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Show HN: I found a new planetary candidate in Kepler Data with AI

https://kuber.studio/planethunt/
1•kuberwastaken•57m ago
Hey HN! I was playing around with the Kepler and TESS data last weekend when I hacked around a way to pixel-peep stars dimming periodically to potentially find new exoplanets with Codex.

I ended up running the engine to find an interesting signal in Kepler data that was uncatalogued with a dip repeating every 13.77 days around KIC 5689121, a red dwarf in Lyra about 970 light-years away. If it's a planet, it'd be roughly 2.5–3 times Earth's radius !

Funnily enough, this candidate is just 7.1 arcseconds from a much brighter neighbour (KIC 5689116) and is very hard to see because of how much brighter it is (probably why it went unnoticed for so long)

Of course, there's work to do before calling it confirmed - my TRICERATOPS analysis is about 6.9% and we have to get IR/AO / Keck observations to prove it's out there ! (which I'm honestly intimidated by but cautiously optimistic about because I've never worked in non-CS adjacent research) but I found the activity of making cool tools to potentially discover things about our universe quite fun !

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's worked with Kepler data or exoplanet validation :)

https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2109240782368751834

Heat Pumps Are Coming for Coal's Industrial Heat Market

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Heat-Pumps-Are-Coming-for-Coals-Industrial-Heat-Market...
1•thelastgallon•36s ago•0 comments

Anthropic offers £145k for London personal assistant amid AI agent boom

https://www.cityam.com/anthropic-offers-145k-for-london-personal-assistant-amid-ai-agent-boom/
1•mirzap•43s ago•0 comments

TanStack Start 1.0 is Stable

https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-start-1-0
1•ilreb•43s ago•0 comments

FluxTools PDF: Merge, compress, and split 300MB+ PDFs offline on iPhone and iPad

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fluxtools-pdf-scan-merge-zip/id6763626539
1•jimmy_lee•1m ago•0 comments

Ditty: A Ditto Clipboard Twin for Mac

https://github.com/20101997/Ditty
1•ahmedchemkhy•1m ago•0 comments

Launch: Assury Cross platform agent lifecycle mangement

1•girvin•1m ago•0 comments

Automatically Nudge stuck long-running agents

https://github.com/franciscocarloserra/claude-code-autonudge
1•FranciscoCarlos•1m ago•0 comments

Recreating Ada Lovelace's Notes

https://buddybindery.substack.com/p/recreating-ada-lovelaces-notes
1•alexobenauer•1m ago•0 comments

What I saw around the Curve

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/what-i-saw-around-the-curve-2026
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Agentic RAG: Taxonomy, Architectures, Evaluation and Research Directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07379
1•teleforce•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nbview – Jupyter notebook viewer that runs in the browser

https://nbview.org/
1•chizkidd•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trending topics on Hacker News since 2020, classified with Jev

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/hn-trends/
1•hubraumhugo•4m ago•0 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-...
3•ivell•4m ago•1 comments

Optimizing Our E2E Pipeline

https://slack.engineering/speedup-e2e-testing/
1•birdculture•5m ago•0 comments

Garnet: KV store for agent, best paper VLDB 2026

https://vldb.org/2026/conference-awards.html
1•hubertzhang•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Recall – long-term memory for AI agents that notices when facts change

https://github.com/recallmem/recall
1•Recallmem•8m ago•0 comments

A Book That Will Never Be Read

https://forbetterscience.com/2026/09/22/a-book-that-will-never-be-read/
2•jruohonen•9m ago•0 comments

A-to-Z Across Toronto: Before the Walk

https://jacobfilipp.com/atoz0/
1•surprisetalk•10m ago•0 comments

Drought, Pollution, & Poverty: The Race for Lithium Is Becoming a Race for Water

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102026/lithium-race-becomes-race-for-water-in-arid-west/
1•paimapi•11m ago•0 comments

Character.ai files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20M

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/characterai-files-bankruptcy-agrees-sell-some-assets-dis...
2•simonebrunozzi•12m ago•0 comments

Stroke is becoming more common among younger adults

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/health/stroke-young-adult-risk-study-wellness
3•ucha•14m ago•1 comments

Google is using AI to help scientists understand diseases

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/health/ai-health-research/
2•gmays•14m ago•0 comments

Normal Bad Work

https://sophie.huiberts.me/blog/2026/community/
2•aarestad•15m ago•0 comments

Linux Kernel Developers Plan to Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement for AI/LLM

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
3•majorchord•15m ago•1 comments

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
1•kkukshtel•16m ago•0 comments

'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

https://www.polygon.com/order-of-the-sinking-star-impressions/
2•cvoss•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kindlefall – a full-fledged 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.js

https://kindlefall.com/play/
1•djbiccboii•16m ago•1 comments

AI engines search and cite: 960 answers measured

https://tryprefer.com/data/ai-answer-study/
1•gslin•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What tools do you use to create 3D print models using AI

1•gulmothrowaway•17m ago•0 comments

Palantir CTO AI says researchers started smoking, believing AI will cure cancer

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-says-researchers-have-s...
1•theanonymousone•18m ago•1 comments