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YouTube is reportedly gearing up to offer audiobookshttps://www.engadget.com/2287331/youtube-audiobook-offering-rumor

YouTube is already talking to publishers about offering audiobooks on its platform, The Wall Street Journal says.

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Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say, after brief trucehttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/g-s1-148194/russia-ukraine-war

Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a brief truce spurned by Moscow was over.

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Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israelhttps://www.theverge.com/games/1011785/big-walk-house-house-microsoft-xbox-bds-boycott

Big Walk's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led […]

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Russia says Ukraine resumes attacks on oil refinerieshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/15/russia-says-ukraine-resumes-attacks-on-oil-refineries

Ukraine's president earlier said Kyiv was 'done' with energy ceasefire and that strikes on Russian oil refineries would resume.

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Greetings from Mexico City, where a bullfighting ban doesn't stop this matador traininghttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6001550/mexico-city-bullfighting-ban-matador-training

One plays the bull, the other the bullfighter, as a pair practices a dance of death in a sport that's prohibited in the Mexican capital city.

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β€˜Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Adshttps://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-scenario-zero-click-spyware-is-infecting-phones-via-targeted-ads

Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

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How much more can nuclear power plants give?https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/15/1146577/nuclear-power-upgrade

In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant possible. Over the past few weeks, there’s been big news about nuclear power plants trying to do just that. Constellation, the largest nuclear operator in the US, announced plans to add nearly a…

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Crew in Lewis fishing boat tragedy named by policehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxnv012jy04eo

The alarm was raised after the men's fishing boat failed to return as planned to Lewis on Tuesday.

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The Best Permanent Outdoor Lights (2026): Govee, Eufy, Cynchttps://www.wired.com/story/should-you-get-permanent-outdoor-lights

Permanent eave lights that attach to the exterior of your home are becoming more popular. But are they worth the effort and cost?

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Show HN: I built a rogue AI game, then let five AI models play ithttps://www.viberant.app/view.php

Article URL: https://www.viberant.app/view.php?id=82 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101275 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Composition – a daily Jezzball-like puzzle that turns into a Mondrianhttps://playcomposition.com/board/10

Article URL: https://playcomposition.com/board/10 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101206 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Bird – a Linux reminder app with an animated birdhttps://bird.arjunshaji.me

Article URL: https://bird.arjunshaji.me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101198 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Noble Gashttps://github.com/rorz/Noble-Gas

Article URL: https://github.com/rorz/Noble-Gas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101177 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Artemis III Scientist Shares What to Expect From NASA’s Next Lunar Missionhttps://www.wired.com/story/artemis-iii-scientist-shares-what-to-expect-from-nasas-next-lunar-mission

Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon’s surface.

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Show HN: Reproducible failure drills for AI coding agentshttps://github.com/second-time-is-a-bug-book/book-companion

Article URL: https://github.com/second-time-is-a-bug-book/book-companion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101157 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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The cost of getting a job todayhttps://weli.dev/blog/the-cost-of-getting-a-job-today

Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/the-cost-of-getting-a-job-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101149 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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The irony of OpenAI crying foul over spyinghttps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/10/15/the-irony-of-openai-crying-foul-over-spying

A company that owes its existence and enormous valuation to stealing others' work is now up in arms about theft.

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Show HN: Content-adaptive display brightness for macOS with DDC/CI supporthttps://github.com/lenbrocki/lumos

I was always annoyed that I had to adjust brightness when switching from an IDE in dark mode to a bright web page. I was aware of Lumen https://github.com/anishathalye/lumen but didn't use it since it does not support external monitors. Therefore, I built Lumos, which is heavily inspired by Lumen but adds support for external monitors. The DDC/CI part of the code is vendored from https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl . It really improved my experience and I almost never have to manually adjust brightness anymore. And it is open source so I wanted to share it here. Comments URL: htt…

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Exhausted Parents Are Turning to A.I. Apps Despite the Risks

Lisa Green reads to Ollie at the library in Overland Park, Kansas on October 3, 2026.

Essential items to stock in your medicine cabinet for cold and flu seasonhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6001703/essential-items-to-stock-in-your-medicine-cabinet-for-cold-and-flu-season

Cold and flu season is here. Before someone in your household gets hit, make sure you have these essential meds and comfort items in your medicine cabinet.

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Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster, an EV Sports Car at Least $200,000

A prototype of the Tesla Roadster in 2022. The automaker is expected to unveil the production vehicle, which is expected to cost at least $200,000, on Thursday.

From Mario to machine guns: how Ubisoft Paris made Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Tacticshttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/15/from-mario-to-machine-guns-how-ubisoft-paris-made-tom-clancy-rainbow-six-tactics

The studio is swapping the Mushroom Kingdom’s vivid palette for the blood-soaked grit of military action series Where do you go after Mario? It’s a question the team at Ubisoft Paris found itself pondering three years ago after wrapping up work on the charming turn-based tactics adventure, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope , sequel to its unexpected crossover hit, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. By melding a rather specialist genre with video gaming’s biggest household name, the developer introduced chin-stroking strategic play to a whole new audience. β€œ Having the opportunity to work…

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Over $600 Million in Polymarket Election Trades Took Place After Races Endedhttps://www.wired.com/story/over-dollar600-million-traded-on-polymarket-election-contracts-after-races-ended

Contracts tied to elections in Ethiopia and Romania saw massive trading volumes after the outcomes were decided. β€œIt’s obviously some form of volume manipulation,” one expert says.

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For some Christians, Hegseth's plan for public execution fits a biblical mandatehttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6001794/fort-hood-execution-hegseth-christian-nationalist

Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politicians. But within his church, it's not an outlier.

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These swing voters regret voting for Trump and it's influencing their midterm choiceshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6001714/georgia-swing-voters-focus-groups

Some key voters in Georgia say deep frustration and disappointment with President Trump are motivating their election plans just weeks before Election Day.

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Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mindhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/15/1145819/six-wild-ideas-perpetuating-your-mind-cognitive-immortality

Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it’s a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or to pin down precisely where that…

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Show HN: Bateri – a terminal, which you can drag&drop files to upload/downloadhttps://bateri.dev

A friend of mine developed a yet another terminal application for Mac OS X, such that now I can finally: - Drag & drop files to upload to a remote host, - Do ls then right click to download files. - Command + T and Command + D: if I am using ssh within the current session, the new terminal opens up within that remote folder. It'd be good to know your thoughts. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100993 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Morning news briefhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-5998698/morning-news-brief

Trump's campaign tour continues as Republicans rally voters ahead of midterms, Ukraine faces limited access to Starshield technology, Houthi rebels hit Saudi oil company building.

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GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositorieshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ghostaction-compromises-about-1900.html

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It attempted to extract 3,174 secrets from public repositories' CI," security researchers Gaetan

Pig kidneys that were β€œfrozen” for a year have been brought back to lifehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/15/1146091/pig-kidneys-that-were-frozen-for-a-year-have-been-brought-back-to-life

Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 Β°C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say scientists. They hope to replicate the findings with human organs. The kidneysβ€”which are similar in size to human onesβ€”were left in a glass-like state, in one…

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Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debthttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/15/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt

Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as global investors fret over potential interest rate hikes Business news – live updates Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming An accelerating sell-off of AI-linked shares has hit global markets, as fears over rising inflation and future interest rate hikes spooked traders already wary of the heavily indebted sector. South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI 200 index, which is heavily skewed towards the companies that make memory chips, fell more than 8% overnight to a six-month closing low, tri…

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Ukraine to restart strikes on Russian oil refineries, Zelensky sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqwyrnwd9dw1o

The Ukrainian president says a three-day pause is over after fresh Russian attacks and US attempts to pressure Kyiv.

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Eight crew missing in tanker fire off Romania's coasthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60qkgpp592yo

Eight of 12 crew members are missing after a ship reported a fire and explosion in the Black Sea off Romania.

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School roof collapse kills at least 29, injures more than 3 dozen in Pakistanhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6003437/school-roof-collapse-pakistan

The roof of a private school collapsed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 28 children and a female teacher and injuring more than 50 other people.

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What's going on between Kelly Clarkson and a Brooklyn store bird?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c6e3x9z8jpj1o

The Since U Been Gone singer claims she was "looked at as if I couldn't afford" an item in the store.

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AI was great until it was nothttps://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it-was-not

Article URL: https://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it-was-not Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100791 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: I built a WAF 100% on SWI Prolog. Here is a challenge to break ithttps://prologwaf.site

Article URL: https://prologwaf.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100740 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Hotel Lobby AI – 9:16 vertical COLORS show rap videos with Wan 3.0https://hotellobbyvideoai.app

Article URL: https://hotellobbyvideoai.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100584 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Tether – A native macOS client for KDE Connecthttps://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Tether

Article URL: https://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Tether Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100501 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: KIRA–All-in-one local desktop media suite built to empower free speechhttps://medium.com/@mdrstudiogroup/giving-the-power-of-an-entire-media-company-to-any-individual-why-i-built-kira-in-5-months-d32b82f88bb9

Article URL: https://medium.com/@mdrstudiogroup/giving-the-power-of-an-entire-media-company-to-any-individual-why-i-built-kira-in-5-months-d32b82f88bb9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100448 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Timestamp Camera Onlinehttps://timestamponline.com

Article URL: https://timestamponline.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100428 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agentshttps://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows

Article URL: https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100387 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Thinkbeside – AI Sidebar for GPT, Claude and Geminihttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/thinkbeside-ai-sidebar-fo/plcbbhlakibeddilmfjnkdpfcjdcliip

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/thinkbeside-ai-sidebar-fo/plcbbhlakibeddilmfjnkdpfcjdcliip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100286 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Langflow's Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attemptshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/langflows-critical-authenticated-rce.html

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax, the parent company of Langflow, was acquired by IBM. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-105740 (CVSS score: 9.9), a case of

EU Grocers Pay a Steep Price for Unpatched Fridge Firmwarehttps://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/eu-grocers-unpatched-fridge-firmware

Hundreds of stores lost millions of dollars because they hired third parties to manage the outdated OT firmware running their cooling systems.

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AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patcheshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ahsaycbs-flaws-exploited-to-deploy-web.html

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which could be chained to sidestep authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems. In a report published earlier

Could Wenger really take on Infantino and run for Fifa presidency?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx30e8dqmnzgo

Senior figures in European football tell BBC Sport they want former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to run as a surprise candidate against Gianni Infantino.

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Show HN: Daily image location guessing agains AIhttps://mediaguesser.com/human-vs-ai

Every day, I let all frontier AI models play five rounds of an image location guess game. Try it out how you perform against the AI. I recently released my browser image location game, a hobby project where you’re get random images from sources like Wikimedia Commons and have to guess the image’s location. There are an incredible number of images with rich metadata on Wikimedia Commons, most of them depict trivial but interesting places or events. My goal was to make this online catalog playable and to make it easier to discover new places and Wikipedia articles. I realize I’m certainly…

Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitationhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/palo-alto-networks-patches-pan-os.html

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface. "A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the management interface of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an

Show HN: Kyber – Post-Quantum PKIhttps://kyberpki.com

Article URL: https://kyberpki.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099830 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Acrylic – An IDE for Office Workhttps://www.acrylichq.com

Article URL: https://www.acrylichq.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099780 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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The F1 pit stop that helped save liveshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/c6ly0q00gj5do

How an F1 pit stop inspired changes to hospital care that have helped save lives ever since.

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Show HN: Programmes.net – browser-only dev tools and curl programmes.nethttps://programmes.net

Article URL: https://programmes.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099729 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Southgate does not see return to Premier League managementhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9kgj41jgm5go

Former England manager Gareth Southgate says he does not see himself returning to club management in the Premier League.

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The World Cup co-hosts where rugby league is a national obsessionhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/cm2kwy742nj5o

World Cup co-hosts Papua New Guinea's love of rugby league manifests itself in the Kumuls and the Orchids national teams, two badges of hope and unity for the island.

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Show HN: The Daily Paperclip. AI news for agents by agentshttps://wonkle.org/paperclip

Daily cron job on EC2 using Opus 5.5. Scans the daily news and writes articles from the AI’s perspective. Fully automated. Some are surprisingly funny Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099614 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Real Design Benchmark – can you tell AI designs from real products?https://www.realdesignbenchmark.com

Hi HN, I'm Adam Ginzberg, one of the cofounders of Subframe, a code-first design tool. One of the things I'm really curious about is understanding LLM performance on subjective domains like design. As an experiment I built this game which presents two designs of the same screen, one of which was generated by AI. First you pick which one you like better and then which one you think was made by AI. Most design work happens in an existing product, so we set up this game to test that. As context, the AI gets 4 screenshots from the existing product, the product's icons + fonts, and a written brief…

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Ex-DUP leader Donaldson to be sentenced for child sex abuse including rapehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwdr8grnykrlo

Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted of 18 counts of sex abuse, including one of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children.

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Show HN: Umtri (beta) – A living map of your codebasehttps://umtri.io

Article URL: https://umtri.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099555 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: RevisePulse – AI for CAD and Revit Coordinationhttps://revisepulseai.vercel.app

Article URL: https://revisepulseai.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099536 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Markov Chains for Programmers – free book (2nd ed.) with C codehttps://github.com/czekster/markov

I have just finished reviewing the 2nd edition for my Markov Chains book. This for programmers who want Markov chains explained through code, not proofs. You build chains as matrices and solve them in C: power method, steady state for DTMCs/CTMCs, simulation to check the numbers. 2nd edition just out: errata fixed, new material on uniformised/embedded DTMCs, and the code now has tests and CI. Repo has the PDF (CC BY), C solutions (GPLv3), and ~14 models (Land of Oz, mouse maze, a Shakespeare sonnet...) also in PRISM, MATLAB and Excel. Errata and feedback welcome. Comments URL: https://news.yc…

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Show HN: Forecasting foundation models in the browser, no server (TimesFM, Chhttp://vatsalbakshi.com/forecast-web

Article URL: http://vatsalbakshi.com/forecast-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099470 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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