Hacker Papers
- 01
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf]
- Nov 2016Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)
- Jun 2014Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)
- Jun 2015Category Theory for Scientists and Engineers (2013) [pdf]
- Nov 2017What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]
- Jun 2018Logic is Metaphysics (2011) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language
- Sep 2020Programming with Categories
- Nov 2022Why mathematicians study knots
- Feb 2025Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets
- Oct 2026How to Formalize All of Mathematics
- 02
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2012Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Dec 2019New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
- Jan 2021Are Experts Real?
- Jul 2023Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
- Oct 2024Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
- Sep 2026DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
- Oct 2026CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
- 03
Ultimate physical limits to computation
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]
- Jul 2011Ultimate physical limits to computation
- Feb 2018Ultimate physical limits to computation
- Nov 2010128-bit storage: are you high?
- Apr 2011Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work
- Oct 2012The game of life emulated in the game of life
- Jun 2015Universal Limits on Computation (2004) [pdf]
- Apr 2016Bremermann's limit
- Jul 2019First 3D Nanotube and RRAM ICs Come Out of Foundry
- Jan 2021Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
- Oct 2022Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln
- 04
The World as a Hologram
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2026The World as a Hologram
- Jun 2018The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
- Sep 2019Simulation of what a massive black hole would look like
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- 05
The Mathematical Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
- Apr 2009MUH: The Universe is a Mathematical Structure
- Jan 2018The Mathematical Universe (2007)
- Oct 2010USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' (Feb 2010)
- May 2014When does a physical system compute?
- Oct 2014The Grand Illusion: Does time have a future?
- Nov 2016Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring
- Mar 2019Sub-Acute Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking
- Jun 2022Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read?
- Aug 2022Why does anything exist?
- Sep 2026Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
- 06
Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look
- Sep 2022Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look (2014)
- Aug 2026Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look
- Jul 2016There Is No Distinctly Scientific Method
- Oct 2016So You Want to Learn Physics
- Jan 2017Why read old philosophy?
- Nov 2017Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire
- Jan 2022Why Quantum Mechanics?
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- Jun 2025Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018)
- 07
There are no particles, there are only fields
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jun 2024There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jul 2026There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Sep 2016Struggles with the Continuum
- Nov 2017Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (2011)
- Jul 2019What’s Going on During Wave Function ‘Collapse’
- Jul 2019The Trouble with Many Worlds
- Dec 2020Thirty Years of ‘Against Measurement’
- Sep 2024What Is a Particle? (2020)
- Feb 2026Cosmologically Unique IDs
- Jun 2026How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
- 08
Nonlinear quantum mechanics implies polynomial-time solution for NP-complete and #P problems
Hacker News threads
- May 2010What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- Feb 2011A Deepness In The Sky
- Sep 2015You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- 09
Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing
Hacker News threads
- 10
Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance
Hacker News threads
- 11
Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
Hacker News threads
- 12
Power-law distributions in empirical data
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2009Power Laws in Chess Openings
- Mar 2011Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique
- Apr 2013Data Science of the Facebook World
- Jul 2016Anti Mediocracy Manifesto for Software Development
- Sep 2016Bitcoin Wealth Distribution
- Jun 2018Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (2010) [pdf]
- Aug 2023Power Laws Have More Power Than You Think
- Feb 2026Formalization and Inevitability of the Pareto Principle
- 13
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
- 14
Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2013Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer
- Dec 2017Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
- Sep 2019IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
- May 2021Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf]
- Jan 2024Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
- May 2024What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
- Jan 20262026 Predictions Scorecard
- 15
Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Hacker News threads
- 16
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
- 17
The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2015The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
- Jul 2015Space and Time
- Apr 2019Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
- Jul 2019What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?
- Jan 2021Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
- May 2021When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma
- Jan 2023Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? (2020) [pdf]
- Jan 2024Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
- Nov 2025A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
- 18
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?
- 19
Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
- Mar 2012ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
- Aug 2015Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
- Jun 2017Why is the Internet so Slow?
- Jan 2018Network Latencies and Speed of Light
- Feb 2021The Dunant subsea cable
- Nov 2021Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly
- Aug 2024DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- Oct 2025A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
- 20
Is the quantum state real? An extended review of $ψ$-ontology theorems
Hacker News threads
- 21
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Sep 2022Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Apr 2017Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (2013)
- Dec 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Oct 2016A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
- May 2025When was peak message in a bottle?
- 22
Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
- 23
Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Ask HN: What would it take to move the Earth out of its orbit?
- Mar 2021The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere
- Aug 2021Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
- Jan 2023NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success
- Mar 2025'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
- 24
Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms (2001)
- Oct 2019Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
- Aug 2010Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
- Mar 2013Pilot waves: oil droplets model quantum behavior
- Sep 2014Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Feb 2018You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
- Sep 2021Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
- Oct 2021Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
- Dec 2023Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)
- Mar 2025Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
- 25
Computational capacity of the universe
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007Computational capacity of the universe
- Feb 2015Computational capacity of the universe (2001)
- Jul 2010Computational capacity of the universe
- Aug 2007Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
- Mar 2010A Turing Machine in the Classic Style
- Mar 2016How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
- Oct 2023BB(3, 3) is Hard
- Oct 2023Find the date of your birthday in the number pi
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