Hacker Papers

1. 76
   

   Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields

   Yoichi Ochiai et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2015A floating holographic plasma display that you can touch
   • May 2019UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
   • May 2024Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)

   arXiv ↗
2. 77
   

   Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling

   Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2020Reflections on Software Performance
   • Jun 2020C performance mystery: delete unused string constant
   • Jan 2025Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

   arXiv ↗
3. 78
   

   SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit

   Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2018Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
   • Jul 2020Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
   • Nov 2024Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

   arXiv ↗
4. 79
   

   Secure Encrypted Virtualization is Unsecure

   Zhao-Hui Du et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2020How SGX Fails in Practice
   • Jul 2020Confidential VMs
   • Mar 2021Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

   arXiv ↗
5. 80
   

   MOSQUITO: Covert Ultrasonic Transmissions between Two Air-Gapped Computers using Speaker-to-Speaker Communication

   Mordechai Guri et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2019US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds
   • Apr 2023HN thread 35355540
   • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

   arXiv ↗
6. 81
   

   WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking

   Arjaldo Karaj et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2018Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking
   • Dec 2019A New Search Engine
   • Jul 2023Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

   arXiv ↗
7. 82
   

   Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)

   Nuno Preguiça et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
   • Mar 2022Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant [pdf]
   • Dec 2022Ask HN: What are best patterns for events in distributed transactions?

   arXiv ↗
8. 83
   

   Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

   Austin Hounsel et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
   • Dec 2025RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016)
   • Mar 2026Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

   arXiv ↗
9. 84
   

   Failure of Normalization in Impredicative Type Theory with Proof-Irrelevant Propositional Equality

   Andreas Abel, Thierry Coquand · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2020Coq is a Lean Typechecker
   • Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
   • Jun 2026Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

   arXiv ↗

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