Hacker Papers

1. 101
   

   The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot

   Sida Peng et al. · 2023

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   • 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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2. 102
   

   Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation

   Maik Larooij, Petter Törnberg · 2025

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   • 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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3. 103
   

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

   Altaf Shaik et al. · 2015

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   • 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

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4. 104
   

   Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks

   Michael Schwarz et al. · 2017

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   • 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

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5. 105
   

   There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem

   Gary McGuire et al. · 2012

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   • Jan 2012Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem [pdf]
   • Mar 2012There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem
   • Jun 2017Can Neural Networks Crack Sudoku?
   • Jun 2019Let’s Publish Everything
   • Jun 2019Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016)
   • May 2023Problems harder than NP-Complete

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6. 106
   

   Mission Apollo: Landing Optical Circuit Switching at Datacenter Scale

   Ryohei Urata et al. · 2022

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   • Apr 2023TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
   • Apr 2023HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it
   • Oct 2023Optical Circuit Switching for ML Systems
   • Jun 2026Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale

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7. 107
   

   egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation

   Max Willsey et al. · 2020

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   • Oct 2020egg: Fast and Extensible E-graphs
   • Mar 2021Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
   • Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
   • Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
   • Dec 2023Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation

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8. 108
   

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

   Tim Menzies et al. · 2016

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   • 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

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9. 109
   

   Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding

   Peyman Afshani et al. · 2019

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   • 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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10. 110
    

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

    Adam Yedidia, Scott Aaronson · 2016

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    • 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

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11. 111
    

    A Comparison of the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Integration Technology with Nvidia GPU-based Systems for Artificial Intelligence

    Yudhishthira Kundu et al. · 2025

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    • Mar 2025Cerebras Wafer-Scale Integration vs. Nvidia GPU-Based Systems for AI
    • May 2025Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
    • Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
    • Oct 2025Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G
    • Oct 2025Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

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12. 112
    

    Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code

    Andrea Corallo et al. · 2020

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    • May 2021Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)
    • Sep 2022Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
    • May 2020Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video]
    • Jul 2020Bump Emacs Version to 27.1
    • May 2021TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D

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13. 113
    

    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

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14. 114
    

    AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers

    Mordechai Guri · 2020

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    • Dec 2020Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
    • Dec 2020Exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi [pdf]
    • Sep 2026Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers (2020)
    • Dec 2020Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems
    • Nov 2023Chinese spies had acces to Dutch chip maker NXP's systems for over two years
    • Jan 2026Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Networks

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15. 115
    

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

    Massimo Bartoletti et al. · 2017

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    • 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

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16. 116
    

    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

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    • 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

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17. 117
    

    Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks

    Marc Ohm et al. · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2020Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks
    • May 2020The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
    • Apr 2021Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
    • Sep 2025DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware

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18. 118
    

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

    Linxing Preston Jiang et al. · 2018

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    • 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

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19. 119
    

    Classic Nintendo Games are (Computationally) Hard

    Greg Aloupis et al. · 2012

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    • Nov 2015Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
    • Mar 2012Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
    • Mar 2012Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
    • Sep 2017The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard
    • Dec 2017Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
    • Aug 2019How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]

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20. 120
    

    Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

    Zhenghao Hu et al. · 2018

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    • 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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21. 121
    

    A Fast x86 Implementation of Select

    Prashant Pandey et al. · 2017

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    • 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

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22. 122
    

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

    Yossef Oren et al. · 2015

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    • 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

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23. 123
    

    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

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24. 124
    

    Consistently faster and smaller compressed bitmaps with Roaring

    Daniel Lemire et al. · 2016

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    • 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

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25. 125
    

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

    Daniel Etiemble · 2019

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    • 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

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