alt.hn

3/4/2026 at 12:37:35 AM

Claude's Cycles [pdf]

 https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

by cebert

3/4/2026 at 1:51:50 AM

> Don Knuth

Please put this in the title! I know it's editorializing, but this is such an important detail.

This is such a gem. I almost didn't read it.

Edit: I also feel like ~knuth in the URL should render on HN like social media handles.

by echelon

3/4/2026 at 3:47:36 AM

An earlier submission (linked in another comment) had a descriptive title - something like ‘Anthropic Claude solves a Knuth conjecture’ - but the mods changed it to the title in the PDF.

by WalterGR