Hacker Papers

1. 126
   

   One SQL to Rule Them All

   Edmon Begoli et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2019One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables
   • Aug 2020Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
   • Aug 2020Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
   • Jan 2021Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?
   • Apr 2021Internal Consistency in Streaming Systems
   • Jun 2021Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files

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2. 127
   

   Real Differences between OT and CRDT in Correctness and Complexity for Consistency Maintenance in Co-Editors

   David Sun et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
   • May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
   • May 2019Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor
   • Jun 2019Creating a Collaborative Editor
   • Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
   • Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing

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3. 128
   

   Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones

   Jiska Classen et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2022When Wireless Malware Stays on After Turning Off iPhones [pdf]
   • May 2022Everything with a battery should have an off switch
   • Jun 2022Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones
   • Dec 2022How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? (2021)
   • Aug 2025Burner Phone 101

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4. 129
   

   Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius

   Jens Ducrée · 2022

   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

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5. 130
   

   Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

   Yihao Sun et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2023GDlog: A GPU-Accelerated Deductive Engine
   • Dec 2023GDlog: A GPU-Accelerated Deductive Engine
   • Jan 2024Ask HN: Who's writing recursive queries / Datalog?
   • Oct 2024Game Programming in Prolog
   • Nov 2024What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)
   • Apr 2026Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

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6. 131
   

   Insecure Until Proven Updated: Analyzing AMD SEV's Remote Attestation

   Robert Buhren et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2020How SGX Fails in Practice
   • Jul 2020Confidential VMs
   • Aug 2020Why Confidential Computing Is a Game Changer
   • Oct 2025Trusted Execution Environments? More Like "Trust Us, Bro" Environments

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7. 132
   

   It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter

   John Ousterhout · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2024It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
   • Oct 2022It's time to replace TCP in the Datacenter
   • Nov 2022Moving past TCP in the data center, part 2
   • Feb 2023Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers?
   • May 2023Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
   • Oct 2023HN thread 38049303

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8. 133
   

   Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

   Ran Duan et al. · 2025

   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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9. 134
   

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

   Maik Larooij, Petter Törnberg · 2025

   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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10. 135
    

    Mission Apollo: Landing Optical Circuit Switching at Datacenter Scale

    Ryohei Urata et al. · 2022

    Hacker News threads

    • 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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11. 136
    

    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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12. 137
    

    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

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13. 138
    

    Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code

    Andrea Corallo et al. · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • 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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14. 139
    

    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

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15. 140
    

    Classic Nintendo Games are (Computationally) Hard

    Greg Aloupis et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • 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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16. 141
    

    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

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17. 142
    

    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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18. 143
    

    Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling

    David A. Wheeler · 2010

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2024Fully countering trusting trust through diverse double-compiling (2005)
    • Dec 2017Writing a C Compiler, Part 1
    • Mar 2026LiteLLM Python package compromised by supply-chain attack
    • Apr 2026C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell

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19. 144
    

    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)

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20. 145
    

    RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response

    Úlfar Erlingsson et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2014RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response (ACM 2014)
    • Jun 2016Apple's emphasis on 'differential privacy'
    • Aug 2017Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way
    • Sep 2017Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12

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21. 146
    

    Profunctor Optics, a Categorical Update

    Bryce Clarke et al. · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2020Profunctor Optics, a Categorical Update
    • Feb 2020Math is an insurance policy
    • Jun 2022Lenses
    • Nov 2022Why I am learning category theory

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22. 147
    

    Validating UTF-8 In Less Than One Instruction Per Byte

    John Keiser, Daniel Lemire · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2020Validating UTF-8 in Less Than One Instruction per Byte
    • Oct 2020Validating UTF-8 in Less Than One Instruction per Byte
    • Sep 2022Ask HN: Why are older processors slower at the same frequency?
    • Jan 2024How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?
    • May 2024You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings

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23. 148
    

    Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ

    Alin Deutsch et al. · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2022Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ
    • Feb 2022Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0
    • Apr 2024GQL: A New ISO Standard in Graph Query Language
    • May 2024Simplifying Join Syntax

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24. 149
    

    Better Balance by Being Biased: A 0.8776-Approximation for Max Bisection

    Per Austrin et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2017P vs. NP
    • Aug 2017A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
    • Oct 2021The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science

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25. 150
    

    Interacting Hopf Algebras

    Filippo Bonchi et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2015Graphical Linear Algebra
    • Jun 2015Matrices, diagrammatically
    • Aug 2020Graphical Linear Algebra

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