Hacker Papers
- 01
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
- May 2021Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
- Jun 2025Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
- Jun 2018Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
- Jun 2019End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf]
- May 2020Timeline of the Far Future
- Dec 2020Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress
- May 2021Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find
- Oct 2022Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox
- Apr 2024Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
- Jan 2026SETI Home Is in Hiberation
- 02
Are Black Hole Starships Possible
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2009The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf]
- Oct 2016Are Black Hole Starships Possible (2009) [pdf]
- Mar 2023Are Black Hole Starships Possible?
- Jun 2011Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
- Dec 2011Sending a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
- Nov 2013Interstellar travel: Starship troupers
- Apr 2015First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
- Jul 2018Timeline of the far future
- Nov 2019New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole
- May 2022Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
- Nov 2025Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN
- 03
The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Jun 2014Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
- Jan 2017The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Jun 2017What Is Mathematics and What Should It Be? [pdf]
- Oct 2019Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes
- Mar 2020Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
- Mar 2020Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
- Oct 2020Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
- 04
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
- 05
How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
Hacker News threads
- May 2025How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
- May 2025Google Researcher Lowers Quantum Bar to Crack RSA Encryption
- May 2025It Might Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break Bitcoin, Google Says
- Aug 2025Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- Aug 2025Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- Oct 2025Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
- Oct 2025Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
- Nov 2025Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow
- Jul 2026France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
- 06
The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]
- May 2008The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
- May 2024The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)
- Oct 2009Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments?
- Nov 2019Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
- Apr 2022Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
- Oct 2023The Wait Equation and AI Investment
- Jan 20254.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Jan 2026Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
- 07
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2011Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
- Nov 2011Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol
- Nov 2012Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]
- Feb 2013Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins
- Apr 2013Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State
- Jan 2014Bitcoin 2.0 explained
- 08
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"
- 09
MIP*=RE
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020MIP*=Re
- Aug 2021MIP* = Re
- Jan 2020Recent groundbreaking result in complexity theory: MIP*=RE
- Jan 2020'Remarkable' MIP*=RE proof describes how to solve seemingly impossible problem
- Mar 2020Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
- Mar 2020Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
- Apr 2020Mathematicians try to understand how CS proof solves Connes embedding conjecture
- Mar 2023Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days?
- Aug 2023Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
- 10
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
- 11
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
- May 2020SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
- Dec 2022Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
- Oct 2024A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Jan 2025IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Jun 2025JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
- 12
Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 13
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?
- 14
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
- 15
A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
- 16
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Hacker News threads
- 17
Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
- 18
Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
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