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rockmeamedeetoday at 9:18 AM0 repliesview on HN

It's very very important to note that there was an existing 2025 arxiv preprint that had a >66% proof assuming some weak condition, and this result removes that weak condition.

It didn't do this whole 41.6->67.2% jump by itself, humans had done most of the work and it came in at the end and found a way to remove the condition. Impressive, but not as massively impressive as when it sounds like it did the jump by itself.

This isn't goalpost moving, it's clarifying what exactly happened bc at first I thought it had made the jump by itself. The blog post is written in a technically correct, but misleading way where it takes credit for the whole jump.