The best of Hacker News - August 30, 2025

1.
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

514 points

2.
Grok Code Fast 1

362 points

3.
The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

343 points

4.
John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

318 points

5.
Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

281 points

6.
Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition

215 points

7.
Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

211 points

8.
Wikipedia as a Graph

173 points

9.
How do I get into the game industry

144 points

10.
The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

84 points

11.
How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?

82 points

12.
Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

79 points

13.
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

64 points

14.
Delete tests

47 points

15.
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

46 points

16.
I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own

43 points

17.
Acoustic Panels as Wall Coverings in TNG

26 points

18.
Accelerating life sciences research

24 points

19.
Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie

17 points

20.
SynthID

9 points

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