HN debate: OpenAI's FFT algorithm is less a breakthrough than a malicious exploit
mochomocha · hn · 2026-10-13
- HN user mochomocha shared an argmin.net blog post offering a pointed critique of OpenAI's newly discovered faster Fourier transform algorithm.
- The author's argument: the algorithm is less a scientific breakthrough than a "malicious exploit" of the problem's structure.
- The post sparked discussion on how to value this kind of discovery; full analysis in the argmin.net piece "Faster Fourier Transforms".
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