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816755Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competitionhttps://www.projecthyperion.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817539Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers workhttps://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writing-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver-a-brief-introduction-on-how-gpu-drivers-work/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813789A fast, growable array with stable pointers in Chttps://danielchasehooper.com/posts/segment_array/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815702Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0213https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819037Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUshttps://www.baseten.co/blog/sota-performance-for-gpt-oss-120b-on-nvidia-gpus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819968