top 10 hacker news stories for today

1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections

https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/1-in-8-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-infections-underscoring-the-importance-of-vaccines-experts-say

1 hour ago

18 upvotes – 4 comments

The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/magazine/gambling-prediction-markets-statistics.html

49 minutes ago

13 upvotes – 7 comments

Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks

https://www.ft.com/content/2c24ece3-ac99-43a8-b0e6-4a3867e37ebf

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 3 comments

A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

https://frn.sh/go-gc/

36 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438

1 day ago

1 change
817 upvotes – 177 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata

12 hours ago

★ 11.1k C++ MIT
614 upvotes – 285 comments

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/

1 day ago

588 upvotes – 297 comments

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

6 hours ago

★ 510 Swift MIT1 change
360 upvotes – 222 comments

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/

21 hours ago

1 change
278 upvotes – 288 comments

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/

6 hours ago

243 upvotes – 353 comments
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