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

This is incredible use of AI tools. Big kudos!

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 · 7 hours ago

  Like NASA?

Planet Claude? Asking for a friend.

• HackerThemAll · 10 hours ago

  Hope not.

• car · 9 hours ago

  Claire maybe?

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 · 5 hours ago

  I don't understand the downvotes on this topic. Almost everybody is in grey :)

  • wartywhoa23 · 31 minutes ago

    The color of truth on HN.

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

• frmrtntn · 2 hours ago

  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.

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.

• phoronixrly · 9 hours ago

  Oh don't worry, after claude democratises astronomy the false positives will be cleaned up by the real astronomers. As seen in math and open-source development. This will be the first time I've had anything in common with a mathematician btw -- wading through heaps of claudeism-infested slop all day long.

  • binary132 · 3 hours ago

    They downvoted him because he spoke the truth.

• pizza234 · 9 hours ago

  From the discussion: > even got NASA to point a telescope at it for confirmation

• colijobles · 9 hours ago

  with a proper stats harness the false positive rate can be brought well down to acceptable levels

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...

Laughed at the reddit comment > "We got vibe astronomy before GTA6"

Vibe researching is not real researching. Leave it to the experts at NASA.

• black6 · 4 hours ago

  We're coming back around to an era of the Citizen Scientist.

• supersparrow · 1 hour ago

  Why? We have been allowing technology to progress us for decades. Why stop now?