Hacker Papers

1. 101
   

   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

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2. 102
   

   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

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3. 103
   

   The Cost of Address Translation

   Tomasz Jurkiewicz, Kurt Mehlhorn · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2016Accessing RAM sometimes costs extra log(N)
   • Oct 2020The asymptotic cost of address translation on memory access time
   • Dec 2015Test results for Broadwell and Skylake
   • Jan 2017Maps and sets can have quadratic-time performance
   • May 2018A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table

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4. 104
   

   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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5. 105
   

   Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems

   Carl Hewitt · 2010

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2014Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems [pdf]
   • Nov 2017Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
   • Aug 2018Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]
   • Feb 2023Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisors

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6. 106
   

   A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory

   Onur Mutlu et al. · 2020

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
   • Oct 2026A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
   • Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
   • Feb 2021Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power
   • Aug 2024Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
   • Aug 2026Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math

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7. 107
   

   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

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8. 108
   

   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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9. 109
   

   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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10. 110
    

    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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11. 111
    

    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

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12. 112
    

    Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage

    Kee Jefferys et al. · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2020Session: Model for End-to-End Encrypted Conversations with Min Metadata Leakage
    • Jun 2020Russia lifts ban on Telegram
    • Oct 2021Session Encrypted Messenger
    • Jul 2025White Noise – secure and private messenger

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13. 113
    

    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?

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14. 114
    

    Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit

    Kaihua Qin et al. · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2023Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
    • Jan 2021Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)
    • May 2022Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, but Gone in a Flash
    • Feb 2024Two Ethereum DeFi traders just made $120M using a strategy called 'looping'

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15. 115
    

    Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters

    Thomas Mueller Graf, Daniel Lemire · 2022

    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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16. 116
    

    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

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17. 117
    

    A Theory of Changes for Higher-Order Languages - Incrementalizing λ-Calculi by Static Differentiation

    Yufei Cai et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Derivatives of Regular Expressions (2007)
    • May 2019Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
    • Aug 2020What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?

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18. 118
    

    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)

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19. 119
    

    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

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20. 120
    

    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

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21. 121
    

    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?

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22. 122
    

    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

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23. 123
    

    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

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24. 124
    

    QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet

    Xumiao Zhang et al. · 2023

    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

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25. 125
    

    faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets

    Hans Niklas Jacob et al. · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2023AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defeating Disk Encryption
    • May 2023FaulTPM: Exposing AMD FTPMs' Deepest Secrets
    • Jul 2023Web Environment Integrity Explainer
    • Jul 2023Web Environment Integrity API
    • Aug 2023Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
    • Nov 2023Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video]
    • Jan 2026Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
    • Jan 2026TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats to Watch Out For
    • May 2026Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit
    • May 2026Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

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