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Court Rejects Erin Patterson’s Appeal in Mushroom Murders Case

30 October 2026 at 00:48
Judges took away the possibility of parole for an Australian woman, Erin Patterson, and rejected a bid to overturn her conviction over deadly beef Wellington lunch.

Β© William West/Agence France-Presse β€” Getty Images

Erin Patterson leaving the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 2025.

How Common Is Ballot Stacking? What to Know as Conflict Roils Alaska Senate Race.

30 October 2026 at 00:39
As a conflict over candidates roils the Alaskan Senate race, here’s a look back at the political practice over the years.

Β© Doug Mills/The New York Times; Christopher Miller for The New York Times

The director of Obsession put a new horror short on YouTube

29 October 2026 at 23:57

Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession, just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a little graphic, but it's a fun one to watch if you're looking for something scary ahead of Halloween on Saturday.

Barker wrote, directed, and edited "Mama Bear," according to the description for the video, which was published on his that's a bad idea YouTube channel. The description also has a note thanking Windows for "sponsoring this short film," and Barker was featured in an Instagram video earlier this week …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Intel says it’s selling every affordable laptop chip it can make

29 October 2026 at 23:42
Vector illustration of the Intel logo.

During Intel's latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips "is outstripping supply." According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has "seen significant growth in Wildcat Lake. It's coming exactly at the right time because it's cost-optimized and we're seeing a lot of focus in that regard."

As shortages of RAM and other components have driven up PC prices over recent months, Intel's Wildcat Lake chips have been appearing in new lower-cost Windows laptops on par with the MacBook Neo, like the new Dell XPS 13 or the HP Omnibook 5 14. Wildcat Lake laptops like …

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Newly Freed American Describes His Years in Russian Prison

29 October 2026 at 23:32
Stephen James Hubbard, the retired teacher arrested soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, said he sometimes lost hope.

Β© U.S. Government, via Reuters

Stephen James Hubbard with relatives and U.S. officials aboard a flight to the United States after his release from Russian prison, in a photo released by the U.S. government.

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

By: falperc
29 October 2026 at 23:25

Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM is turing complete btw) and exchange them with the actual operations, essentially creating an alternative to NumPy (a 65000x slower one). Thus, I am proud to present DOOMFORMER. Here are a list of things DOOMFORMER can do :

It can classify MNIST digits, even if you write these digits on the map!

It can talk(kinda)

You can use it to make decisions, so, it can play DOOM. Yes! You can play DOOM with thousands of DOOM games now! The marine's mind can be controlled by DOOM, playing on a map generated by DOOMFORMER. Truly, the possibilities are endless, and even larger-scale training of DOOMFORMER could be done on a measly T4.

If anyone would like to help me scale this up and make crazier things, I'd love to work together.


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