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bayindirhyesterday at 10:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Didn't some of the recent proofs exploited a couple of blind spots of lean, and they were invalidated?

Edit: Yup. A bug report to Lean was disguised as a "Collatz" proof in a humorous way. Links below.

- https://x.com/gro_tsen/status/2082483878480977959

- https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117002106099986943


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Ethan_Barryyesterday at 10:34 PM

There was a hash collision bug in the main Lean kernel that was patched, but AFAIK nothing relied on it. You'd have to know what you were doing to accidentally get there...

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ameliusyesterday at 10:30 PM

I don't know ... do you have a reference?

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