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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506 - Sept 2026 (177 comments)

Discussion of Kevin's post in the top subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568667

(I'd much prefer the xenaproject link to be the #1 on HN but it seems fair to give Anthropic their due in this case!)


Comments moved thither. Thanks!

Related ongoing thread:

Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594 - Sept 2026 (120 comments)


Thanks! I've added that link to the toptext.

I'd really like to make it the top link (and relegate https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-... to the toptext) since HN has been tracking the work of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevinbuzzard for a long time and we're big fans. But I guess that would be overkill.


""But I also promised several other things to EPSRC: firstly, that I would be making pull requests to Lean’s mathematics library, adding fundamental objects from modern number theory; this is ongoing. And secondly, and perhaps most importantly, that I would be creating a dynamic document enabling humans to explore the modern proof. My guess is that it is unlikely that Anthropic are going to do this; they will feel that their job is done with the formalization (and they did not formalize the modern proof anyway)."" lol if you say so buddy...

Hey! If you know more than others (which I'm guessing you do), that's great - but in that case can you please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn? If you only post a putdown, it just makes the thread mean and the rest of us don't get to learn anything.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...


Thanks! Macroexpanded:

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621 - Sept 2026 (290 comments)


Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355, which has the original source and is currently on the frontpage.

We've put the Reuters link in the toptext there as well.

(Sorry negura! One of these years I still intend to implement proper karma sharing for cases like this.)


Sure. We have this for countries, like "example.co.uk", so I made "name" be a country and it...just works (maybe).

You only get a first name and a last name and a .name though. You can't be robert.louis.stevenson.name - just louis.stevenson.name.

(Incidentally, this was a Claude suggestion. The change only took a couple minutes but figuring out what mechanism in the code could do this would have taken me a lot longer.)


While we have you here - I've seen this discussion multiple times - does @dang "do" anything to get your attention, or did you just happen to see it because you were scanning the comments manually, and therefore email is better for letting you know something?

We don't monitor @dang. We only monitor emails. Someone emailed me in this case.

thanks!

Can you please transmute your frustration into thoughtful, interesting comments, rather than venting it into putdowns of others?

Since you're posting here, you're as much "the hackernews community" as the rest of us.

The intention of the site is clear: curious, substantive conversation (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). We know better than anyone how easy it is to get derailed from this, but really the best thing to do is to practice thoughtful conversation even when others are not.


you got it, boss!

That is the internet being internet. But adding a putdown on top just gets us further stuck in failure mode.

It would be better to contribute something substantive about Steinem. Obviously there is much to discuss there.


What kind of criticism is this?

Is it now HN policy to micromanage every perspective?


HN "policy" is to encourage curious conversation. Same as it ever was.

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