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I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

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higeorge13 13h ago on HN
This is incredible use of AI tools. Big kudos!
wartywhoa23 13h ago on HN
Found a planet and saved a granny. Wake me up when this planet is acknowledged by any astonomer community with more say than r/ClaudeAI.
thiht 9h ago on HN
Like NASA?
k310 12h ago on HN
Planet Claude?

Asking for a friend.

HackerThemAll 12h ago on HN
Hope not.
car 12h ago on HN
Claire maybe?
OzzyB 59m ago on HN
Claudina
soltanov 12h ago on HN
Call me when peer review confirms it; until then, it is noise fitting noise. (Reason: Clean cut through the hype directly to scientific validation.)
soltanov 7h ago on HN
I don't understand the downvotes on this topic. Almost everybody is in grey :)
wartywhoa23 3h ago on HN
The color of truth on HN.
handoflixue 44m ago on HN
It's hacker news, not academia news.

Dismissing something for lacking formal academic review is counter to the ethos of the site, and the link itself mentions that verification is coming in a month and there's at least a loose consensus of actual people that this might be valid.

If they'd said "excited to see if this replicates in November!" I would have at least believed that they'd read the link and/or had some interest in the topic.

I don't see any value in "this topic doesn't interest me", though

justsomehnguy 24m ago on HN
That's the usual state of things. I even vouched for a green comment because it was in a spirit yet for some it was not.
_fuchs 12h ago on HN
So much AI in the writing. If you dont care to write i do not care to read.
frmrtntn 4h ago on HN
It's interesting that a few months ago your sentiment would have been upvoted. I've noticed recently that things seem to be flipping around. Sadly, I think it's inevitable that people will accept a form of communication that consists of people trading slop. Even worse, the author lies about using AI for the writeup in the comments.
tcdent 55m ago on HN
Commenting about AI tone in an article is the new commenting about the contrast between the font color and the background being too narrow. Nobody wants to hear it over and over and over again on every thread.
handoflixue 50m ago on HN
My good sir, I regret to inform you that the informality of the English language has been in decline for quite some time. Possibly since that vulgar bard Shakespeare abandoned all pretense of a shared language and raised a generation that thinks words like "fashionable"[sic!!] are real words.

However, it is notable that the rules of this particular venue request one be charitable to your fellow forum goers, and thus the admonition that their preferred communication is "slop" is generally considered unwelcome.

Would that you had only been able to word your own communication is in proper vocabulary and grammar; alas, I must conclude that even as you reject modernity, you have embraced the "slop" of the past.

But to address your last sentence: OP explicitly admits to using AI in the Reddit comments, and apologizes for it. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wzw8zd/i_think_i.... If you are going to repeat this libel, at least have the decency to provide some sort of citation

ContinuityLab 12h ago on HN
Cool discovery, but I'd be real curious about the false-positive rate when letting coding agents loose on raw astronomical telemetry. Hallucinations in data reduction are no joke.
pizza234 12h ago on HN
From the discussion:

> even got NASA to point a telescope at it for confirmation

colijobles 11h ago on HN
with a proper stats harness the false positive rate can be brought well down to acceptable levels
roosterIllusi0n 6m ago on HN
If you can set the criteria for testing that a human would also use, then any llm can do the job.

What is uncool is how people are using cloud based AI and their universities are not providing self hosted models that keep data within the university. Cloud AI is useless due to it being no different than publishing everything you do publicly.

colijobles 11h ago on HN
Brilliant application. Imagine the progress we could make with models post trained on scientific process and a good agentic process.

I've been tinkering with the latter for the last couple of months. Yesterday my system made some progress on instabilities on a particular superconductive system: https://colinocallaghan.com/autonomous-ai-research/Spatial-P...

__alias 11h ago on HN
Laughed at the reddit comment

> "We got vibe astronomy before GTA6"

giancarlostoro 28m ago on HN
We got adobe suite in Rust vibe coded before GTA6 as well.

https://getartcraft.com/apps

Friend sent me this one, kinda glad people are learning what I learned with Claude 4.6… you can build anything at this point.

amirkhanian 10h ago on HN
Not an astronomer, but I'm a non-programmer who spent two months building a fairly big web app with Claude, so the false-positive question is the one I'd ask too.

What saved me wasn't asking Claude whether it was right (it almost always says yes). It was checks that don't depend on its own report: run it on data where you already know the answer, and give a fresh session only the result and ask it to break it.

For a planet hunt I guess that means hiding a few fake planets in real data to see if it finds them, and running the same pipeline on shuffled data to see how many "planets" it finds in pure noise.

elzbardico 58m ago on HN
Plot twist: The discovery is valid. But we figure out the author was not a innocent PM, but a team of astronomers working for Anthropic, And Anthropic's marketing department come up with the idea of crediting it to a PM. :-D
schiffern 40m ago on HN
Sounds about right.

"Vibe-turfing"?

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