8.30.25 | Simplest effective solution, Grok Code Fast 1, John Carmack opposes custom XR OS at Meta
Hacker News Highlights
- (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