Hacker News: wglb

JWST and ALMA reveal a dusty, rapidly growing black hole in the early universe

wglb — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-jwst-alma-reveal-dusty-rapidly.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253108

Points: 2

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Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight

wglb — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-southern-africa-stenciled-art-plain.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253100

Points: 2

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New comment by wglb in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

wglb — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:44:10 +0000

Interesting. Did they explain why?

New comment by wglb in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

wglb — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:42:31 +0000

I started in 1966 with Fortran II on CDC 3500. Later I spent quality time on the IBM 1800 which has the same instruction set as the 1620.

Francis Halzen: Nobel Prize in physics for work on ghost particles: neutrinos

wglb — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-francis-halzen-nobel-prize-physics.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006792

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wglb in "A gamma-ray burst's engine stayed active for nearly a month, more than record"

wglb — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:08:00 +0000

Paper in arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22426

A gamma-ray burst's engine stayed active for nearly a month, more than record

wglb — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-gamma-ray-stayed-month-previous.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006738

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

First probe monitors fetal health in utero during surgery

wglb — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/01/first-of-its-kind-probe-monitors-fetal-health-in-utero-during-surgery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959483

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wglb in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

wglb — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:19:36 +0000

You should post it on hn

New comment by wglb in "OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector"

wglb — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:09:40 +0000

One key factor is the extent to which OpenAI is not paying attention. Additionally their Blackhat presentation was very self serving. The way to protect against rouge AI is to buy more AI?

Also giving METR limited time and visibility clearly limited the discovery of what was really going on.

OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

wglb — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858360

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by wglb in "What even is an OS now?"

wglb — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:24:47 +0000

I find it is an amplifier of my skills, not a replacement.

New comment by wglb in "Scientists build most accurate atomic clock"

wglb — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:01:09 +0000

Article in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11072-8

Scientists build most accurate atomic clock

wglb — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:00:01 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-scientists-world-accurate-atomic-clock.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824846

Points: 64

# Comments: 26

NASA's Moon Orbiter Spots New, 'Once-in-Century' Moon Crater

wglb — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:21:52 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbiter-spots-new-once-in-century-moon-crater/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762998

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Math challenges a 2k-year-old story about Parthenon's optical illusions

wglb — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:02:01 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-mathematician-year-legend-parthenon-optical.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735175

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

wglb — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:00:14 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735159

Points: 243

# Comments: 192

New comment by wglb in "Early Earth's Aurora may have made a ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry"

wglb — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:44:44 +0000

Article in Biolink https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S03032647260024...

Early Earth's Aurora may have made a ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry

wglb — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-early-earth-auroral-belts-natural.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679797

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by wglb in "JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars"

wglb — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:40:10 +0000

Paper in Arziv https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18212v1