Hacker News: wglb

New comment by wglb in "Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]"

wglb — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:25:51 +0000

Super. I have begun to look at meshtastic.

The talk was wonderful.

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New comment by wglb in "Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]"

wglb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:46:54 +0000

I saw him speak at the Dayton Hamvention two times. Absolute fun and like no other.

When I was CSO at Relativity, I conducted security awareness training for all, and gave each one a copy of Cuckoo’s Egg.

Layered rock in India shows potential signs of microbial life as old as to 3.5

wglb — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-layered-india-potential-microbial-life.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369291

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Anthropic's Claude Will Add Watermarks to AI-Generated Text and Files

wglb — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:01:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/anthropics-claude-will-add-watermarks-to-ai-generated-text-and-files/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339832

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Mothra Telescope Captured the Faint Aftermath of a Star's Death

wglb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/science/mothra-telescope-helix-nebula.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280483

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

wglb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218179

Points: 382

# Comments: 82

New comment by wglb in "An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth's size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core"

wglb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:24:02 +0000

Paper in Astrophysical Journal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae7f0b

An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth's size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core

wglb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:22:34 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-ultramassive-white-dwarf-earth-size.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218050

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by wglb in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

wglb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:20:58 +0000

Paper in Mycologia https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00275514.2026.2...

Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

wglb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:20:20 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-qa-mushroom-tiny-people-hallucinations.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218040

Points: 309

# Comments: 281

Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

wglb — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:55:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/americas/amazon-archaeology-geoglyphs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135005

Points: 51

# Comments: 13

Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time

wglb — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/astronomer-detect-exomoon-for-first-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134174

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wglb in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

wglb — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:20:24 +0000

In fact there has: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950: Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)

New comment by wglb in "Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion"

wglb — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

Paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...

Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion

wglb — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:14:16 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-astronomers-strongest-evidence-betelgeuse-companion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097090

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by wglb in "Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away"

wglb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:18 +0000

Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16119

Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away

wglb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gamma-ray-pulsations-reveal-extreme.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078269

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by wglb in "The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4"

wglb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:47:49 +0000

Also https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/99-old-mathemati.... Someone who has been at this problem for 60 years.

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

wglb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077209

Points: 53

# Comments: 18

New comment by wglb in "Tapeworm hijacks worker ants, giving them queen-like metabolism and longer lives"

wglb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:24:14 +0000

Paper published in Biogenetics https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12959-6