https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2607.27794/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248954urn:hackerpapers:submission:2607.27794:49248954Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:04:07 GMT<p>Can AI Follow in Einstein&#x27;s Footsteps?</p><p></p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2607.27794/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-phhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248234urn:hackerpapers:mention:2607.27794:49248234Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:08:17 GMT<p>&gt; Jarred prompted Claude to try again, and it spent a day and a half coordinating about 60 Claude subagents, which this time went much deeper: between them, they ran 2,400 shell commands and wrote hundreds of Python scripts.1 If there is anything to learn from the history of science, it is that breakthroughs happen via better or new theory and not by brute-force compute [1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.27794</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2607.27794/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph