The Crushed Preprint Archive

The ABC conjecture is solved!

Whether it was for the mathematics field or for the future of human civilization, this was definitely a historic day.

As the manager of the arXiv preprint electronic archive, Cornell University felt this more than anyone else.

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University.

The tranquility of the morning was broken by a sudden accident.

The arXiv database, which had been running fairly stable for a long time, suddenly seemed to have suffered a violent DOS attack and was overwhelmed by the explosive increase in traffic.

"Sh*t! Is it a special holiday today? Why is the server stuck…"

"The number of visits has increased a hundredfold… Jesus, what happened last night?"

"God knows! Call Los Alamos National Laboratory quickly and ask them to use the backup server!"