top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-09-01

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1

6 days ago

5 changes
1415 upvotes – 1392 comments

Hang on to Your Firefox

https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/hang-on-to-your-firefox

6 days ago

990 upvotes – 534 comments

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656

6 days ago

★ 11.7k Kotlin GPL-3.0
924 upvotes – 279 comments

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

https://danluu.com/zitron/

6 days ago

876 upvotes – 1055 comments

Fastpotify

https://fastpotify.rocks/

6 days ago

855 upvotes – 569 comments

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs

https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/

6 days ago

1 change
668 upvotes – 166 comments

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/

6 days ago

589 upvotes – 204 comments

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/work_items/1566

6 days ago

★ 2.2k GPL-3.0+
562 upvotes – 275 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/

6 days ago

494 upvotes – 257 comments

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

6 days ago

477 upvotes – 297 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM

6 days ago

471 upvotes – 375 comments

The browser's main thread is expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/

6 days ago

1 change
434 upvotes – 151 comments

GPU World

https://www.gpuworld.org/

6 days ago

402 upvotes – 283 comments

Restroom Archive

https://restroomarchive.com

6 days ago

383 upvotes – 86 comments

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga

https://moviescenemap.com/

6 days ago

343 upvotes – 49 comments

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

https://lws.io/blog/my-local-model-setup/

6 days ago

335 upvotes – 199 comments

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

https://ambientcss.vercel.app/

6 days ago

307 upvotes – 99 comments

Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-postal-service-new-mail-ballot-system/

6 days ago

304 upvotes – 318 comments

Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas

6 days ago

270 upvotes – 59 comments

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc

6 days ago

265 upvotes – 268 comments

Fine, I'll build my own text editor

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/01/text-editor/

6 days ago

263 upvotes – 262 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522897

6 days ago

251 upvotes – 352 comments

Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/

6 days ago

246 upvotes – 193 comments

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dwarf-fortress-creator-says-the-industrys-in-shambles-over-ai-and-layoff-happy-ceos-everyone-i-know-their-bosses-are-slowly-getting-psychosis/

6 days ago

241 upvotes – 250 comments

Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s

https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream

6 days ago

★ 303 Swift MIT
239 upvotes – 118 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html

6 days ago

2 changes
231 upvotes – 117 comments

Invisible Companies

https://colossus.com/article/invisible-companies/

6 days ago

202 upvotes – 68 comments

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

https://www.norirobotics.com/

6 days ago

201 upvotes – 66 comments

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

https://www.hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-can-make-you-suck-faster-too

6 days ago

194 upvotes – 173 comments

Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

https://masteranza.github.io/weedout/

6 days ago

185 upvotes – 84 comments

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/

6 days ago

1 change
178 upvotes – 101 comments

EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-courts-dont-rewrite-copyright-over-ai-hype

6 days ago

163 upvotes – 194 comments

Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building

https://www.starelevator.com/projects/star-elevator-modernization-of-the-metropolis-trust-building

1 week ago

1 change
159 upvotes – 55 comments

Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)

https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/

6 days ago

1 change
157 upvotes – 234 comments

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell

6 days ago

★ 163 C++ MIT
157 upvotes – 53 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu

6 days ago

1 change
156 upvotes – 62 comments

The efficient frontier of LLM inference

https://www.baseten.co/blog/the-efficient-frontier-of-llm-inference/

6 days ago

154 upvotes – 46 comments

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/08/23/Tektronix-TDS7104-Refurbishing.html

6 days ago

151 upvotes – 66 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters

https://wasmi-labs.github.io/blog/posts/wasmi-v2.0/

6 days ago

2 changes
138 upvotes – 22 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/

6 days ago

138 upvotes – 62 comments

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/

1 week ago

138 upvotes – 88 comments

Decompiler Explorer

https://dogbolt.org

6 days ago

135 upvotes – 8 comments

Topologist's Map of the World

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/01/small-world-20/

6 days ago

133 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

https://hnmatchmaker.com/

6 days ago

125 upvotes – 46 comments

Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush

https://www.dyson.com/oral-care/electric-toothbrush/camerajet/ceramic-ultra-blue

6 days ago

1 change
123 upvotes – 134 comments

Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/01/thanks-lake-ontario-mapquest-is-popular-all-over-again/

6 days ago

1 change
122 upvotes – 81 comments

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-colorchecker-photographys-most-important-24-squares-turns-50/

6 days ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Higher Multipoles of the Cow

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00506

6 days ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Io_uring Without Readahead

https://frn.sh/io-uring/

6 days ago

121 upvotes – 45 comments

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it

https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/

6 days ago

1 change
120 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

https://owntime.app/

6 days ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubisofts-for-honor-will-block-steamos-linux-on-september-10/

6 days ago

115 upvotes – 153 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522896

6 days ago

111 upvotes – 501 comments

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

https://www.kevin.md/the-business-card-that-lights-up.md/

6 days ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept

https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/saab-enters-collaborative-combat-aircraft-race-high-end-concept

6 days ago

1 change
104 upvotes – 129 comments

EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-gov-newsom-veto-californias-ab-1709

6 days ago

96 upvotes – 152 comments

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" faster than US Government

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/google-maps-renames-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-even-faster-than-us-government/

6 days ago

96 upvotes – 60 comments

Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24j5192j7jo

6 days ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

A Small Telescope That Surprised Me

https://adfr.io/thoughts/20260831_a_small_telescope_that_surprised_me/

6 days ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

Git Submodules as a Package Manager

https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/01/git-submodules-as-a-package-manager.html

6 days ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-on-state-land-next-to-roads

6 days ago

89 upvotes – 57 comments

Getting Started with AT Protocol

https://bnb.im/posts/atproto-essential-resources/

6 days ago

2 changes
85 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game

https://michaelteter.com/flyby.html

6 days ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

https://antigravity.google/docs/boost/

6 days ago

82 upvotes – 58 comments
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