top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-08-29

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/

1 year ago

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms

1 year ago

Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/tesla-autopilot-crashes-evidence-testimony-wrongful-death/

1 year ago

Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos

https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-might-be-secretly-scanning-your-phones-camera-roll-how-to-check-and-turn-it-off/

1 year ago

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

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849

1 year ago

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/lossy-encyclopedia/

1 year ago

Grok Code Fast 1

https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1

1 year ago

Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes

1 year ago

The Synology End Game

https://lowendbox.com/blog/they-used-to-be-good-but-now-theyve-turned-to-evil-the-synology-end-game/

1 year ago

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

https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers

1 year ago