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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-02

  1. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 www.anthropic.com - 1181 comments 1262 points
  2. AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link github.com - 262 comments 886 points
  3. Hang on to Your Firefox www.newsonaut.com - 427 comments 836 points
  4. How accurate have Ed Zitron’s AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com - 792 comments 720 points
  5. I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs mvakde.github.io - 158 comments 622 points
  6. Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users gitlab.com - 227 comments 529 points
  7. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS blog.mozilla.org - 164 comments 487 points
  8. The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice simonwillison.net - 191 comments 418 points
  9. Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS ambientcss.vercel.app - 82 comments 276 points
  10. Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga moviescenemap.com - 38 comments 261 points
  11. True Rate of Unemployment www.lisep.org - 199 comments 239 points
  12. The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC ersc.io - 179 comments 239 points
  13. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses krebsonsecurity.com - 95 comments 230 points
  14. Dwarf Fortress’ creator says the industry’s in shambles over AI www.pcgamer.com - 228 comments 227 points
  15. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence www.worldlabs.ai - 53 comments 223 points
  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? - September 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 245 comments 220 points
  17. Apple reveals ‘shocking evidence’ from ex-employee’s MacBook in OpenAI suit 9to5mac.com - 156 comments 218 points
  18. Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s github.com - 99 comments 213 points
  19. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini lws.io - 131 comments 212 points
  20. Launch HN: Nori Robotics - YC S26 – A low-cost humanoid robot for development www.norirobotics.com - 53 comments 173 points
  21. EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype www.eff.org - 186 comments 163 points
  22. Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards openai.com - 70 comments 160 points
  23. Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs - 2025 www.anildash.com - 224 comments 156 points
  24. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks arxiv.org - 51 comments 156 points
  25. Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos masteranza.github.io - 65 comments 147 points
  26. Fine, I’ll build my own text editor dbushell.com - 121 comments 137 points
  27. Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope tomverbeure.github.io - 55 comments 129 points
  28. The efficient frontier of LLM inference www.baseten.co - 33 comments 125 points
  29. Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again www.washingtonpost.com - 77 comments 117 points
  30. Io_uring Without Readahead frn.sh - 35 comments 112 points