HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-01

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

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

    1419 points · HN #49525378

  2. 02

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

    924 points · HN #49520022

  3. 03

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

    879 points · HN #49526069

  4. 04

    Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] (youtube.com)

    638 points · HN #49503521

  5. 05

    Fastpotify (fastpotify.rocks)

    855 points · HN #49517448

  6. 06

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

    590 points · HN #49521973

  7. 07

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

    562 points · HN #49523754

  8. 08

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

    671 points · HN #49519939

  9. 09

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

    307 points · HN #49523387

  10. 10

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

    495 points · HN #49527396

  11. 11

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

    343 points · HN #49524320

  12. 12

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

    254 points · HN #49522897

  13. 13

    American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died (simpleflying.com)

    385 points · HN #49493468

  14. 14

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

    265 points · HN #49525297

  15. 15

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

    240 points · HN #49524447

  16. 16

    Restroom Archive (restroomarchive.com)

    384 points · HN #49517624

  17. 17

    Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination (datacolada.org)

    365 points · HN #49516199

  18. 18

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

    152 points · HN #49527232

  19. 19

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

    336 points · HN #49529132

  20. 20

    GPU World (gpuworld.org)

    403 points · HN #49517584

  21. 21

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

    201 points · HN #49525153

  22. 22

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

    185 points · HN #49528895

  23. 23

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

    125 points · HN #49528057

  24. 24

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

    178 points · HN #49527595

  25. 25

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

    271 points · HN #49525160

  26. 26

    Lion-man (wikipedia.org)

    148 points · HN #49494181

  27. 27

    Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)

    219 points · HN #49516059

  28. 28

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

    157 points · HN #49517297

  29. 29

    Run macOS Software on Linux (darlinghq.org)

    296 points · HN #49515830

  30. 30

    Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public (wallpaper.com)

    124 points · HN #49484004