Hacker Papers

1. 151
   

   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 ↗
2. 152
   

   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 ↗
3. 153
   

   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 ↗
4. 154
   

   Pattern-defeating Quicksort

   Orson R. L. Peters · 2021

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2021Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
   • May 2023Ask HN: What is new in Algorithms / Data Structures these days?
   • Jun 202310~17x faster than what? A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)

   arXiv ↗
5. 155
   

   The JPEG XL Image Coding System: History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale, and Future

   Jon Sneyers et al. · 2025

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2025The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale
   • Jun 2025The JPEG XL Image Coding System
   • Jul 2025JPEG XL Coding System: History, Features, Tools, Design Rationale and Future
   • Mar 2026JPEG Compression
   • Aug 2026Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
   • Sep 2026The case against JPEG XL
   • Oct 2026Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

   arXiv ↗
6. 156
   

   Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering

   Martin Farach-Colton et al. · 2025

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2025Optimal bounds for open addressed hash tables without reordering
   • Feb 2025Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
   • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
   • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
   • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
   • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
   • Mar 2025Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
   • Dec 2025Speeding Up Hash Tables

   arXiv ↗
7. 157
   

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

   Yudhishthira Kundu et al. · 2025

   Hacker News threads

   • 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])

   arXiv ↗
8. 158
   

   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. 159
   

   Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform

   Haitham Hassanieh et al. · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2013Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform
   • Jan 2012The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
   • Mar 2012A speed-up in Fast Fourier Transforms could change the modern world
   • May 2012Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology

   arXiv ↗

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