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8.30.25 | Simplest effective solution, Grok Code Fast 1, John Carmack opposes custom XR OS at Meta


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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025.

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:22) - Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
  • (01:34) - Grok Code Fast 1
  • (02:51) - John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
  • (04:04) - The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
  • (05:21) - Flunking my Anthropic interview again
  • (06:36) - Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
  • (07:39) - Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
  • (09:00) - Wikipedia as a Graph
  • (09:58) - How do I get into the game industry
  • (11:06) - Outro

  • Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
    https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068091

    Grok Code Fast 1
    https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559

    John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
    https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

    The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
    https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066258

    Flunking my Anthropic interview again
    https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064284

    Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
    https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065705

    Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
    http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037419

    Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
    https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064329

    Wikipedia as a Graph
    https://wikigrapher.com/paths
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060

    How do I get into the game industry
    https://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036052

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