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shakna • today at 9:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Over the year, nothing they've released with a lean proof attached has turned out false

That's not true. [0]

> On July 25, Ramana Kumar published a repository containing a sorry-free "disproof" of the Collatz conjecture, produced with AI assistance. It is not a valid proof because it exploits a bug in the kernel's handling of nested inductive types.

Even in this dump we're talking about, it hasn't been true. [1]

> In “Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds” a sign error invalidates a stabilization-trace cancellation argument and the construction used by two dependent papers.

[0] https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-24-postmortem-for-t...

[1] https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md


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famouswaffles • today at 11:09 AM

1. That wasn't from Open AI or any major lab. I don't know what random people are getting to. It's curious also that it had no natural language proof attached. Usually these labs have a NL proof then translate to lean. Lot less possibility of lean maxxing.

2. None of the results Open AI retracted had an attached lean proof