Hacker Papers
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Is "the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory?
Hacker News threads
- 27
Generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain - SmoothLife
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Generalization of Conway's “Game of Life” to a Continuous Domain
- Oct 2012Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
- May 2018Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy
- Jun 2021ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
- Nov 2022In Game of Life any buildable pattern can be constructed by colliding 15 gliders
- Jan 2024Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns
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Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 29
Nonlinear quantum mechanics implies polynomial-time solution for NP-complete and #P problems
Hacker News threads
- May 2010What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- Feb 2011A Deepness In The Sky
- Sep 2015You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
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DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Hacker News threads
- 31
The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2008The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
- Jul 2013Faster Than the Speed of Light?
- Aug 2018Alcubierre drive
- Nov 2020Warp Drive News
- Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
- Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
- Dec 2021No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble
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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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Quantum Picturalism
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015The Wholeness of Quantum Reality: An Interview with Physicist Basil Hiley
- Jun 2018A brief introduction to quantum computing
- May 2020Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Dec 2024A particle physics course for high-school students
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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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On the reality of the quantum state
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2011The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically
- Nov 2011Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Nov 2011Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Nov 2011The insanely weird quantum wave function might be "real" after all
- Apr 2014Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time
- Oct 2016How Schrödinger’s Cat Became Such a Violent Fable
- Jan 2018The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
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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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The Free Will Theorem
Hacker News threads
- 38
Consciousness as a State of Matter
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014Consciousness as a State of Matter
- Apr 2017Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)
- Jan 2019Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
- Dec 2015Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014)
- Dec 2015Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014)
- Jul 2017Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
- Sep 2017The Hardening of Consciousness
- Oct 2019The crisis in physics is not only about physics
- 39
The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 40
Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement
Hacker News threads
- 41
The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter
Hacker News threads
- 42
Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Hacker News threads
- 43
Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
Hacker News threads
- 44
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Hacker News threads
- 45
Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance
Hacker News threads
- 46
Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
- 47
Mass Extinction And The Structure Of The Milky Way
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
- Oct 2019Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way
- Sep 2013Correlations between mass extinctions, sun's changing position in galaxy
- Jan 2017Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus
- Mar 2018All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study
- Oct 2018Panspermia
- May 2020Swarm satellites probe weakening of Earth’s magnetic field
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Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones
Hacker News threads
- May 2016Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones (2014)
- Oct 2014Cosmic rays found in smartphones
- May 2017LHC Micro Models: Build Your Own Particle Detector
- Nov 2018For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays
- Feb 2021Researchers explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation
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Is the quantum state real? An extended review of $ψ$-ontology theorems
Hacker News threads
- 50
From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
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