top 50% 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

The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley

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

48 minutes ago

Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks

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

1 hour ago

A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

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

34 minutes ago

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

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

1 day ago

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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

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

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

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

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

21 hours ago

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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

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

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

10 hours ago

In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

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

17 hours ago

Religious scholars met with Anthropic

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

23 hours ago

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We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

https://play.runescape.com/4

1 day ago

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

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

https://github.com/PowderworksCode/headstart

19 hours ago

★ 39 Rust

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

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

16 hours ago

Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children

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

13 hours ago

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

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

6 hours ago

Bill Draper has died

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

13 hours ago

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Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers

https://www.gadgetreview.com/apples-clean-design-is-stupidity-when-it-comes-to-hiding-fire-extinguishers

1 day ago

UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-prevent-unit-tracked-online-critics

19 hours ago

Blindsight (Watts Novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

9 hours ago

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh

3 hours ago

The evolution of effective altruism

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/10/01/how-effective-altruism-conquered-the-world

12 hours ago

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Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8WWZzoaR0

6 hours ago

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What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/09/whats-the-future-for-pure-math-research-in-the-age-of-ai/

17 hours ago

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Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/672

8 hours ago

★ 5.3k Python

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw4Jk

17 hours ago

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