Prime Gaps at Most 186: OpenAI GitHub Math Repo Hits Hacker News Front Page
simonpure · hn · 2026-09-04
A Hacker News post points to PrimeGaps186, an open-source repo on OpenAI's GitHub, covering a result on bounding prime gaps at 186. Prime gaps are a classic problem in analytic number theory (the maximum distance between consecutive primes), and the fact that OpenAI published this on its official GitHub has sparked community discussion about AI-driven mathematical discovery. Details live in the repo and the HN thread.
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