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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2026 Septembervatsachak

About how AI solving math problems changes how mathematicians value their work.

Math academia 2025

Sorry, only epic problem solvers allowed here

Math academia 2026

We were more than just problem solvers

I think people are overblowing this though. Wake me up when GPT-whatever writes gcc from scratch, then by the Curry-Howard I'd be impressed

An AI writes a compiler like gcc from scratch.

Has this happened?

Yes 42 (33%)Not sure 42 (33%)No 43 (34%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.