Hacker Papers

1. 01
   

   Starlink Generation 2 Mini Satellites: Photometric Characterization

   Anthony Mallama et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2023Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers
   • Sep 2023SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up with 1M
   • Apr 2024LSST Camera: largest camera for astronomy
   • Apr 2025An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution

   arXiv ↗
2. 02
   

   Do Black Holes have Singularities?

   R. P. Kerr · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2023Roy Kerr: Do Black Holes Have Singularities?
   • Feb 2024Relativistic Spaceship
   • Feb 2024Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar
   • Apr 2024Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole
   • May 2024Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way
   • Jun 2024Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
   • Jul 2024Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve
   • Oct 2024On the Nature of Time
   • Mar 2025James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

   arXiv ↗
3. 03
   

   Shor's Algorithm Does Not Factor Large Integers in the Presence of Noise

   Jin-Yi Cai · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2024Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems
   • Apr 2024Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems
   • May 2024What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
   • Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
   • Jul 2025Conceptual synaesthesia as cognitive literacy

   arXiv ↗

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