{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"8.30.25 | Simplest effective solution, Grok Code Fast 1, John Carmack opposes custom XR OS at Meta","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/605ae32f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":671,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025.\nDo the simplest thing that could possibly work\nhttps://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068091\nGrok Code Fast 1\nhttps://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559\nJohn Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta\nhttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395\nThe web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch\nhttps://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066258\nFlunking my Anthropic interview again\nhttps://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064284\nEssential Coding Theory [pdf]\nhttps://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065705\nLisp from Nothing, Second Edition\nhttp://t3x.org/lfn/index.html\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037419\nDeploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs\nhttps://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064329\nWikipedia as a Graph\nhttps://wikigrapher.com/paths\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060\nHow do I get into the game industry\nhttps://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036052","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}