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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by Jtariiiii on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:53AM (#49933548)
>How can you say it’s conclusively been done if it might have been stolen from a math researcher and was aided in unknown ways by a whole team of math researchers?

The solution to NS was categorically not stolen, nobody is alleging that OpenAI stole a complete solution to NS. The alleged theft was about a different set of related equations.

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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by someonebaggy on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:11AM (#49944987)
If I want to solve an open problem, stealing a solution to half of it surely makes it much easier. Can I claim i did it myself? Well... Maybe.
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