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Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-06

The article explores the historical and technical challenges involved in the detection of neutrinos, specifically highlighting the contributions and long journey at Los Alamos.

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A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-21 Cached

A Scientific American article recounts how a 17th-century gambling puzzle, the “problem of points,” led Pascal and Fermat to invent modern probability theory.

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