top 50% hacker news stories for today

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/claude-fable-5-1/

43 minutes ago

11 upvotes – 1 comments

Mac App Store Apps Can Now Drop Support for Intel Macs

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/01/mac-app-store-intel-mac-support/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

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

7 hours ago

5 changes
932 upvotes – 879 comments

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

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

15 hours ago

★ 11.6k Kotlin GPL-3.0
832 upvotes – 246 comments

Fastpotify

https://fastpotify.rocks/

22 hours ago

806 upvotes – 534 comments

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

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

15 hours ago

1 change
578 upvotes – 149 comments

Hang on to Your Firefox

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

5 hours ago

497 upvotes – 265 comments

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

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

9 hours ago

★ 2.2k GPL-3.0+
467 upvotes – 199 comments

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

https://danluu.com/zitron/

7 hours ago

413 upvotes – 501 comments

GPU World

https://www.gpuworld.org/

22 hours ago

392 upvotes – 270 comments

Restroom Archive

https://restroomarchive.com

22 hours ago

365 upvotes – 83 comments

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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

12 hours ago

308 upvotes – 106 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

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

5 hours ago

243 upvotes – 118 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/

9 hours ago

201 upvotes – 207 comments

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

https://ambientcss.vercel.app/

10 hours ago

193 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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

10 hours ago

183 upvotes – 204 comments

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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

8 hours ago

182 upvotes – 145 comments

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

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

5 hours ago

171 upvotes – 125 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

12 hours ago

161 upvotes – 179 comments

Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)

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

13 hours ago

1 change
154 upvotes – 218 comments

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

https://moviescenemap.com/

9 hours ago

152 upvotes – 28 comments

Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

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

8 hours ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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

20 hours ago

146 upvotes – 147 comments

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

https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream

9 hours ago

★ 129 Swift MIT
142 upvotes – 86 comments

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

https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell

23 hours ago

★ 119 C++ MIT
142 upvotes – 50 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 day ago

134 upvotes – 83 comments

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

https://www.norirobotics.com/

8 hours ago

115 upvotes – 40 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/

9 hours ago

1 change
111 upvotes – 72 comments

Io_uring Without Readahead

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

12 hours ago

105 upvotes – 35 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/

10 hours ago

96 upvotes – 139 comments

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

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

23 hours ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush

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

5 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 102 comments

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

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

5 hours ago

1 change
92 upvotes – 40 comments

EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

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

10 hours ago

90 upvotes – 134 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

11 hours ago

1 change
89 upvotes – 112 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/

16 hours ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

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

5 hours ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

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

22 hours ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

74 upvotes – 237 comments

Tailcat: Tailscale Without Tailscale, by Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailcat

23 hours ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/adopt-a-pixel/

16 hours ago

70 upvotes – 60 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

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

7 hours ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975

14 hours ago

62 upvotes – 110 comments

DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-08-31-doltlite-beta/

1 day ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services

https://www.nber.org/digest/202609/urban-congestion-pricing-and-response-times-emergency-medical-services

11 hours ago

57 upvotes – 110 comments

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

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

3 hours ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments
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