Why “NS” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I don’t know much about NS problem or Euler problem anyway. Can’t tell how significant it is to go from Tristan approach to OpenAI’s results. It is 10k agents after all with a m…
by karmasimida · Sep 9, 2026
No, sorry I was reading it correctly but they addressed the issue in the post itself. They make it clear they were aiming at all 7 problems looking for the "two" that were rumor…
by piker · Sep 9, 2026
I understood the rumors (as described by OpenAI) to be that “one of” the prizes was solvable. If they heard NS specifically was solvable and aren’t saying that, they’re intentio…
by piker · Sep 9, 2026
Funny how they did not solve any of the other problems, just the one where there was already solutions to the NS with some restrictions in their chats, and their solution seems…
by PowerElectronix · Sep 9, 2026
I’m not a mathematician so take this with a grain of salt. Apparently terry tao commented that the approach used for the Euler paper can “probably” be used for solving NS but it…
by jansport123 · Sep 9, 2026
OAI's side of the story is that they discovered the approaches (and indeed solved problems - Euler equations vs NS equations) differed. They then offered Buckmaster lead authors…
by sobellian · Sep 9, 2026
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