9.2.26 | Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions, Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
• (02:02) - How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
• (03:21) - Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
• (04:37) - The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
• (06:04) - Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
• (07:03) - Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
• (08:05) - The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
• (09:15) - True Rate of Unemployment
• (10:42) - FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
• (11:56) - Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
• (13:20) - Outro

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525378

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
https://danluu.com/zitron/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521973

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523387

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
https://moviescenemap.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524320

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525297

True Rate of Unemployment
https://www.lisep.org/tru
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530989

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621

Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524447