7.3.25 | Exploiting IKKO Activebuds, US climate report websites down, gene therapy restored hearing

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2025.Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919Websites hosting major US climate reports taken downhttps://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448868Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patientshttps://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patientshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444626Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effecthttps://glass3d.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445238ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII arthttps://asciimoon.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432571Couchers is officially out of betahttps://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446917Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneckhttps://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneckhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429789AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetingshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446916What to build instead of AI agentshttps://decodingml.substack.com/p/stop-building-ai-agentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450160I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secretshttps://trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-post-how-i-scanned-all-of-github-s-oops-commits-for-leaked-secretshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44452317