I pointed AI at 400 years of archives — it found forgotten meteorites
piratebroadcast · hn · 2026-10-09
In a blog post discussed on Hacker News, Jesse Waites describes pointing AI at roughly 400 years of historical scientific archives and unearthing forgotten meteorite records among other findings.
It's a hands-on AI-for-science / digital humanities exercise: using LLMs to bulk-read old literature and extract scientific observations missed by modern databases.
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