Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (2016) (opens in new tab)

As accessible on the "past" link above, there was a good discussion earlier on this solution of sphere-packing in d = 8 and d = 24, featuring an epic explanatory comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11394534

Note this is from 2016.

http://oeis.org/A257479 Maximal kissing number in n dimensions: maximal number of unit spheres that can touch another unit sphere.

Now I wait for a github link