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Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by londons_explore on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:59AM (#43734941)
So this conjecture was validated up to 4,000,000,000,000,000,000.

And this project has increased that number to 4,000,010,000,000,000,000.

Increasing the limit by 0.00025%

Not totally sure this is a good use of the compute/brainpower...

Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by JohnKemeny on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:28AM (#43735055)
It's a better use of compute/brainpower than dissing someone's passion.
Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by jay_gridbach on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:38AM (#43735096)
@londons_explore @JohnKemeny Thanks you for your interst to my project! I have to admit the computation speed is slower than I expected. I have a plan to develop GPU version of computation client which could be much faster. Also I am happy to have feedbacks from for updating this project.
Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by BoingBoomTschak on Saturday April 19, 2025 @06:29PM (#43739984)
What if my passion is serial killing? Your brain is running on pure feelgoodium when you post such drivel.
Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by JohnKemeny on Sunday April 20, 2025 @05:55AM (#43742752)
That was mean.
Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by psalaun on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:32AM (#43735072)
I thought the same. The resulting UX is really nice though, and the stack is interesting. If the author does publish other blog posts about the technical side, this project may help other people start their own distributed calculation project on more fruitful issues for the society, and I guess that'd be a win.
Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by jay_gridbach on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:43AM (#43735110)
Thank you for the kind comment! I'll put out a blog post about my tech stack sometime.
Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by zamadatix on Saturday April 19, 2025 @01:42PM (#43738009)
Not that it changes much... but 7*10^13 instead of 10^13.

I don't know about making a judgement call on what a good use of computer or brainpower is, it seems like a fun enough project in many ways, but in terms of claims worth headlining about the project I agree wholeheartedly.