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Genome Duplication Is an Evolutionary Gamble

https://www.quantamagazine.org/genome-duplication-is-a-radical-evolutionary-gamble-20260902/
2•randomImmigrant•5m ago•0 comments

How Fresh Are Your Blueberries? And What Would You Do If You Knew?

https://oliverevans.dev/blog/blueberries-voi/
1•oliverevans96•16m ago•0 comments

Ok, but Does It Scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale
1•sbysb•20m ago•0 comments

SEO vs. AEO vs. Geo vs. AIO

https://canonry.ai/blog/seo-vs-aeo-vs-geo-vs-aio
1•arberx•24m ago•0 comments

Why Air Batteries Are Finally Beating Lithium [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoiECSXOvQE
2•thelastgallon•25m ago•0 comments

MauroPello/stop-the-slop: Spot AI-generated YouTube scripts

https://github.com/MauroPello/stop-the-slop
2•rdmuser•26m ago•0 comments

Exploiting food embeddings for ingredient substitution

https://github.com/ChantalMP/Exploiting-Food-Embeddings-for-Ingredient-Substitution
1•rickcarlino•28m ago•0 comments

Chinese Espionage Threat: Suspected Spy Drone Caught over Sensitive U.S. Missile

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2592346/chinese-espionage-threat-suspected-spy-drone...
3•pir8life4me•28m ago•1 comments

Mouse tops FrontierHarness at 24/30 with Kimi K3 using completion loops

https://mouse.dev/blog/mouse-on-frontierharness/
2•Aeroi•31m ago•1 comments

Catalan's Constant Is Irrational

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04176
3•bananaflag•39m ago•1 comments

High Oil Prices Speed Up China's Shift Away from Crude

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/High-Oil-Prices-Speed-Up-Chinas-Shift-Away-Fro...
2•thelastgallon•40m ago•0 comments

Switcher

https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html
4•tambourine_man•42m ago•0 comments

Hugging Face open-sources Funes, a local-first memory layer for coding agents

https://huggingface.co/blog/funes
6•fourfire•47m ago•1 comments

After OpenAI's Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html
3•jaredwiener•48m ago•0 comments

Confronting Risks of Mirror Life

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158
3•mhb•50m ago•0 comments

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/
17•kaonashi-tyc-01•51m ago•1 comments

Inside Gabe Newell’s 111m superyacht Leviathan

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/reports/gabe-newell-111m-superyacht-leviathan-oceanco
4•papa-whisky•52m ago•0 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/
3•KinetiNode•52m ago•0 comments

Making LEDs from an Epiwafer

https://www.semiconductor.diy/guides/making-leds/
3•quantumwannabe•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: JarPeek – Online JAR viewer, decompile classes locally (no upload)

https://jarpeek.com/
2•xooch_95•1h ago•0 comments

Rust 1.98.1

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/03/Rust-1.98.1/
3•theemathas•1h ago•0 comments

The 1990s Web vs. today's AI

https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/the-1990s-web-vs-todays-ai
4•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?

5•bariumbitmap•1h ago•2 comments

Is controllability becoming the real bottleneck for computer-use agents?

https://twitter.com/markchen90/status/2095597534412673109
2•oliviayii•1h ago•0 comments

Agentic Search

https://mistral.ai/news/agentic-search/
7•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

An 'Exercise Pill' Just Cleared Its First Human Test

https://gizmodo.com/an-exercise-pill-just-cleared-its-first-human-test-2000800380
6•tempestn•1h ago•1 comments

Tesla opens search for Cybercab fleet sales, but FSD owners are still left out

https://electrek.co/2026/09/03/tesla-opens-search-for-cybercab-fleet-sales-but-fsd-owners-are-sti...
3•jijojv•1h ago•0 comments

Nvidia Acquiring HuggingFace

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
4•zezaggering•1h ago•1 comments

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet

https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io
5•alphabetatango•1h ago•0 comments

How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI?

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/
5•alphabetatango•1h ago•0 comments
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Catalan's Constant Is Irrational

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04176
3•bananaflag•39m ago

Comments

ninjahawk1•17m ago
The paper was essentially made by using loop engineering with AI. Which in of itself would be fine, if checked by a human. It seems the paper admits that it was not. Saying that the math was done with an AI, and that its verification was then done with another AI.

It seems like there’s a concrete error early on. The tail recurrence 1.4 is T_i + T_{i+1} = 1/(2i+1)² but in 2.12 it uses the factor (2X+3)². With the actual recurrence, K(i) does not vanish. So the zero count that forces deg K 4B+1 fails. At the extra zero at -3/2(2.16), which would win by exactly one no longer works.

The structure does not match how these results are proven. The paper mimics Calegari–Dimitrov–Tang’s 2024 proof for L(2,χ₋₃), but that proof was a deliberate capacity bound. Here the arithmetic content is replaced by a combinatorial minimization over index sets plus numerics no human has checked.

There’s also some minor sloppiness in where K=9 instead of K=0 in the definition of K and “nineteen century” typos which suggests not only was the math not proofread, but the grammar wasn’t either.

My guess is that an expert will probably find a specific gap quickly but it would be cool if I’m proven wrong.