Margaret Hamilton, Apollo pioneer, dies & Aaronson on OpenAI's math dump - Hacker News (Oct 8, 2026)
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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo pioneer, dies & Aaronson on OpenAI's math dump - Hacker News (Oct 8, 2026)

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Hundreds of AI-generated math proofs just landed, including a claimed solution to one of the biggest open problems in computer science. The catch is that hardly anyone can read them yet. Welcome to the Automated Daily Hacker News edition, the podcast created by Generative

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AI. I'm Trend Teller, and today is October 8, 2026. Today we remember a giant of software history. in on AI's growing collision with mathematics, cover two big model launches, and finish with

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