https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2609.20797/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927320urn:hackerpapers:mention:2609.20797:49927320Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:32:11 GMT<p>&gt; It doesn&#x27;t seem humanly possible to produce &gt;2 &quot;high SNR&quot; papers per month. The situation right now is pretty crazy, for example this established TCS professor [1] has at least 4 arXiv submissions co-authored by him in September [2]. This includes the recent breakthrough on the matroid secretary problem, which has a pretty interesting AI story of its own, if you haven&#x27;t seen it yet [3]. Of course prolific professors can work around this by working with younger researchers who upload the work, but this just makes the rate limit a solo author bottleneck, which feels a bit weird. [1]…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2609.20797/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DS