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
Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Jul 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Mar 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Mar 2018The Role of Luck in Life Is Still Misunderstood
- Apr 2018Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
- Oct 2018The annoying habits of highly effective people
- Dec 2019Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
- Sep 2020Six Figures in 6 days
- Jun 2021Why Success is more Luck than Hard Work
- Oct 2023Private Equity Is Devouring the U.S. Economy
- Jun 2026Hacker News actively blocking SpaceX IPO submissions
- 03
How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
- Jan 2020A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- May 2020The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Sep 2023Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Jan 2025Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work
- Mar 2026Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]
- 04
The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
- Sep 2018Is it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
- Jul 2025The Silurian Hypothesis (2018)
- Jun 2019Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
- Aug 2019Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Oct 2019The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
- Aug 2020Lost Advanced Civilizations
- Jan 2021Who Invented the Alphabet?
- Aug 2023Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeast Australia
- May 2024Was the Stone Age the Wood Age?
- Nov 2024The Silurian Hypothesis
- 05
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Aug 2021What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Sep 2023What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Oct 2019Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
- Jul 2020What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Sep 2020A Black Hole at the Center of Earth
- Mar 2021The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9
- Apr 2024New evidence found for Planet 9
- May 2024Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
- May 2025Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
- 06
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
- 07
Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Nov 2023Struggles with the Continuum
- Jan 2024Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Jul 2026How real are real numbers? (2004)
- 08
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar (2015)
- Jun 2021Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar
- Feb 2015Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar [pdf]
- Sep 2018Raytracing a Black Hole
- Mar 2019Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
- Apr 2019Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
- Aug 2024Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- Nov 2024Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
- May 2026Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
- 09
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"
- 10
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (full version)
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Quantum mechanics is undecidable ()
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Jun 2016Physicists discover an infinite number of quantum speed limits
- Nov 2023How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Mar 2025'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
- 11
Apparent evidence for Hawking points in the CMB Sky
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2018Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky
- Aug 2018Possible evidence of black holes from a different universe
- Jan 2019An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
- Oct 2020An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
- Aug 2022We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
- 12
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"
- 13
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
- 14
Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond by John Preskill
- Jul 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
- Aug 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond – John Preskill
- Jan 2018The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
- Jul 2018Getting Started with Quantum Computing in Python
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2018US takes first step toward a quantum computing workforce
- May 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- Dec 2020First release of quantum operating system, Deltaflow
- 15
Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Apr 2017Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out
- Jun 2017By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2019Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- 16
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
- 17
Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration?
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
- Nov 2018Interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
- Jan 2019A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
- Feb 2019Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us
- Jan 2021Harvard Professor Says Alien Technology Visited Earth in 2017
- Jan 2021Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?
- 18
A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- May 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- Aug 2016Introducing Quil: A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- Sep 2016QCL – A Programming Language for Quantum Computers
- Jun 2017The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge
- Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
- Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
- Apr 2018Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
- 19
A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
- 20
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
- 21
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
- 22
Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2017Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
- Jul 2017Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
- Jul 2017Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
- Jul 2017First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit (500 km) by China
- Jul 2019Scientists Just Teleported an Object into Space for the First Time
- Dec 2020Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time (2017)
- 23
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
- 24
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (short version)
Hacker News threads
- 25
Quantum resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms
Hacker News threads
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