https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1708.01294/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267696urn:hackerpapers:mention:1708.01294:49267696Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:16 GMT<p>Every time I see a story like this I wonder what happened to the small neutrino detectors enabled by coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering [1] [2]. I&#x27;m guessing that these detectors aren&#x27;t useful for a lot of the types of neutrinos that are interesting or something? If small, cheap, detectors like this were plentiful it would open all sorts of observations into the sun and the earth&#x27;s core, exactly like this article is discussing. There must be something holding that back. [1] https://www.science.org/content/article/milk-jug-sized-detec... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01294</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1708.01294/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>nucl-exhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17991331urn:hackerpapers:mention:1708.01294:17991331Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:56:41 GMT<p>Neŭtrino detectors are coming along nicely! For example, see this paper on the compact COHERENT detector, which is theoretically portable! https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.01294 It can only detect neutrinos &lt;50 MeV but still, wow. Production, modulation and beam forming (and then demodulation and background removal) is a significant challenge, but neutrinos have many advantages for signaling for a galactic civilization, such as not needing to worry about occlusion.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1708.01294/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>nucl-ex