Hacker Papers
- 251
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 252
Is "the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory?
Hacker News threads
- 253
Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Sep 2022A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
- 254
LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Jul 2023LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Mar 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Can tokenizers go from fixed length tokens to varying length?
- Jul 2025Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- 255
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
- May 2020SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
- Dec 2022Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
- Oct 2024A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Jan 2025IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Jun 2025JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
- 256
Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 257
Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 258
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
- Jun 2018Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Aug 2021Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
- 259
Clustering by compression
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2018Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]
- Dec 2018The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)
- May 2021Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications
- Jul 2023Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification
- Jul 2024Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
- 260
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
- 261
DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Hacker News threads
- 262
The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2008The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
- Jul 2013Faster Than the Speed of Light?
- Aug 2018Alcubierre drive
- Nov 2020Warp Drive News
- Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
- Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
- Dec 2021No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble
- 263
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Jul 2020You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Mar 2016Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
- Apr 2019YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Oct 2025Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
- 264
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?
- 265
TinyLFU: A Highly Efficient Cache Admission Policy
Hacker News threads
- 266
BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions don't affect Quicksort
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions Don't Affect Quicksort
- Jun 2017Pattern-defeating quicksort
- Aug 2018On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort
- Jul 2021Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
- May 2023Ask HN: What is new in Algorithms / Data Structures these days?
- Jun 202310~17x faster than what? A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)
- 267
Quantum Picturalism
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015The Wholeness of Quantum Reality: An Interview with Physicist Basil Hiley
- Jun 2018A brief introduction to quantum computing
- May 2020Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Dec 2024A particle physics course for high-school students
- 268
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
- 269
Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond
Hacker News threads
- 270
One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Nov 2017New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Oct 2018What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- May 2023Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
- 271
Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs
- Sep 2020Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2024A new type of neural network is more interpretable
- Aug 2024Fun times with energy-based models
- Feb 2025Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
- 272
Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
- Sep 2023Chinchilla’s Death
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Aug 2024IsoFLOP curves of large language models are flat
- Jan 2025FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 273
On the reality of the quantum state
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2011The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically
- Nov 2011Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Nov 2011Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Nov 2011The insanely weird quantum wave function might be "real" after all
- Apr 2014Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time
- Oct 2016How Schrödinger’s Cat Became Such a Violent Fable
- Jan 2018The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
- 274
Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
- Feb 2020Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models, Use Interpretable Models [pdf]
- Apr 2020Ode to J
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Jun 2022Shapash – Python library to make machine learning interpretable
- Apr 2024'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
- 275
Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0
- Dec 2020Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's Cryptographic Protocol
- Jan 2021Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram’s MTProto 2.0
- Jan 2021Telegram publishes users' locations online
- Jan 2021WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
- Jan 2021Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
- Oct 2022Signal is secure, as proven by hackers
- Apr 2023WhatsApp announces key transparency being added to WhatsApp
- Aug 2024Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
- Aug 2024Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
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