Hacker News on Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1(anthropic.com)

1332 points by denysvitali 1 month ago | 1269 comments

Anthropic documentation page describing new features, breaking changes, and capability improvements in Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link(github.com)

872 points by hexa555 1 month ago | 257 comments

GitHub issue in the AnkiDroid repo asking for community help after Google Play stopped allowing the app's Open Collective donation link.

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?(danluu.com)

804 points by jatins 1 month ago | 905 comments

Dan Luu essay evaluating the accuracy of AI skeptic Ed Zitron's predictions, starting with his 2024 claim that Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying.

Fastpotify(fastpotify.rocks)

792 points by nreece 1 month ago | 524 comments

Landing page for Fastpotify, a lightweight native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows with local playback, library access, and Spotify Connect controls.

Hang on to Your Firefox(newsonaut.com)

701 points by speckx 1 month ago | 367 comments

A Newsonaut blog post titled "Hang on to your Firefox!" arguing that readers should keep using Firefox, opening with the "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" adage.

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs(mvakde.github.io)

578 points by porridgeraisin 1 month ago | 149 comments

Personal blog post describing a small transformer trained from scratch in 1.5 hours on an RTX 5090 that scores 44% on ARC-AGI-1 for 67 cents.

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS(blog.mozilla.org)

547 points by HieronymusBosch 1 month ago | 173 comments

Mozilla's Distilled blog post announcing a built-in ad blocker for the Firefox browser on iOS.

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users(gitlab.com)

515 points by erikvanoosten 1 month ago | 211 comments

GitLab issue reporting that Aurora Store returns a "Server busy, please try again later" error when installing apps via anonymous accounts.

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video](youtube.com)

459 points by feb 1 month ago | 344 comments

Y Combinator YouTube video titled "The World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew," about a record-size electric plane's first flight.

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

The browser's main thread is expensive(kciter.so)

408 points by kciter 1 month ago | 141 comments

A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.

GPU World(gpuworld.org)

371 points by simonpure 1 month ago | 244 comments

GPU World is a contest site asking "What if the world had one GPU per person?", with pages for prizes, judges, timeline, guidelines and submissions.

Restroom Archive(restroomarchive.com)

353 points by jcalx 1 month ago | 80 comments

The Restroom Archive is a catalog of 3D-scanned public restrooms and toilets, mostly in NYC bars and restaurants, browsable by list, grid, or map.

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses(krebsonsecurity.com)

304 points by tatersolid 1 month ago | 170 comments

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga(moviescenemap.com)

303 points by Flightmussy 1 month ago | 39 comments

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS(ambientcss.vercel.app)

294 points by kikkupico 1 month ago | 87 comments

Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems(cbsnews.com)

254 points by ck2 1 month ago | 190 comments

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC(ersc.io)

251 points by steveklabnik 1 month ago | 194 comments

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini(lws.io)

245 points by raybb 1 month ago | 151 comments

Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence(worldlabs.ai)

227 points by johnsutor 1 month ago | 53 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

225 points by whoishiring 1 month ago | 248 comments

Wendell Berry has died(nytimes.com)

225 points by Curiositry 1 month ago | 115 comments

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

218 points by carloslfu 1 month ago | 100 comments

Fine, I'll build my own text editor(dbushell.com)

210 points by Alephinitesimal 1 month ago | 201 comments

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

186 points by AntonioLi 1 month ago | 60 comments

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI(pcgamer.com)

174 points by Limb 1 month ago | 153 comments

Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos(masteranza.github.io)

165 points by masteranza 1 month ago | 72 comments

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards(openai.com)

165 points by jithinraj 1 month ago | 84 comments

Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit(9to5mac.com)

155 points by colinprince 1 month ago | 108 comments

Invisible Companies(colossus.com)

147 points by ltononro 1 month ago | 52 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents(zed.dev)

141 points by nsm 1 month ago | 57 comments

The efficient frontier of LLM inference(baseten.co)

137 points by philipkiely 1 month ago | 39 comments

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3(github.com)

136 points by jombib 1 month ago | 40 comments

EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype(eff.org)

135 points by DeepLogin 1 month ago | 124 comments

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope(tomverbeure.github.io)

135 points by jwise0 1 month ago | 59 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters(wasmi-labs.github.io)

124 points by herobird 1 month ago | 15 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora(blog.cloudflare.com)

122 points by torutofu 1 month ago | 55 comments

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50(dpreview.com)

119 points by sohkamyung 1 month ago | 23 comments

Topologist's Map of the World(futilitycloset.com)

115 points by beardyw 1 month ago | 34 comments

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up(jkm.dev)

114 points by fagnerbrack 1 month ago | 62 comments

Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs(anildash.com)

108 points by Anon84 1 month ago | 112 comments

Decompiler Explorer(dogbolt.org)

106 points by tripdout 1 month ago | 6 comments

Io_uring Without Readahead(frn.sh)

100 points by porridgeraisin 1 month ago | 32 comments

Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"(hnmatchmaker.com)

99 points by all2 1 month ago | 41 comments

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it(idpro.org)

99 points by andychiare 1 month ago | 69 comments

Higher Multipoles of the Cow(arxiv.org)

97 points by MrOrelliOReilly 1 month ago | 25 comments

Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush(dyson.com)

82 points by noja 1 month ago | 89 comments

Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game(michaelteter.com)

82 points by michaelteter 1 month ago | 51 comments

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

81 points by whoishiring 1 month ago | 251 comments

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it(kevin.md)

80 points by thekevintang 1 month ago | 22 comments

Git Submodules as a Package Manager(nesbitt.io)

80 points by ErenayDev 1 month ago | 28 comments

Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again(washingtonpost.com)

78 points by reaperducer 1 month ago | 54 comments

Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept(aviationweek.com)

78 points by rbanffy 1 month ago | 66 comments

Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities(owntime.app)

77 points by fmos 1 month ago | 37 comments

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too(hermit-tech.com)

77 points by degamad 1 month ago | 87 comments

Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways(wusf.org)

74 points by ilamont 1 month ago | 31 comments

Getting Started with AT Protocol(bnb.im)

71 points by evakhoury 1 month ago | 24 comments

A Small Telescope That Surprised Me(adfr.io)

67 points by speckx 1 month ago | 55 comments

I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf](sevanoland.com)

66 points by NaOH 1 month ago | 43 comments

Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10(gamingonlinux.com)

65 points by haunter 1 month ago | 58 comments