Comment by krackers
17 days ago
The previous HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374873
Apparently the open question is whether you can achieve arbitrarily high ranks. And the username is "ranksunbounded" so presumably the answer is yes, and they're teasing it this way?
I expect the name is more of a joke, not a tease of some result they've yet to reveal.
I agree the name is a joke.
By the way, I really like this comment in the previous post that explain the surprise of the new result(s) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375870