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1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622
28•colinprince•1h ago

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toasty228•51m ago
https://www.oatext.com/which-environment-makes-cancer.php

Always a good read, most cancers are environmental, and most of these are caused by obesity, bad diet and smoking/drinking, fix these four things in your life and you reduce your chances of getting cancer by 50%+

lanfeust6•12m ago
What's interesting is how low alcohol ranks compared to obesity and diet. It makes the recent moral panic following loose interpretations of the Lancet study seem hypocritical, if not misguided. If anything deserves a "may cause cancer" sticker, it's nitrate-ridden processed meat.

Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
103•rbanffy•1h ago•56 comments

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
260•damaru2•4h ago•73 comments

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
314•barry-cotter•2h ago•261 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
102•nicowaltz•2h ago•42 comments

Without the Hot Air

https://www.withouthotair.com/
26•0sake_rs•1h ago•11 comments

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-s...
187•ilamont•2h ago•112 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
96•czoido•5h ago•25 comments

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software...
181•mywacaday•2h ago•119 comments

The new Firefox design is here

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design-is-here/
30•timpera•46m ago•16 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
184•evakhoury•21h ago•26 comments

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-fo...
123•doener•1d ago•63 comments

The systems that no one will test

https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/
107•perone•1d ago•38 comments

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
6•ibobev•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI

https://github.com/EverMind-AI/Raven
24•cyfyifanchen•4h ago•16 comments

1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622
29•colinprince•1h ago•2 comments

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for...
289•randycupertino•18h ago•720 comments

Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second

https://4hiroshimas.info/
29•blondie9x•1h ago•17 comments

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
55•airhangerf15•1d ago•4 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
640•piotrgrabowski•22h ago•322 comments

The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-beatles-permeated-papers-academic-disciplines.html
10•pseudolus•2d ago•5 comments

Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote

https://countingfromzero.blog/2026/04/24/four-chi-26-papers-i-wish-i-wrote/
26•luu•2d ago•5 comments

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

https://www.startup-nights.ch/event/
36•sschueller•6h ago•18 comments

Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/optimizing-x264-settings-and-per-title-ladders.html
12•dabinat•2d ago•0 comments

Tank Body Problem

http://www.jimsitu.com
146•jimbooonooo•13h ago•32 comments

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/
263•logicallee•19h ago•96 comments

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster
126•nkko•16h ago•29 comments

Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World

https://evan-doorbell.com/
20•mikecarlton•5h ago•6 comments

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/gobeklitepe-burials-hundreds-of-scattered-bones/
153•yusufaytas•3d ago•42 comments

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

https://github.com/firelex/jeff
536•firelex•17h ago•203 comments

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
769•slowin•22h ago•635 comments