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Shakos Metaheuristics

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Shakos Metaheuristics is a personal blog at shakoist.substack.com about data and ai. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Against Time-Series Foundation Models”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a critique of time-series foundation models, under the title "Against time-series foundation models". One commenter called it an interesting read that makes the same points they had made.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Heuristics for rationality, life, and heuristics.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Against Time-Series Foundation Models
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. magimas · 2026-03-31Recommends
    I think this could be an interesting read for you, I read it last week and it kind of argues the same points: https://shakoist.substack.com/p/against-time-series-foundati...

    Comment linking /p/against-time-series-foundation-models

    on “Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context”
  2. Submitted Why Business Data Science Irritates Me as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Against Time-Series Foundation Models as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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