Hacker Papers
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Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement
Hacker News threads
- 52
Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Hacker News threads
- 53
Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
Hacker News threads
- 54
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
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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
- 58
Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing
Hacker News threads
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Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond by John Preskill
- Jul 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
- Aug 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond – John Preskill
- Jan 2018The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
- Jul 2018Getting Started with Quantum Computing in Python
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2018US takes first step toward a quantum computing workforce
- May 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- Dec 2020First release of quantum operating system, Deltaflow
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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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Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Apr 2017Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out
- Jun 2017By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2019Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
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Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyper-Fast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Hyper-fast solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory (2020)
- Mar 2021Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
- May 2021Physical Warp Drives
- Sep 2021Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
- Jan 2022The horizon problem for faster than light travel
- Mar 2023SETI@home Is in Hibernation
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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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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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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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The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 67
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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A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
- 69
The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter
Hacker News threads
- 70
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Hacker News threads
- 71
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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Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
- 73
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers
- Mar 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers (2021)
- Mar 2021Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
- Aug 2021Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
- Apr 2023Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers
- Feb 2026Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers
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From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 75
The World as a Hologram
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2026The World as a Hologram
- Jun 2018The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
- Sep 2019Simulation of what a massive black hole would look like
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
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