Hacker Papers
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Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Hacker News threads
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Introducing Physical Warp Drives
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Dec 2025Introducing Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
- Mar 2021Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
- Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
- May 2021Physical Warp Drives
- Dec 2021Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
- Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Jul 2024New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021)
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Are Black Hole Starships Possible
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2009The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf]
- Oct 2016Are Black Hole Starships Possible (2009) [pdf]
- Mar 2023Are Black Hole Starships Possible?
- Jun 2011Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
- Dec 2011Sending a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
- Nov 2013Interstellar travel: Starship troupers
- Apr 2015First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
- Jul 2018Timeline of the far future
- Nov 2019New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole
- May 2022Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
- Nov 2025Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN
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The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2015The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
- Jul 2015Space and Time
- Apr 2019Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
- Jul 2019What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?
- Jan 2021Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
- May 2021When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma
- Jan 2023Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? (2020) [pdf]
- Jan 2024Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
- Nov 2025A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
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Life Before Earth
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025Life Before Earth
- Sep 2015Life before Earth (2013) [pdf]
- Apr 2013Moore's Law and the Origin of Life
- Jan 2018Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
- Aug 2020Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
- Dec 2020A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
- Apr 2021When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?
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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
- Mar 2012ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
- Aug 2015Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
- Jun 2017Why is the Internet so Slow?
- Jan 2018Network Latencies and Speed of Light
- Feb 2021The Dunant subsea cable
- Nov 2021Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly
- Aug 2024DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- Oct 2025A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
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How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups?
Hacker News threads
- 33
Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
- Dec 2024Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
- Aug 2024Google proves Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing is possible
- Sep 2024Qubit Transistors Reach Error Correction Benchmark
- Nov 2024IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100x100 performance challenge
- Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough
- Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Feb 2025Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]
- Aug 2025OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography
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The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
- Sep 2018Is it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
- Jul 2025The Silurian Hypothesis (2018)
- Jun 2019Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
- Aug 2019Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Oct 2019The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
- Aug 2020Lost Advanced Civilizations
- Jan 2021Who Invented the Alphabet?
- Aug 2023Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeast Australia
- May 2024Was the Stone Age the Wood Age?
- Nov 2024The Silurian Hypothesis
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Shor's Algorithm Does Not Factor Large Integers in the Presence of Noise
Hacker News threads
- 36
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
- May 2020SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
- Dec 2022Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
- Oct 2024A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Jan 2025IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Jun 2025JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
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A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
- 38
Is the quantum state real? An extended review of $ψ$-ontology theorems
Hacker News threads
- 39
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Sep 2022Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Apr 2017Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (2013)
- Dec 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Oct 2016A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
- May 2025When was peak message in a bottle?
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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Aug 2021What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Sep 2023What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Oct 2019Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
- Jul 2020What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Sep 2020A Black Hole at the Center of Earth
- Mar 2021The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9
- Apr 2024New evidence found for Planet 9
- May 2024Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
- May 2025Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
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Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
- 42
Starlink Generation 2 Mini Satellites: Photometric Characterization
Hacker News threads
- 43
Do Black Holes have Singularities?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Roy Kerr: Do Black Holes Have Singularities?
- Feb 2024Relativistic Spaceship
- Feb 2024Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar
- Apr 2024Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole
- May 2024Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way
- Jun 2024Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
- Jul 2024Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve
- Oct 2024On the Nature of Time
- Mar 2025James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise
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Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Ask HN: What would it take to move the Earth out of its orbit?
- Mar 2021The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere
- Aug 2021Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
- Jan 2023NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success
- Mar 2025'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
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Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (full version)
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Quantum mechanics is undecidable ()
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Jun 2016Physicists discover an infinite number of quantum speed limits
- Nov 2023How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Mar 2025'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
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Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms (2001)
- Oct 2019Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
- Aug 2010Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
- Mar 2013Pilot waves: oil droplets model quantum behavior
- Sep 2014Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Feb 2018You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
- Sep 2021Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
- Oct 2021Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
- Dec 2023Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)
- Mar 2025Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
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Computational capacity of the universe
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007Computational capacity of the universe
- Feb 2015Computational capacity of the universe (2001)
- Jul 2010Computational capacity of the universe
- Aug 2007Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
- Mar 2010A Turing Machine in the Classic Style
- Mar 2016How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
- Oct 2023BB(3, 3) is Hard
- Oct 2023Find the date of your birthday in the number pi
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Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Surveying the Attitude of Physicists Concerning Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
- Apr 2017Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Feb 2019In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
- Feb 2025When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on quantum theory
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The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
- Feb 2011The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study [pdf]
- Jul 2013The Peter Principle
- Jul 2009Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations
- Nov 2010Google Engineering Management Mistakes
- Apr 2011Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
- Nov 2017Hotbed of Misinformation
- Dec 2022Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers
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DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Hacker News threads
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