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New comment by lorenzohess in "A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'"

lorenzohess — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:45:46 +0000

> After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball, which is made entirely of force-carrying particles. > ... The discovery of glueballs would provide direct evidence that gluons can interact with themselves, researchers say. This is a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics

New comment by lorenzohess in "Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products"

lorenzohess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:56:53 +0000

I can't really imagine that an LLM wrapper will be able to optimize designs well enough for this company to have many customers.

Claude has helped me with brainstorming, but I do all the CAD and optimization.

Would be cool if, in 10 years, the prompt to prototype pipeline was as simple, quick, and effective as this landing page alludes to.

New comment by lorenzohess in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

lorenzohess — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:00:18 +0000

> Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported.

This should make it easier to catch cheaters who use Claude, right? Unless everyone runs their artifacts through some watermark and metadata sanitizer?

New comment by lorenzohess in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

lorenzohess — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:01:41 +0000

> An unreleased research version of Claude has improved on a longstanding lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the Riemann hypothesis. Drawing on extensive prior research by mathematicians over the past decades, it has increased this bound from 41.6% to 67.2%.

Distrofighter: The Linux distro and desktop brawler

lorenzohess — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:26:32 +0000

Article URL: https://distrofighter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774761

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lorenzohess in "Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX"

lorenzohess — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:12:45 +0000

I still find Inkscape and svg + pdf_tex to be the easiest pattern.

Looks great for Tikz native though.

New comment by lorenzohess in ">400 AUR Packages Compromised with NPM post-install malware"

lorenzohess — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:13:22 +0000

AUR thread: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists....

Malware analysis: https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/

>400 AUR Packages Compromised with NPM post-install malware

lorenzohess — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:08:40 +0000

Article URL: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509444

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by lorenzohess in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

lorenzohess — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:53:53 +0000

If I recall correctly, at an undistorted scale, the water would be so shallow that surface tension and viscosity would dominate, so the depths are exaggerated to keep the flow realistic.

More specifically, tidal flow obeys Froude similarity, not Reynolds. Matching the model's Froude number to the real Bay's requires enough depth for gravity waves and tides to scale correctly, which the vertical exaggeration provides.

But the distortion makes the flow too efficient, so copper strips are added throughout to achieve the right frictional resistance.

New comment by lorenzohess in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

lorenzohess — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:47:53 +0000

Video: https://xcancel.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548...

Another angle: https://xcancel.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2060174287563116696...

New comment by lorenzohess in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

lorenzohess — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:47:04 +0000

https://xcancel.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548...

New comment by lorenzohess in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

lorenzohess — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:45:53 +0000

https://xcancel.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2060174287563116696...

U.S. neutrino megaproject takes shape in abandoned gold mine

lorenzohess — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:53:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-neutrino-megaproject-takes-shape-in-abandoned-gold-mine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268969

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

WaylandCraft – Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

lorenzohess — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:54:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/EVV1E/waylandcraft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232121

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lorenzohess in "Map of Metal"

lorenzohess — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:47:46 +0000

And here I was thinking it would be a materials science map

Manhattan Distance or Taxicab Geometry

lorenzohess — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:48:31 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203235

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lorenzohess in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

lorenzohess — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:43:06 +0000

Why did one developer have access, even if read-only, to more than 3,800 internal repos?

New comment by lorenzohess in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

lorenzohess — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:29:41 +0000

I don't see TempleOS here unfortunately https://gitlab.com/virtualosmuseum/virtualosmuseum/-/blob/ma...

New comment by lorenzohess in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

lorenzohess — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:52:28 +0000

The stress tests they'll perform are really interesting:

1) Starship will deploy "two modified satellites... [to] transmit imagery [of the heat shield] down to operators... Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test."

2) Relighting a Raptor engine

3) "For Starship entry, a single heat shield tile has been intentionally removed to measure the aerodynamic load differences on adjacent tiles when there is a tile missing"

4) Banking maneuver and rear flap structural test

New comment by lorenzohess in "Self-Complementary Graphs"

lorenzohess — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:58:10 +0000

> A self-complementary graph is a graph which is isomorphic to its graph complement.

i.e., if you add edges between nodes which aren't connected, and remove edges which are already there, you get back the graph you started with.