Hacker Papers
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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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Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
- Nov 2016Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
- Nov 2016EmDrive study officially published
- Dec 2016Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
- Dec 2016LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown
- Dec 2016First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
- Dec 2016First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
- Dec 2016First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
- Mar 2017Free Will
- Mar 2024Anomalous contribution to galactic rotation curves due to stochastic spacetime
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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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Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration?
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
- Nov 2018Interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
- Jan 2019A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
- Feb 2019Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us
- Jan 2021Harvard Professor Says Alien Technology Visited Earth in 2017
- Jan 2021Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?
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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
- 58
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
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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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The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 61
A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- May 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- Aug 2016Introducing Quil: A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- Sep 2016QCL – A Programming Language for Quantum Computers
- Jun 2017The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge
- Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
- Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
- Apr 2018Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
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Apparent evidence for Hawking points in the CMB Sky
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2018Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky
- Aug 2018Possible evidence of black holes from a different universe
- Jan 2019An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
- Oct 2020An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
- Aug 2022We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
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Leveraging Secondary Storage to Simulate Deep 54-qubit Sycamore Circuits
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Leveraging secondary storage to simulate deep 54-qubit sycamore sircuits
- Oct 2019IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy
- Dec 2020Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
- Jul 2021Strong quantum computational advantage using a superconducting quantum processor
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
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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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A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
- 66
Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement
Hacker News threads
- 67
The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter
Hacker News threads
- 68
Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Hacker News threads
- 69
Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
Hacker News threads
- 70
Shor's Algorithm Does Not Factor Large Integers in the Presence of Noise
Hacker News threads
- 71
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Hacker News threads
- 72
Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance
Hacker News threads
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Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
- 74
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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