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Developer launches 'Hacker Times,' a NYT-styled interface for Hacker News

A new Show HN project called Hacker Times reskins Hacker News content in a New York Times-style layout. Among the stories surfaced is a guest essay on Terence Tao's blog by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai and Jie Xue, arguing mathematicians should value understanding over competition with peers or AI systems.

hackertimes.ca · 2026-11-03

Amit Sahai: AI is already generating original mathematical ideas

In a guest blog post, mathematician Amit Sahai says AI systems he has worked with are producing genuinely new mathematical ideas, not just fast calculations or restating known arguments. He argues this will make many researchers feel unable to keep pace, echoing struggles once faced by undergraduates who abandoned math research because top peers grasped concepts faster than they could.

terrytao.wordpress.com · 2026-09-26