Jake Boggan 谈 Barnette 猜想被解决：24 年投入后的复杂情绪
Quoting Jake Boggan
Jake Boggan 在 Hacker News 评论 openai/math 相关讨论时表示，自己曾长期研究 Barnette 猜想，前后投入 24 年、数千小时，去年夏天还一度以为解决了它。如今该猜想据称已在问题 180 处被证明，他形容听到消息后有种遥远的悲伤，像得知前女友突然车祸去世。
7th October 2026
I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields. Last summer I even thought for a few days that I had actually solved it.
But it's supposedly proven here - problem 180. I don't know what to think exactly. I spent thousands of hours on that problem. I really enjoyed it. Hearing that it is solved somehow makes me sad in a far-off way, like hearing an ex-girlfriend died suddenly in a car crash. I don't know, there's probably a lot of people feeling odd emotions tonight.
— Jake Boggan, Hacker News comment on openai/math
来源：Simon Willison · simonwillison.net