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

43 points • by pyduan • today at 7:07 AM • 14 comments • view on HN

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colijobles • today at 8:56 AM

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...

ContinuityLab • today at 8:05 AM

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.

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__alias • today at 9:30 AM

Laughed at the reddit comment

> "We got vibe astronomy before GTA6"

soltanov • today at 7:54 AM

Call me when peer review confirms it; until then, it is noise fitting noise. (Reason: Clean cut through the hype directly to scientific validation.)

higeorge13 • today at 7:26 AM

This is incredible use of AI tools. Big kudos!

k310 • today at 7:37 AM

Planet Claude?

Asking for a friend.

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amirkhanian • today at 10:09 AM

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wartywhoa23 • today at 7:33 AM

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.

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_fuchs • today at 7:59 AM

So much AI in the writing. If you dont care to write i do not care to read.