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On this episode of Coder Caffeine, Maker Mantras Edition, we are guided by a powerful quote from John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and legendary programmer behind Doom and Quake , and practice a powerful mantra that reminds us that breakthroughs aren’t born from speed — they’re carved step by step through unwavering focus. Creds Community! Remember to let focus sharpen your effort, pursue your goal until it's your destiny - and always keep coding!

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025. (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

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Original text by Jim Black . Previous John Carmack episode: The Steve Jobs Rollercoaster . Peter Graffagnino’s appearance at NeXTEVNT 2015 . Peter is interviewed by fellow Pixar veteran Michael Johnson. Some of the original Mac team demonstrating Steve Jobs’ favourite hand gesture (scroll down). John Carmack’s appearance at Macworld San Francisco 1999 . “The only thing you want to do with the Mac as a serious gamer is you wanna pull out the silly one button mouse and plug in a three button mouse pretty quick.” Steve Jobs Deer Hunter quote from Macworld New York 1998 .

Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: dbrand's "Trypophobic" Apple Vision Pro Faceplate TouchDesk On Apple Vision Pro NBA Apple Vision Pro App's Tabletop View First PlayStation VR2 Game To Support Hand Tracking Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Super Bowl Ads With A-List Celebrities SideQuest & Meta Dependency Android XR Will Let Apps Access The Passthrough Camera View Anduril Taking Over The IVAS Program, Replacing HoloLens John Carmack's Comments On PC VR And Standalone VR

What if you could browse the web… from Mars? 🌌 In a cosmic catnip moment, John Carmack shares purr-spectives on solving the "Mars-ternet" problem—where every whisker-twitch of communication with Earth faces minutes of latency! 🐱 In his response to Elon Musk, Carmack proposes a clever blend of tech tricks: Starship data caches, AI-driven replies for those looooong waits, and neural networks simulating answers mid-delay. His solutions are sci-fi worthy but paws-itively practical. If we’re serious about setting up Martian colonies, solving this latency is the fur-st step! 🚀 Related Tweets: Elon Musk’s Tweet John Carmack’s Response In this episode: Carmack’s approach to Mars internet latency Creative solutions like Starship caching and AI batching Neural networks filling in the lag with smart replies How Starships might act as repeaters for smooth Mars-Earth comms #MarsNet #SpaceTech #JohnCarmack #AI #Latency

In this episode, we’ve got a chat with legendary engineer, innovator and video game developer John Carmack Carmack sat down for a fireside chat with Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Micheal Bowling to discuss the future of artificial general intelligence, the importance of an open-source philosophy while working on ground-breaking ideas, and a look back at how Carmack’s work on Wolfenstein and Doom changed videogames forever. Carmack was at Amii HQ to announce his latest partnership with Amii Scientific Advisor Rich Sutton to advance artificial general intelligence. Production Credits: Lynda Vang, Chris Onciul - Video Production, Jen Tomski - Social Media Music Credits: Main Theme - Brooklyn Bridge by Lunareh

In today’s episode, our host, Head of RL, and Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth is joined by John Carmack, former Reality Labs Consulting CTO who is currently heading up AGI at Keen Technologies. John Carmack is one of the most influential technologists of our time, and his work has shaped multiple generations of software and platforms. As a co-founder of video game company id Software, Carmack developed titles including Wolfenstein 3D , Doom and Quake , which pioneered new approaches to technologies like 3D graphics and online multiplayer gaming. But Carmack’s impact goes well beyond gaming. In 2013 Carmack left id Software to become the CTO of Oculus VR, where he helped the company pioneer a new era of virtual reality devices. In 2014 Oculus VR was acquired by Meta and Carmack played a key role in the development of the VR technologies that Meta has developed ever since, which formed the foundation for its long term vision to build for the metaverse. In short, if you’ve ever played a video game or worn a VR headset, you’ve experienced John Carmack’s legacy. And now, after stepping down from his role at Meta at the end of 2022, Carmack is setting off on a new phase of his career, founding Keen Technologies to work on the pursuit of artificial general intelligence. There’s plenty for Carmack and Boz to talk about, and they cover it all this week, from the incredible new era of AI that’s emerging today to his philosophy on programming, building great software and making users happy. And as a bonus, Carmack’s recommended reading list for the best sci-fi to understand today’s AI boom, and thoughts on The Last of Us and turning games into TV shows. For feedback and suggestions, drop Boz a message @boztank on Instagram or Twitter . Follow John Carmack on Twitter, @id_AA_Carmack .

Beat Saber is the most popular vr game in the world even 4 years post its release. Beat saber has made over 100 million dollars in sales on the quest platform alone, but why is beat saber so good? With the help of Former Oculus CTO John Carmack we can reverse engineer beat saber to find the 5 aspects that make it the biggest game in VR. VR Quickie is your fast stop for VR news, games, updates and more: vrquickie.com Getting a new quest? Get $30 free store credit on me by using my referral code: https://www.oculus.com/referrals/link/QuestQuickie/

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – InsideTracker : https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – Indeed : https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit – Blinkist : https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium – Eight Sleep : https://www.eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savings – Athletic Greens : https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil EPISODE LINKS: John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack Books mentioned: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: https://amzn.to/3SkNZER Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D: https://amzn.to/3QlOqg8 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) – Introduction (09:49) – Programming languages (40:53) – Modern programming (50:55) – Day in the life (58:45) – Hard work<br /

In this bonus episode, Andrew and John make a new friend. Patreon supporter John Carmack joins the pod to discuss ableism, mental health, veganism, and being in the studio during the recording of Engine of a Million Plots. Plus, John breaks down the new Five Iron Frenzy record and tells us which songs mean the most to him.

The co-founder of id Software shares his collection of Steve Jobs stories. Published by John Carmack at F—book . Audio from the Macworld San Francisco 2000 keynote , October 1999 iMac DV launch event , and WWDC 2007 keynote .

Where do you come up with all the extra time to do all these extra things? [Improving the performance of Ferrari’s, learning Judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, building a rocket company on the side etc..] I like to tell people you need to get enough sleep. If I don’t get 8 hours of sleep I start falling down. But there is a lot of hours left in the week after getting 8 hours of sleep . What John learned from wrestling when he was younger: The wrestler ethos is embrace the grind . I was always obsessed but if I had more discipline when I was younger I would have been better off . How John started learning Judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in his 30s: I went to a Judo gym and trained with a Cuban Olympian. It was a much more serious training environment. I did what I always do on something. I studied. I got the instructionals and the tapes and started working my way through them. I got pretty good at it. Then my wife got me a year of private lessons with Carlos Machado . That certainly took me up several levels. There is value in finding where your limits are: A lot of people don’t understand how a technical, brainy person would appreciate practicing Judo. There is a value to getting people to feel the physicality of it. It is valuable for people to push as hard as they can and still can’t get through. It is valuable to find the extent of what you can and can’t do. To find the limits of what your body can do. I think that is good for everybody to understand at some level. Difficulty makes you stronger: Sometimes you are the hammer and sometimes you are the nail. A lot of people go through their life without ever really internalizing that. Sometimes you get your assed kicked. You can come back stronger after that. Full video here . Learn from founders who came before you. Every week I read a biography of a founder and tell you what I learned on Founders podcast . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidsnotes.substack.com