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.

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• (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=50000488

Whistle: 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