Hacker Papers
- 01
Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
- Oct 2020Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)
- Sep 2012Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
- Aug 2010Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious
- Jul 2014Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
- Apr 2017Bitcoin Mining is NP-hard (2014)
- Apr 2019P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
- Feb 2020It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
- Apr 2021Nassim Taleb says Bitcoin is an open Ponzi scheme and a failed currency
- Apr 2024AI used well can restore middle class jobs [pdf]
- Jul 2026Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP
- 02
On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits [pdf]
- Mar 2017On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming
- Nov 2015Increased intelligence is a myth so far (2014)
- Dec 2015The cult of genius?
- Apr 2016This is for PZ Myers
- Mar 2017Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA
- May 2017Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
- Jul 2017China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)
- Jul 2020Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]
- 03
Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
- Oct 2018Neuroscientist found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
- Dec 2021Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed
- Feb 2022Google Search Is Dying
- Nov 2022Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
- May 2023Reddit comments and submissions from 2005-06 to 2022-12 collected by Pushshift
- Dec 2023At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
- Aug 2024Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
- 04
A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Nov 2024Overview of differential geometry for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Sep 2025A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [pdf]
- May 2017How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
- Nov 2017Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles
- Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]
- Dec 2018Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained
- Apr 2019Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Mar 2024Claude 3 Opus reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts
- Dec 2025What I don’t like about chains of thoughts (2023)
- 05
No need for conspiracy: Self-organized cartel formation in a modified trust game
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2012Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists
- Mar 2014How are cold-calling ceasefires illegal?
- Feb 2015The Billion Dollar Startup Club
- Jul 2015Airbnb, My $1B Lesson
- Jan 2016Economics Simulation
- Aug 2017Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
- Mar 2021U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes
- Aug 2024San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents
- 06
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Aug 2021Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (2020)
- Sep 2024Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails [pdf]
- Feb 2020Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
- Mar 2020Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
- Mar 2020Black Swan Events
- Apr 2020New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
- Oct 2020The Three Sides of Risk
- Oct 2020Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
- Jul 2023It Takes Long to Become Gaussian
- May 2024Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
- 07
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Precautionary Principle (As Applied to GMOs) [Taleb et al]
- Nov 2014The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- Jul 2015The Mathiness of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Nov 2016We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
- Mar 2018Why I’m quitting GMO research
- Apr 2018EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
- Dec 2018Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
- 08
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
- Sep 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Jul 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Aug 2021Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?
- Jan 2022Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
- Apr 2022The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
- May 2022Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
- May 2023How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From The 80s Took Over Crypto
- 09
If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Nov 2022If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (2021)
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Feb 2021Once we can see them, it’s too late
- Sep 2021If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- Jun 2024Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites
- Nov 2024Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress
- 10
Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2020Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach
- Nov 2022Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach: Taleb (2017)
- Dec 2017The Data That Threatened to Break Physics
- Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
- Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
- Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
- Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
- Nov 2020Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?
- 11
The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2025The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Nov 2020Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
- Mar 2021What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?
- Oct 2024We Can Terraform the American West
- 12
On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time
- Nov 2015On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts
- Mar 2018The PowerPoint Philosophe: Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment
- Jul 2022Voyager suspends trading, deposits, withdrawals, and loyalty rewards
- Feb 2024Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
- 13
MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics
Hacker News threads
- 14
Information Transmission Between Financial Markets in Chicago and New York
Hacker News threads
- 15
Towards deep learning with segregated dendrites
Hacker News threads
- 16
Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data
Hacker News threads
- 17
A note comprising a negative resolution of the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Hacker News threads
- 18
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview
Hacker News threads
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