Measured public attention
Can AI discover something new?
13 measured threads · about 10,000 points · measured 11 October 2026
What happened
Mathematics became the public test case in 2026.
The supplied measurement groups 13 threads with about 10,000 points and 8,893 comments. These totals measure attention, not whether the linked claims are true.
The timeline brings together 19 source-linked contributions assigned to this question. It preserves their dates, discussion records and original sources.
Complete assigned timeline
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
Continue the evidence trail
Method
Attention is measured, not guessed: every Hacker News story from 1 Jan 2026 with more than 300 points and an AI subject (631 stories), read through the public search interface on 11 Oct 2026, grouped by the question behind the story. Survey figures come from published polls with four-digit samples and are linked.