Hacker Papers
- 01
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
- 02
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
- 03
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
- 04
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
- 05
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
- 06
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
- 07
Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 08
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?
- 09
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Hacker News threads
- 10
Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
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