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
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"
- 03
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
- 04
A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
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