Hacker Papers
- 01
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
- 02
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
- 03
Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 04
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
- 05
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
- 06
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
- 07
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 08
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
- Jun 2017Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)
- Jul 2026Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Oct 2014The octave – history of a discovery
- Mar 2016Show HN: 19 Tone Equal Temperament Piano in Web Audio
- Sep 2016Music theory for nerds
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- May 2020Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company
- 09
Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond
Hacker News threads
- 10
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
- Aug 2022The Fastest And Shortest Algorithm For All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
- Jan 2017Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
- Feb 2017From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)
- Jun 2019Galactic Algorithms (2010)
- May 2021The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (2002)
- 11
Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2013Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
- Mar 2016Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time (2001)
- Feb 2008Smoothed Analysis: Why The Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time.
- Jan 2011The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
- Jun 2016Linear Programming: How Does It Work?
- Jun 2022The Simplex Solution: Why it works so well
- Nov 2024Suits, money laundering, and linear programming
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