Hacker Papers
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Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them [pdf]
- Dec 2017Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them (ECDSA, SHA256)
- Jul 2019Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them
- Nov 2017Ask HN: Where do you think Bitcoin will be by 2020?
- Jan 2018NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 1 Submissions
- Apr 2018Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security
- Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
- 77
Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
- 78
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
- 79
Is the quantum state real? An extended review of $ψ$-ontology theorems
Hacker News threads
- 80
From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 81
Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing
Hacker News threads
- 82
Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
Hacker News threads
- May 2013Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
- Mar 2014Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
- May 2013
- May 2013
- May 2013
- Nov 2013Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fusion devices
- Nov 2013Preorder your very own cold fusion reactor
- Feb 2016The E-Cat has been replicated?
- 83
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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What is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015What Is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
- Dec 2015What Is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
- Dec 2015What Is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
- Dec 2015When can Quantum Annealing win?
- Dec 2015Google, NASA: Our quantum computer is 100M times faster than normal PC
- Dec 2015Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup
- May 2016Google Announced their D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer Works (2015)
- Sep 2016D-Wave Founder's New Startup Combines AI, Robots, and Monkeys in Exo-Suits
- 85
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?
- 86
Scale-free networks are rare
Hacker News threads
- 87
That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017The aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox
- Nov 2017That is not dead which can eternal lie
- Oct 2023That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation for Fermi's paradox
- Jul 2017Dissolving the Fermi Paradox [pdf]
- Jul 2017A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet
- Jun 2018What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from now
- Oct 2018Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test
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Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
Hacker News threads
- 89
Constructor Theory of Information
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Constructor Theory of Information
- Nov 2014Constructor Theory of Information
- Mar 2019Constructor Theory of Information
- May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
- May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
- Dec 2014Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise
- Apr 2021How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility
- 90
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
- 91
An Introduction to Quantum Computing
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019An Introduction to Quantum Computing
- Sep 2022An Introduction to Quantum Computing (2007)
- Aug 2015NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms
- Jun 2017Ask HN: Where can I find open course materials on Quantum Computing?
- Feb 2020Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra
- Feb 2020An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)
- 92
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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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?
- 94
An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists
Hacker News threads
- 95
A dialog on quantum gravity
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2012A dialog on quantum gravity (2003)
- Jan 2016String Theory Might Merge with Loop Quantum Gravity
- Jul 2017Quirks of the arXiv
- May 2022X-Clacks-Overhead
- 96
Starlink Generation 2 Mini Satellites: Photometric Characterization
Hacker News threads
- 97
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Hacker News threads
- 98
The Proof of Innocence
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2012Physicist challenges a traffic case about running a red light. He Won [pdf]
- Apr 2012[pdf] Proof of Innocence, or how a Physicist gets out of a traffic ticket.
- Apr 2012Judge vs. Physics Professor: The Proof of Innocence
- Apr 2012Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
- Jul 2017Quirks of the arXiv
- Oct 2023The Proof of Innocence
- 99
The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light
Hacker News threads
- 100
Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?
Hacker News threads
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