[piemonkey]

Can someone with more knowledge than me contextualize this result? It appears to be making progress on the Riemann hypothesis, but why is this particular effort getting attention on HN?

[feniv]

For context, the author is the notable fields medal winner Terence Tao - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao - and finding the lower bounds for this constant has been a long running endeavor in pure mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn%E2%80%93Newman_const...

[cpfohl]

Most useful comment here.

[lisper]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188347