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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>"Winter is coming" · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>"Winter is coming" — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19188071</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1304.0445:19188071</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:36:30 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Winter Is Coming [pdf]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>physics.pop-ph</category></item><item><title>"Winter is coming" — mentioned by astrosi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12355898</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1304.0445:12355898</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:01:14 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;There is an alternative explanation for their off seasons proposed in this April fools arxiv paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0445&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>physics.pop-ph</category></item><item><title>"Winter is coming" — mentioned by wfn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541019</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1304.0445:7541019</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:20:48 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Obligatory link to a paper on arXiv analyzing the astrophysics of long and volatile winter seasons in Westeros (basically, can you have a system where you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to analytically solve/predict winters, etc.): http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0445 (&amp;quot;Winter is coming&amp;quot;) Excerpt from the abstract: To right that appalling wrong, here we attempt to explain the apparently erratic seasonal changes in the world of G.R.R.M. A natural explanation for such phenomena is the unique behavior of a circumbinary planet. Thus, by speculating that the planet under scrutiny is orbiting a pair of stars, we…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>physics.pop-ph</category></item><item><title>"Winter is coming" — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644301</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1304.0445:5644301</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:28:18 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Winter is Coming&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>physics.pop-ph</category></item><item><title>"Winter is coming" — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5501880</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1304.0445:5501880</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:18:02 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Winter is coming&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.0445/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>physics.pop-ph</category></item></channel></rss>
