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Wow I had no idea. Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39325146 - Feb 2024 (8 comments)

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36191831 - June 2023 (92 comments)

An Anonymous 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968618 - July 2020 (7 comments)

Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061 - Oct 2018 (198 comments)

If anyone can find other threads in this set, let me know and I'll add them here.

I hope there is a specific order we should look at these threads.

You can read them in any order

Oh no

Fear not, there is a handy proof we can use here...

Let's try them all and see which order is the best.

The image in the upper-right of the Fandom link was how it was posted in the 4chan thread, little disappointing it's left out of most posts about it.

The character is actually from Steins;Gate, not The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: https://steins-gate.fandom.com/wiki/Kurisu_Makise

Kurisu in front of a whiteboard with "You should be able to solve this" is a fairly famous post format.