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

Hacker News Highlights

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://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777086

Jules, our asynchronous coding agent
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/jules-now-available/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813854

Litestar is worth a look
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/aug/06/litestar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816755

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
https://www.projecthyperion.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817539

Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
https://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=44813789

A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/segment_array/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815702

Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0213
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819037

Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
https://www.baseten.co/blog/sota-performance-for-gpt-oss-120b-on-nvidia-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819968