top 20 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

44 minutes ago

12 upvotes – 6 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/

30 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

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

1 day ago

1 change
816 upvotes – 176 comments

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

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata

12 hours ago

★ 11k C++ MIT
613 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

5 hours ago

★ 482 Swift MIT1 change
359 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
277 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

242 upvotes – 352 comments

Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening

https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/

9 hours ago

202 upvotes – 138 comments

In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

https://energytransition.org/2026/09/in-ukraine-distributed-renewables-foil-russias-assaults/

17 hours ago

164 upvotes – 187 comments

Religious scholars met with Anthropic

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html

23 hours ago

2 changes
156 upvotes – 402 comments

We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

https://play.runescape.com/4

1 day ago

148 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

https://github.com/allenv0/SCM

16 hours ago

★ 259 JavaScript MIT
139 upvotes – 65 comments

Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

https://github.com/PowderworksCode/headstart

19 hours ago

★ 38 Rust
128 upvotes – 30 comments

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next

https://gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/

16 hours ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children

https://teachyourkids.substack.com/p/rejection-sensitivity-in-gifted-and

13 hours ago

102 upvotes – 77 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/

6 hours ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Bill Draper has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/william-draper-dead.html

13 hours ago

2 changes
80 upvotes – 19 comments
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