In a way the most remarkable thing about this is that it isn't even at the top of the HN homepage. Even if this is a step up from what we've seen before, we're no longer astonished by the idea that AI can make significant advances in mathematics and computer science.

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antirez 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

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lkey 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Forums change with the times, and this one never existed solely to burnish your ego.

Moreover, mister elite, you don't know why this press release was flagged.

I'm not sure why we should privilege your bitter speculation over more mundane possibilities.

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fg137 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Didn't know I was part of an elite.

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pistoriusp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interesting. I had no idea that a person could see what is flagged?

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defrost 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you page through the /newest listings you can see [flagged] and [flagged][dead] submissions.

eg. this: [flagged] A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131860

is clearly marked as flagged.

Unlike the current submission: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com) which isn't [flagged].

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

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robinhouston 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's true, but submissions are only killed in that way if they receive a ‘fatal’ number of flags. However, flags lower the rank of a story even at non-fatal levels. What antirez is suggesting here is that the rank of this story has been lowered by flags – and that seems plausible, if you compare its rank to that of other stories with a similar age and number of points.

	▲	defrost 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[flagged] submissions aren't [dead] (killed), they are still active and can be upvoted and commented upon. > if you compare its rank to that of other stories with a similar age and number of points. Ranking is complicated enough here even before weighting, speed of initial upvotes can play against ranking, number of comments and the shape of the comment tree also affect ranking. And yes, various subjects and submission sources do get weightings that impact ranking. What's funny, to myself at least, is that any attention at all is paid to "HN front page ranking" - I've been on again off again active here since 2008 .. and can't recall ever really looking at a default HN "front page" ever. ( There's /newest /newcomments /active etc to browse and sites such as https://hckrnews.com/ )

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revetkn 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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saithound 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think that's it. Multiple or my friends from the target audience (academic mathematicians) admitted to scrolling past because the title made it sound like a review of last month's contributions, instead of 10 new ones.

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gizmodo59 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s also very very divided (x companies, oss vs not and other interests)

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curt15 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?

	▲	yewenjie 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but they wouldn't publish that bit lest other companies steal the ideas.

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schleck8 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is one of the most impactful mathematical publications in history by all accounts

I think we've now hit a point where 99.9% of the population gloss over these types of AI advancements because of human competence being insufficient

No human could have published this because it requires paradigm shifts (e. g. Section 5) in multiple mathematical domains. Mastering one of them to this degree is rare, mastering 3+ pretty much non existent for humans.