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Kirwin Hampshire
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Kirwin Hampshire writes Ossuary Lost at Sea, a personal blog at kirwinhampshire.substack.com about writing and culture. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Dark Night of Mathematics”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on AI-generated mathematical proofs and the future role of human mathematicians. One post is cited as an example of a different approach to protecting that role.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts, feelings, unfathomable horrors.
Most-linked posts?
- The Dark Night of Mathematics3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-25
What Hacker News says?
> The story of human discovery and the triumph of the human spirit will soon be excised from this discipline. The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans counterexample was the most egregious demonstration. It revealed that the process of prompting novel proofs will be as auraless as ordering doordash. Watch as magic and mystery evaporate. Watch as the sun sets on our heroic age. Is there not something evil in the act of blocking all f…
Comment linking /p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
on “I know why the mathematicians weep”Submitted The Dark Night of Mathematics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think those concerned about ensuring a place for human mathematicians usually go in different directions than my suggestion, at least those I've seen so far. Like this post that was recently featured on HN: https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mat... My perspective is more like a FOSS philosophy for math. Even if has the same immediate effect as a closed version, it's just better for everyone i…
Comment linking /p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
on “Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science”