Hacker Papers
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On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Jun 2024The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Apr 2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Nov 2018Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
- Aug 2021The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2021An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
- Nov 2022Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
- Jan 2023How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
- Jul 2025A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
- 27
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
Hacker News threads
- 28
How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset (PDF)
- Oct 2008"Anonymous" Facebook Dataset Is Identified as Harvard Students
- Jan 2011$3 million machine learning prize
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Dec 2017Netflix tweet raises privacy questions
- Jul 2023California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
- Sep 2025Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
- Apr 2026It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Apr 2026Show HN: I'm tracking 197 known exposures of health data from UK Biobank
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Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin – the profile of a genius
- Feb 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Oct 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Feb 2024Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
- Apr 2024New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Apr 2026Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator
- 30
Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling
Hacker News threads
- 31
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Sims
- Sep 2025Can We Fix Social Media? Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Simulation
- Aug 2025Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Social Simulation
- Aug 2025Study: Social media probably can't be fixed
- Aug 2025Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
- Oct 2025Situated Software – Clay Shirky (2004)
- Mar 2026Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
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Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)
- May 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text
- Nov 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text [pdf]
- Jul 2020An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
- Jul 2020CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
- Aug 2020Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Mar 2026A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control
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Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance
Hacker News threads
- 34
Delta State Replicated Data Types
Hacker News threads
- 35
On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
- Jan 2019On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
- Mar 2021On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
- Apr 2019Correctness – A paradigm for sustainable software development
- Jun 2019Storm 2.0
- Jan 2021 Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
- May 2021Functional Programming in Go with Generics
- Jun 2021Immutability Changes Everything (2016)
- May 2022Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021)
- May 2023Proposal to reduce loop variable scoping in Go
- Dec 2025The programmers who live in Flatland
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Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- May 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- May 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- Aug 2025Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths
- Oct 2025A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
- Feb 2026Faster Than Dijkstra?
- Feb 2026Faster Than Dijkstra?
- Feb 2026C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
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Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media
- Feb 2024Bluesky signups are now open to the public
- Feb 2024Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
- Feb 2024Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
- Sep 2024ATProto for distributed system engineers
- Apr 2025Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay"
- Jan 2026Publishing on the ATmosphere
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Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Sep 2022A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
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Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
- Jun 2024Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than XOR filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- Sep 2024When Bloom filters don't bloom (2020)
- May 2025Bloom Filters
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The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (2023)
- Mar 2023The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
- Jun 2024The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
- Jun 2023Measuring the productivity impact of generative AI
- Aug 2025AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder
- Aug 2025I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
- Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs
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Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 42
Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from (Speakerless) Air-Gapped Computers
Hacker News threads
- 43
Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Optimal bounds for open addressed hash tables without reordering
- Feb 2025Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Mar 2025Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
- Dec 2025Speeding Up Hash Tables
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TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine
- Feb 2025TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines (2018)
- Jul 2018Replacing Linux with a Database System
- Dec 2018Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
- Mar 2020Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
- Nov 2025Imperative to Relational
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On the design of text editors
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024On the design of text editors (2020)
- Mar 2022On the Design of Text Editors
- Dec 2020On the Design of Text Editors
- Mar 2022Apple Mac Studio
- Jul 2023Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
- Apr 2024Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
- Oct 2025Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
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QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Feb 2024How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Mar 2025HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
- Aug 2025Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
- Aug 2025The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
- Oct 2025HTTP3 Explained
- 47
Insecure Until Proven Updated: Analyzing AMD SEV's Remote Attestation
Hacker News threads
- 48
A Comparison of the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Integration Technology with Nvidia GPU-based Systems for Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- 49
Copy-and-Patch Compilation: A fast compilation algorithm for high-level languages and bytecode
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020)
- Sep 2021Copy-and-Patch: Fast JIT Compilation for SQL, WebAssembly, and Others
- Sep 2022Wasmtime 1.0
- Nov 2022Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically
- Dec 2023Brandt Bucher – A JIT Compiler for CPython
- Jan 2024Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
- Mar 2024Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
- Jul 2024Mining JIT traces for missing optimizations with Z3
- Apr 2025Co-designing a sparse music codec with ChatGPT o3
- Sep 2025Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers
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Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy [pdf]
- May 2019ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]
- Feb 2021Consensus Is Harder Than It Looks (2020)
- Apr 2023Transactions Aren't Everything
- Nov 2023Wrangling Monotonic Systems in TLA+
- Jan 2024RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
- Sep 2024Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2025Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs
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