Hacker Papers
- 01
Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution
- Feb 2019Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix
- Mar 2019Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
- Apr 2019Lisp Operating System (2015)
- Sep 2019OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]
- Dec 2019C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
- Mar 2021Post-Spectre Web Development, Editor's Draft, 2021-03-10
- Mar 2021Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
- Aug 2023Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
- 02
Featherweight Go
Hacker News threads
- May 2020Featherweight Go
- May 2020Featherweight Go (A generics design for Go)
- Dec 2021Featherweight Go [pdf]
- Jun 2020Philip Wadler's talk on generics for Go (“Featherweight Go”)
- Jun 2020The Next Step for Generics
- Nov 2020Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
- Jan 2021A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
- May 2021Oxide: The Essence of Rust (2020)
- Mar 2022How generics are implemented in Go 1.18
- Nov 2024Borgo Programming Language
- Aug 2026Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
- 03
Software Engineering at Google
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019Software Engineering at Google (2017)
- Feb 2017Software Engineering at Google
- May 2021Software Engineering at Google [pdf]
- Feb 2017How terrible code gets written by sane people
- Apr 2017Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?
- Feb 2018Advantages of monolithic version control
- Mar 2019List of dead Google products, services, and devices
- Sep 2019How to do a code review
- Mar 2020Software Engineering at Google
- Oct 2020Ask HN: How is architecture practiced at FAANG companies?
- Jul 2022Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++
- 04
Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy [pdf]
- May 2019ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]
- Feb 2021Consensus Is Harder Than It Looks (2020)
- Apr 2023Transactions Aren't Everything
- Nov 2023Wrangling Monotonic Systems in TLA+
- Jan 2024RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
- Sep 2024Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2025Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs
- 05
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Jun 2024The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Apr 2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Nov 2018Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
- Aug 2021The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2021An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
- Nov 2022Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
- Jan 2023How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
- Jul 2025A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
- 06
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2013Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
- Nov 2013Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
- Dec 2013How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
- Jan 2014Why Bitcoin Matters
- Jun 2014It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork
- Jul 2015Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares
- Oct 2015Bitcoin-NG: A Secure, Faster, Better Blockchain
- Sep 2017Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
- Feb 2018Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
- Apr 2018A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
- 07
The Renewed Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer: Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V
- Jul 2016Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM
- Dec 2016Ask HN: What's the value proposition of RISC-V?
- Sep 2017BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core
- Dec 2017Power9 to the People
- Dec 2017Boom v2: Open-source out-of-order RISC-V core [video]
- Mar 2022RISC-V is succeeding
- May 2022India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023
- Jan 2025XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
- 08
Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting Optimized for Purely Functional Programming
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting for Purely Functional Programming
- Dec 2020A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover
- Feb 2021A simple ray tracer in Lean 4
- Jul 2022Reference count, don't garbage collect
- Sep 2022Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?
- Jun 2023Microsoft Research: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]
- Oct 2023Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
- Nov 2023HN thread 38359488
- Feb 2025Neut Programming Language
- 09
Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching (Khuong and Morin, 2015)
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Assist threads
- Oct 2015Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Processing Power (2014)
- Jun 2017SIMD / GPU Friendly Branchless Binary Search
- May 2020Lomuto's Comeback
- Jul 2020Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster
- Feb 2022Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search
- Nov 2024Fastest Branchless Binary Search
- Jul 2026Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)
- 10
Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
- Nov 2015Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
- Nov 2015Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client [pdf]
- May 2017NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
- Nov 2018Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?
- Jan 2020Doug Tygar, author of Why Johnny Can't Encrypt, has died
- Nov 2021My WhatsApp Security code changed, with no login or logout
- Dec 2021Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
- Mar 2024Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
- Apr 2024Why can't my mom email me?
- 11
A Critique of the CAP Theorem
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015A Critique of the CAP Theorem
- Jun 2017A Critique of the CAP Theorem
- Sep 2015Call Me Maybe: Percona XtraDB Cluster
- Oct 2015The CAP FAQ
- Jun 2017The Limits of the CAP Theorem
- Sep 2021Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?
- Jan 2024CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed (2012)
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2026Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
- 12
Route Planning in Transportation Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024Route Planning in Transportation Networks (2015)
- Apr 2016Route Planning in Transportation Networks
- Apr 2015On Dijkstra's Algorithm
- Oct 2016Show HN: Dijkstra’s algorithm in the web browser with OpenStreetMap
- Feb 2017JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]
- Mar 2018B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010)
- Oct 2019New pathfinding algorithm
- Jan 2024A* tricks for videogame path finding
- Jan 2024A* tricks for videogame path finding
- Mar 2024Hexagons and Hilbert curves – The headaches of distributed spatial indices
- 13
Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Silent data corruptions at scale (2021)
- Jun 2021Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
- Jul 2021Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
- Jun 2021Cores that don’t count [pdf]
- Jul 2021Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
- Jul 2021Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
- May 2022Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512
- Jan 2023ECC RAM should be a human right
- Feb 2024Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
- Aug 2024Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
- 14
Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Dec 2017Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality
- Feb 2019Syntax-Guided Synthesis
- Jan 2021Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Jan 2025Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
- Jul 2025FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
- 15
Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability: Extended Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Engineering Record and Replay(rr) for Deployability Extended Technical Report
- May 2017Engineering Record and Replay for Deployability: Extended Technical Report
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2019Debuggers Suck
- Jun 2022What rr does
- Jul 2024rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- Jul 2024rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- Mar 2025Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
- 16
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Jan 2018Proposal for Proquints
- Jul 2020Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Dec 2014Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku
- May 2015Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines
- Sep 2018How to Name a Baby (2013)
- Nov 2019Bitspeak converts hex strings to pronounceable words
- Feb 2020Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
- Sep 2020Readable Pointers
- 17
Real Differences between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
- Oct 2018Real differences between ot and crdt for co-editors
- Oct 2018Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
- May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Sep 2021The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
- Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- 18
Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 19
Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay
- Jun 2019Bitcoin climbs to $10k
- Dec 2019Erlay: A performance improvement to the Bitcoin network
- Mar 2020Erlay: Bandwidth-efficient Bitcoin transaction relay protocol
- Aug 2020Network Coding in P2P Networks
- Dec 2020Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
- Aug 2024A Technical Look at BitMessage: Learning From a Dead Project
- 20
twister - a P2P microblogging platform
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2013Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT
- Dec 2013Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
- Jan 2015Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
- Mar 2015Twister – Decentralized p2p microblogging
- Dec 2015Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
- Jun 2018Show HN: P2P decentralized messaging application over Bitcoin Cash
- 21
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Aug 2014A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Mar 2019A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
- Jun 2017When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing
- Oct 2021Consistent Hashing for Dummies
- Mar 2022S2: Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere
- May 2024Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)
- Sep 2026Saving another 100TB of RAM
- 22
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
- 23
DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Aug 2021DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Jul 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Sep 2022DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
- Dec 2023Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
- Oct 2025Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
- Sep 2026Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
- 24
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 25
Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type [a Password,] Acoustic Eavesdropping in VOIP
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type—Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP [pdf]
- Oct 2016Don't Skype and Type Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
- Sep 2018How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
- Aug 2019Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
- Apr 2020When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
- Aug 2022Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio
- Dec 2023Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
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