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Mia：Welcome to HackerNews Daily, a Bri podcast.

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0723 | Interview Take-Home Unmasks Supply-Chain Plot

A developer dissects a fake job interview that planted persistent malware through a Git hook, and Codeberg's crypto project ban reignites the self-hosting debate. Two creators post-train Gemma 4 to self-assess accuracy, routing only uncertain queries to the cloud, while Terence Tao tests ChatGPT's reasoning on the Jacobian Conjecture. Microsoft sets a 2027 deadline to sunset SMS 2FA and begins automatic passkey enrollment in 2026, raising lock-in concerns. Plus: AI-generated menus as the new low

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Mia：Welcome to HackerNews Daily, the Bri podcast that brings you the top stories from the tech world every day.

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Mia：Welcome to HackerNews Daily, a show from the Bri podcast network.

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EU Parliament Backs Chat Control, Postgres Gets a Rust Rewrite, and Bots Flood LinkedIn

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee narrowly approved the Chat Control proposal, which would scan private — including encrypted — messages for child sexual abuse material, setting up a broader fight ahead. Meanwhile, a community rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust now passes 100% of the original regression test suite, while a separate analysis argues that generative AI is fundamentally lowering the cost of such massive rewrites. The Bun JavaScript runtime is also migrating parts of its

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Grok 4.5, GPT Live, OpenBSD root bug, and a Uniqlo bash shirt

This week, Mia and Milo sift through a wave of developer stories where the headlines often outran the evidence. xAI released Grok 4.5 but the official blog was unreachable, leaving Hacker News as the primary source. Microsoft unveiled Flint, a JSON-based visualization language for AI agents, while a mysterious model called SWE-1.7 claimed near-GPT-5.5 intelligence with no verifiable details. The EU moved closer to reviving private message scanning rules that threaten end-to-end encryption, and O

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EU Privacy Vote, idTech Layoffs, Brain Drain, and Car Cameras

Mia and Milo cover an EU privacy vote that passed by a single seat and could weaken encryption, Microsoft's layoff of the idTech engine team at id Software, and parallel brain-drain signals as researchers leave the US and skilled workers depart Germany. They also unpack the EU's upcoming driver-facing camera mandate, concerns around Windows Device ID tracking, and a wave of local-first tools including Rowboat, Kokoro TTS, and a new K/Q runtime. The episode rounds out with a Chinese bribery death

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