Prime Gaps at Most 186
simonpure
49 points
10 comments
September 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
ks2048
Context - according to Wikipedia [0], just a few days ago someone posted a proof of a bound of 240 [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31126
dang
Related ongoing thread: GPT-6 Astra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554643 (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555621 from there)
topsrek
see also https://github.com/openai/LongGapsBetweenPrimes
tusimi
who knew the primary utility of pure math would be to juice pre-ipo valuations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
quuxplusone
What is this AI-generated gobbledygook actually trying to say? That there are infinitely many pairs of primes p,q with q=p+186? The first equation under "The result" seems to be saying they found an infinite sequence of primes whose density is forever greater than 1/186, which doesn't match my understanding of how prime density works.
ramon156
blegh, both the code comments and readme reek of verbose claude puke. > The registered Lean build passed without errors or warnings. thanks. i like it when my proofs do not error. Edit: just saw this was published under openai, yikes.
marysminefnuf
??? this is unreadable lol. i feel like i understand the math behind it but the writing is so unintelligible that i dont even care about the results.