top 20 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

Grok Code Fast 1

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

1 year ago

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

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

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

If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n2ubjx/if_you_have_a_claude_personal_account_they_are/

1 year ago

Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf

1 year ago

Flunking my Anthropic interview again

https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic

1 year ago

The day Return became Enter (2023)

https://aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter/

1 year ago

Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public

https://practicalshootinginsights.com/eighth-circuit-fmeca-update/

1 year ago

Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/

1 year ago

Wikipedia as a Graph

https://wikigrapher.com/paths

1 year ago

Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

https://lwn.net/Articles/1033474/

1 year ago

Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-stone-age-settlements-underwater-research-d0a77a07cdad2c23bd61c3f4bb015d7d

1 year ago

AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding

1 year ago