AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
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- Oct 29, 2026
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AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 58 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #8 of 30, reached on Oct 31, 20:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 1, 03:37 UTC.
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I think the royal combo is Lean 4/TLA+/etc. plus AI plus a deterministic generator. For large systems formal method assertions need to be compressed down to a human comprehensible size. This can happen when the assertions are confirming the accuracy of a model and its attached code generators. The generator can…
What do people think of property based testing? I’ve set up a few property based tests and it feels almost like formal verification. I know it’s not the same thing, but PBT’s can catch all sorts of absolutely crazy bugs that I never would think to check for. Stateful stuff, cross-service stuff. My only gripe with…
> ... But we expect, in the next few months and years, people will focus way more on the specifications, on the models, on the properties you want the software to have. Does anyone have resources on learning modelling for formal verification? (Does not have to be in Lean)
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Is AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 1, 03:37 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura reached?
#8 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 31, 20:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 31, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (58 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
177 points and 38 comments; submitted by datascientist on Oct 29, 2026.