Hacker News Digest · August 30, 2025

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work seangoedecke.com / 199 comments

15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance nature.com / 12 comments

John Carmack’s arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta twitter.com / 317 comments

Delete Tests andre.arko.net / 24 comments

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition t3x.org / 47 comments

The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval arxiv.org / 12 comments

OpenAI tackling life extension with LLMs openai.com / 1 comments

Grok Code Fast 1 x.ai / 385 comments

Essential Coding Theory [pdf] cse.buffalo.edu / 45 comments

Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT gally.net / 27 comments

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