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Ben Brubaker

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Ben Brubaker's personal blog at benbrubaker.com covers science and math. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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I’m a science journalist with a background in experimental physics. In October 2022, I joined Quanta Magazine as a staff writer covering theoretical computer…

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  1. Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22

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  1. Submitted Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra as a story · 238 points

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  2. Submitted Of Lifetimes and Linewidths as a story · 19 points

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  3. Submitted Frequency shifts do not imply quantum entanglement (2022) as a story · 10 points

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  4. Submitted Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Frequency Shifts Do Not Imply Quantum Entanglement as a story · 2 points

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