"you could have..." is among the top insulting phrases used by maths-adjacent people. Others in that league are "it should now be obvious...", "it's abundantly clear...", "it can be easily shown that...", "this is nothing but..." etc.

The rest of us reading this are like, holy batman, what the fuck was that?!

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egeozcan 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Answer with:

You could have your own hacker news, it's just a textbox, a bunch of tables and headings! Once you add these, it'll be abundantly clear that you also need a database. It should now be obvious that you also need a user system and it can be easily shown that needs a backend. Admin tools, tests, statistics, performance checks and so on can easily be derived from such backend.

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ozgung 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also the proof is so trivial that it’s left to the reader.

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BurnerOptical 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This one hurts the most, esp. in fields you're not familiar.

	▲	hnfong 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, at least these days an actually trivial (to a domain expert) proof can be delegated to a frontier model...

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cubefox 7 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

In the future this might be replaced with "you can verify this fact by asking an LLM of your choice". Similar to how people in chat arguments already post screenshots of an LLM answer as evidence that their opinion is correct.

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jameshart 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Math educators like Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) use it in a very specific way: the goal of a mathematical explanation is to make the learner feel like they could have come up with something. And a really good mathematical communicator can absolutely do that.

A piece like this which uses it in a headline but in no way makes an average reader feel like they could have come up with it is just badly misjudging how good of an explanation it is.

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Razengan 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Right next to "Learn More" by software UI designers.