Hacker Papers

1. 51
   

   New cardinality estimation algorithms for HyperLogLog sketches

   Otmar Ertl · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2017Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog
   • Jan 2018Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections
   • Nov 2018HyperMinHash: Bringing intersections to HyperLogLog
   • Mar 2021WyHLL: The most accurate 3-bits HyperLogLog

   arXiv ↗
2. 52
   

   Practical Attacks Against Privacy and Availability in 4G/LTE Mobile Communication Systems

   Altaf Shaik et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2015Practical attacks against privacy and availability in 4G/LTE systems
   • Oct 2015Practical attacks against 4G (LTE) access network protocols
   • Oct 2015Police Stingray Tools Can Indeed Record Calls
   • Nov 2018Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20
   • May 2023LTESniffer – An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

   arXiv ↗
3. 53
   

   Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks

   Michael Schwarz et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2017Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks
   • Mar 2017Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks
   • Mar 2017Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest
   • Mar 2017CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines
   • May 2018Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing
   • Jun 2022Hertzbleed Attack

   arXiv ↗
4. 54
   

   Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle

   Tim Menzies et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2017Revisiting Cost-To-Fix of Defects Throughout the Lifecycle
   • Apr 2019Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? [pdf]
   • Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
   • Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
   • Jul 2021The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist
   • Feb 2025Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

   arXiv ↗
5. 55
   

   Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding

   Peyman Afshani et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2019Lower bounds for the cost of multiplication via network coding
   • Mar 2019Integer multiplication in time O(n log n) [pdf]
   • Apr 2019Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
   • Jul 2020Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
   • Jul 2020Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)

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6. 56
   

   A Relatively Small Turing Machine Whose Behavior Is Independent of Set Theory

   Adam Yedidia, Scott Aaronson · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2023The Undecidability of BB(748): Understanding Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems [pdf]
   • May 2025What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
   • May 2025What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
   • Jun 2025BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

   arXiv ↗
7. 57
   

   Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance

   Davide Fucci et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2019Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
   • Jul 2019What I Want from a Type System (2016)
   • Mar 2020Ask HN: What benefits can I provide to improve employee’s sleeping habits?
   • Oct 2022I’m taking some time away from Comma

   arXiv ↗
8. 58
   

   Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact

   Massimo Bartoletti et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2017Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact
   • Jun 2017Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
   • Aug 2017Ethereum Scam Database
   • Oct 2017The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything

   arXiv ↗
9. 59
   

   Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web

   Gabriel Emile Hine et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2016A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
   • Oct 2016Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effect on the Web
   • Oct 2016A Longitudinal Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum
   • Jan 2017An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in 4chan /b/ (2011) [pdf]
   • Jun 2017A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]
   • Jul 2022Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

   arXiv ↗
10. 60
    

    BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains

    Linxing Preston Jiang et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2018BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration
    • Oct 2018BrainNet: A Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains
    • Oct 2018BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface
    • Jul 2019Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface
    • Apr 2021Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?
    • Aug 2022Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

    arXiv ↗
11. 61
    

    Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

    Zhenghao Hu et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2018Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
    • Apr 2022Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier (2018)
    • Jan 2021Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
    • Aug 2018Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?
    • Feb 2021The U.S. Spent $2.2M on Security System That Wasn’t Implemented
    • Jul 2022On the use of a life (2020)

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12. 62
    

    A Fast x86 Implementation of Select

    Prashant Pandey et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2018A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
    • Jun 2017A Fast X86 Implementation of Select
    • May 2020Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries [pdf]
    • Jun 2021The NSA Instruction (2019)
    • Mar 2025Succinct data structures

    arXiv ↗
13. 63
    

    The Spy in the Sandbox -- Practical Cache Attacks in Javascript

    Yossef Oren et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2015The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript
    • Apr 2015The Spy in the Sandbox – Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript
    • Apr 2015Using JavaScript to Read L3 CPU Cache [pdf]
    • Jul 2016The Browser Is the Worst Sandbox Ever Designed
    • Apr 2017Blink-dev – Intent to Ship: SharedArrayBuffer
    • Sep 2017LLVM 5.0.0 Release

    arXiv ↗
14. 64
    

    Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from (Speakerless) Air-Gapped Computers

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2016Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers
    • Jul 2017The Adventures of AV and the Leaky Sandbox [pdf]
    • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work
    • Dec 2025How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

    arXiv ↗
15. 65
    

    Consistently faster and smaller compressed bitmaps with Roaring

    Daniel Lemire et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2024Consistently faster and smaller compressed bitmaps with Roaring (2016)
    • Aug 2020Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
    • Apr 2022A Better Compressed Bitset
    • Jan 2025Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

    arXiv ↗
16. 66
    

    Ternary circuits: why R=3 is not the Optimal Radix for Computation

    Daniel Etiemble · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2024Ternary circuits: R=3 is not the Optimal Radix for Computation (2019)
    • Feb 2020Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
    • Feb 2021The Ternary Manifesto (2012)
    • Aug 2024Base 3 Computing Beats Binary

    arXiv ↗
17. 67
    

    Do be do be do

    Sam Lindley et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2024Do be do be do (2017) [pdf]
    • Aug 2018Do Be Do Be Do
    • May 2019The C language is purely functional (2009)
    • Mar 2023Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust
    • Jan 2024scrapscript.py

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18. 68
    

    CASPaxos: Replicated State Machines without logs

    Denis Rystsov · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2018CASPaxos: Lightweight Replicated State Machines
    • Feb 2018CASPaxos: Replicated State Machines Without Logs
    • Nov 2018Writing Network Drivers in Go [pdf]
    • Jan 2020CASPaxos: Linearizable Databases Without Logs
    • Jan 2022Paxos

    arXiv ↗
19. 69
    

    Delta State Replicated Data Types

    Paulo Sérgio Almeida et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2021Delta State Replicated Data Types (2016)
    • Sep 2017Databases and Distributed Deadlocks: A FAQ
    • Apr 2022Locutus: A platform for building decentralized apps, from the creator of Freenet
    • Mar 2026An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

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20. 70
    

    Faster 64-bit universal hashing using carry-less multiplications

    Daniel Lemire, Owen Kaser · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2015Faster 64-bit universal hashing using carry-less multiplications
    • Oct 2015Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications
    • Mar 2016HighwayHash: Strong hashing at 0.3 clock cycles per byte
    • Dec 2016Screaming Fast Galois Field Arithmetic Using Intel SIMD Instructions (2013)

    arXiv ↗
21. 71
    

    Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation

    Breck Yunits · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2021Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation (2017)
    • Sep 2019In 2027, at least 7 out of the top Tiobe languages will be Tree Languages
    • Jun 2021When it comes to Git history, less is more
    • Dec 2022Delimiter-First Code

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22. 72
    

    What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?

    Andrej Bauer · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2025What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?
    • Feb 2022Structurally-Typed Condition Handling
    • Sep 2025What is algebraic about algebraic effects?
    • May 2026Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

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23. 73
    

    Incompleteness Ex Machina

    Sebastian Oberhoff · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2022Incompleteness Ex Machina
    • Apr 2023Incompleteness Ex Machina [pdf] [2019]
    • Dec 2019A Computability Proof of Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem
    • Sep 2021New math book rescues landmark topology proof
    • Jun 2025BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

    arXiv ↗
24. 74
    

    A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus

    Raul Rojas · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2025A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (2015)
    • Feb 2025A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (2015)
    • Jul 2016Lambda Calculus Interactive Tutorial
    • Oct 2018Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (1993)
    • Jul 2020Ask HN: Where do I go to learn more about the lambda calculus?

    arXiv ↗
25. 75
    

    Motion Sensor-based Privacy Attack on Smartphones

    S Abhishek Anand et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2021Motion Sensor-Based Privacy Attack on Smartphones
    • Sep 2020Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads
    • Nov 2021iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
    • Nov 2022People Still Think Their Smart Speakers Are Eavesdropping on Conversations

    arXiv ↗

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