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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (01:41) - Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (02:58) - Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (04:48) - What is going on with ceiling fans (05:58) - A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (07:06) - Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (08:18) - Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data (09:40) - Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (10:48) - We ported the original Doom to SQL (12:21) - The Tao of Backup (13:22) - Outro Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/shttps://github.com/Niko1221/Stratahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953495Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space backhttps://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usagehttps://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957068What is going on with ceiling fanshttps://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fanshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917536A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDEhttps://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitchhttps://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959869Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Datahttps://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysningerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962012Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trashhttps://niklasroy.com/gtc/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930439We ported the original Doom to SQLhttps://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948300The Tao of Backuphttp://www.taobackup.com/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932236 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.