Hacker News Highlights

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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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.