Jake Boggan reacts to reported proof of Barnette's Conjecture, a graph theory problem

Jake Boggan, a Hacker News commenter, reacted to reports that Barnette's Conjecture, a graph theory problem he spent years studying, has been proven, as listed in openai/math problem 180. He said he had spent thousands of hours on the problem and had briefly believed he solved it last summer. He described the news as bittersweet.