10.9.26 | DeepSeek 4.1 Flash industry calm, Whistle speech to text compact, Man's parents coffee machine data usage

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

(01:55) - Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

(03:16) - Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

(04:44) - I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

(06:04) - Yes, and

(07:16) - Theranos.world

(08:15) - ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

(09:25) - OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

(10:55) - Beauty in DVD Menus

(12:17) - Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

(13:36) - Outro

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000488Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427 Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days-3416399/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995495 I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986882 Yes, and https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003796 Theranos.world https://www.theranos.world/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009295 ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011928 OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002650 Beauty in DVD Menus https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005527 Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985548