I think we can do without the baity title since most HN readers should know who Cantor and Dedekind are. Edit: okay, maybe not Dedekind.

If someone wants to suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article itself), we can change it again.

▲ tgv 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm here for the 19th century drama. Imagine the head lines!

    Cantor's Continuity Credentials Cancelled: Clear Cut Copy Cat Case!

Millions of views for Tiktoks about homomorphisms and aleph numbers. Just the news we need right now.

▲ JasonADrury an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> most HN readers should know who Cantor and Dedekind are. Edit: okay, maybe not Dedekind.

This is a top tier troll, good job.

I think "Cantor: The Man Who Stole Infinity?" would strike a good balance.

▲ hearsathought 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I think we can do without the baity title since most HN readers should know who Cantor and Dedekind are. Edit: okay, maybe not Dedekind.

If you think most HN readers would know who Cantor is, let alone his ideas on infinity, then you have no understanding of the community you are modding...

> If someone wants to suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article itself), we can change it again.

May I suggest changing plagiarized to plagiarised to keep in line with the King's english you so favor?

Since you are in the mood for suggestions, can I suggest you stop with the passive aggressive comment rate limits? Thanks.

▲ tchalla 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> since most HN readers should know who Cantor and Dedekind are.

Show up with your hands here if you didn’t know either Cantor or Dedekind.

▲ collabs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This comment made me think of this xkcd 2501

https://xkcd.com/2501

There really is an xkcd for everything

	▲	freehorse 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair, if one does not know who cantor and dedekind were, the drama about the former plagiarising the latter is probably not that interesting anyway.

▲ AndrewKemendo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hard disagree

I’ll go out on a limb and say the majority of HN users at this point do not know the context and implications of the impact of Cantor - would probably have only heard the name in the context of mathematics but no deeper

I’d go further and say the majority have not ever heard of the name Dedekind

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freehorse an hour ago | parent [-]

I would assume that at least cantors technique of diagonalisation should have found its way into some CS course that I assume a good part of the audience here has studied? Considering that’s what Turing used to prove the undecidability of the halting problem.

	▲	AndrewKemendo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Having been active on this website for 14 years now … At this point I would venture to say The median hacker news commentator does not have aa computer science degree

▲ zenethian 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am not a mathematician; I barely knew who Cantor was and had never heard of Dedekind. I would have likely not read the article without the title being so sensational. Your assumption sits upon the tip of your nose.