Hacker Papers
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The Argument against Quantum Computers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]
- Oct 2019Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
- Dec 2019Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
- Oct 2021Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
- Feb 2023Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
- Dec 2024The Google Willow Thing
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
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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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Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
- 54
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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ZX-calculus for the working quantum computer scientist
Hacker News threads
- 56
Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor
Hacker News threads
- 57
Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
- May 2024Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
- May 2024Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
- May 2024
- Jul 2024New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
- Jul 2024New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
- Nov 2024Congress hears testimony on aliens
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Cool horizons for entangled black holes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Cool horizons for entangled black holes (2013)
- Jul 2013Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
- Dec 2013You can’t get entangled without a wormhole
- Jul 2015Ask HN: Is physics moving forward?
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Nov 2018Black Holes, Quantum Systems, Superconductors and Planck’s Constant Are Related
- Nov 2022What is spacetime made of?
- 59
Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?
Hacker News threads
- 60
Mission to the Gravitational Focus of the Sun: A Critical Analysis
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Interstellar Communication via Gravitational Lens
- Aug 2017Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
- Feb 2018Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens
- Jul 2019Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA
- Apr 2023Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
- Aug 2024The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
- Oct 2024First images from Euclid are in
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The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2019Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
- Jan 2023The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion (2019)
- Aug 2019The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
- Jun 2023Freeman Dyson: Gravitational Machines
- Sep 2024Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy
- 62
Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins separated by 1.3 km
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2015Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove ‘Spooky’ Interactions
- Aug 2018Do electrons think? (1949)
- May 2021What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
- May 2021What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
- Sep 2024Breaking Bell's Inequality with Monte Carlo Simulations in Python
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On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024The Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton (2010)
- Feb 2010The entropy force: a new direction for gravity
- Jul 2010Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton
- Jul 2010Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton
- Jul 2011Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?
- Apr 2013Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
- Apr 2013Physicist proposes new theory of gravity, arguig that gravity doesn't exist
- Dec 2016First test of new theory of gravity
- Feb 2019What every physicist should know about string theory
- 64
A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox
Hacker News threads
- 65
Quantum Time Crystals
Hacker News threads
- 66
Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science'
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2015Review of Stephen Wolfram’s Book a New Kind of Science by Scott Aaronson (2002)
- Jun 2011Alpha Geek
- Aug 2013Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
- Feb 2016Black Hole Tech?
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Mar 2023Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not? Well, It’s Complicated
- Dec 2023Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics
- Jul 2024An approach to the fundamental theory of physics
- 67
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2013The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
- Apr 2015Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
- Apr 2016Interview with Scott Aaronson
- Sep 2017Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"
- Jul 2019Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (2017)
- Mar 2023Not by AI
- Mar 2023A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Jul 2024A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications
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Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/'Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid
- Sep 2022Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua [pdf]
- Dec 2017Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
- Dec 2017Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
- Aug 2020Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
- Jul 2024Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample
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Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives
Hacker News threads
- 70
Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on superconducting quantum processor
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Jan 2023Scott Aaronson weighs in on purported quantum factoring breakthrough
- Jan 2023Factorization (DCQF) of a 48-bit integer using 10 trapped-ion qubits
- Aug 2023
- May 2024Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
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A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2013Poll on nature of reality
- Nov 2016A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics (2013)
- Nov 2014Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
- Sep 2015Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
- Oct 2015Quantum effects in relatively large systems
- Oct 2017The Scientific Case for P≠NP
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Jun 2020What is a photon? (2017)
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
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Expanding Confusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2011Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating
- Jul 2012How big is the entire universe?
- Aug 2015Olbers' paradox
- Aug 2018Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered
- Jun 202012 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
- Aug 2023Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified
- Dec 2023Astronomers posit that we live in a giant void
- Apr 2024Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
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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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Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement
Hacker News threads
- 75
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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