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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/

40•baruchel•46m ago

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railgunmerlin•28m ago

notably on terry tao's (who has signed) blog but not from tao (guest post from timothy gowers)

js8•22m ago

I wish Terry Tao would prepend the guest names on his blogposts, this is not the first time it's confusing.

Waterluvian•21m ago

Isn’t it the very first thing just after the title?

embedding-shape•21m ago

To be fair, the post does start with "This is a guest post by Timothy Gowers", feels pretty clear already. But of course, assumes reading beyond the title.

fhdkweig•27m ago

More discussion (95 comments) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738091

dang•16m ago

(most) comments moved thither. Thanks!

kingstnap•19m ago

Just note that Terry Tao is on the letter. This is a guest post.

https://mathandai.org/

The Life Sciences Verification Program

https://www.anthropic.com/news/life-sciences-verification-program

1•surprisetalk•18s ago•0 comments

I got tired of taking screenshots and explaining everything to AI agents

https://deiko.app/

1•maddy30445r•25s ago•1 comments

Insurance Agent Benchmark: 166 real-world cases for evaluating insurance AI

https://www.askcooper.ai/labs/insurance-agent-benchmark

2•jsc39•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Windows-style Excel ribbon shortcuts and formatting macros for Mac

https://lightningxl.com/

1•tjds•1m ago•0 comments

OpenWispr, a free, open-source push-to-talk AI dictation app for Android

https://github.com/EdiBianco/OpenWhispr

1•edib•3m ago•0 comments

Python Packaging Council Election Results

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/09/announcing-2026-python-packaging.html

1•lumpa•6m ago•0 comments

Recovering a key and text of a 1542 cipher

https://simonklee.dk/farnese-letter

1•grigolin•6m ago•0 comments

PSF Board Election Results

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/09/announcing-2026-psf-board-election.html

2•lumpa•6m ago•0 comments

Benchmark Jev vs. Gemini Flash and Claude Fable on Code Review

https://github.com/gemanor/jev-code-review-benchmark/tree/main

2•gemanor•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jev.directory – A community directory for Jev primitives

https://jev.directory

1•blaso•9m ago•0 comments

Workout by Muscle – Claude Solution

https://claude.ai/artifact/P3buaPRmXboPMMbfw1b6WY

1•critique•9m ago•0 comments

Empirical Fractal

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/17/empirical-fractal/

2•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

A service marketplace for agents like agent-to-agent Fiverr

https://earnanhonestdollar.com/

3•slimjimmy•11m ago•0 comments

Nvidia and Palantir fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model which beats bigger models

https://thenewstack.io/ai-factories-are-among-the-most-complex-systems-ever-built-nvidia-and-pala...

1•dzonga•11m ago•0 comments

Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17523

2•Betelbuddy•11m ago•0 comments

Camper bitten by bear in Colorado recalls moment it "came crashing" into tent

https://coloradosun.com/2026/09/17/camper-colorado-bear-attack-bitten/

1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Projects in Claude Code

https://claude.com/blog/projects-redesigned

1•vertigoruntime•12m ago•0 comments

What Medicaid cuts mean for those who rely on home healthcare

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/09/17/medicaid-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill-aging-populatio...

1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

W3C launches first pilot of program to support Open Source projects

https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/w3c-launches-first-pilot-of-program-to-support-open-source-projects/

2•jruohonen•14m ago•0 comments

Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696

2•PaulDavisThe1st•14m ago•0 comments

Come watch the AI Agents do the work

https://world.swamp-club.com/

1•nickstinemates•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: What if you could review code without reading code?

https://github.com/coldteadotai/pr-lens

3•ohans•15m ago•0 comments

Hack: Coding at No Cost in Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, VSCode

https://github.com/mindsdb/setfree

1•torrmal•15m ago•0 comments

Bringing Correctly Rounded Math to Production with LLVM-Libc

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/bringing-correctly-rounded-math-to-production-with-llvm-libc/

1•ibobev•15m ago•0 comments

I built a multi platform torrent video streamer

https://github.com/zond/xtremio

2•zond•16m ago•1 comments

An ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler

https://github.com/CanadaHonk/porffor

2•return_to_monke•17m ago•0 comments

Labeled matches: why is this not in every regex engine?

https://iev.ee/blog/categorize-everything-all-at-once/

3•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov – This Is Ageless

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

2•arttaboi•17m ago•1 comments

SK Hynix to Interview All 250 Executives, First Time in 14 Years

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/17/sk-hynix-reviews-all-250-executives-for-first-time-in-14

2•giuliomagnifico•18m ago•0 comments

Cursor is currently experiencing a major outage

https://status.cursor.com

3•caioariede•18m ago•0 comments