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

Hacker News Highlights · Aug 30, 2025 · 11m

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…