Hacker Papers

1. 251
   

   SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector

   Wei Liu et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2016State of the Art Dnn. Single Shot MultiBox Detector
   • Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
   • Oct 2019Video Architecture Search
   • Feb 2020Creator of YOLO and SSD algorithm stopped CV research due to ethical concerns

   arXiv ↗
2. 252
   

   Motion Sensor-based Privacy Attack on Smartphones

   S Abhishek Anand et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2021Motion Sensor-Based Privacy Attack on Smartphones
   • Sep 2020Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads
   • Nov 2021iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
   • Nov 2022People Still Think Their Smart Speakers Are Eavesdropping on Conversations

   arXiv ↗
3. 253
   

   Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data

   M. Keith Chen et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019Racial disparities in voting wait times: evidence from smartphone data
   • Oct 2020Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote
   • May 2021Are we cut out for universal morality?
   • Jun 2023Why Britain Doesn’t Build

   arXiv ↗
4. 254
   

   Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (short version)

   Toby Cubitt et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2021The World After Capital (2018)
   • Sep 2022John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017)
   • Oct 2023What Is the Point of Decidability

   arXiv ↗
5. 255
   

   Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields

   Yoichi Ochiai et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2015A floating holographic plasma display that you can touch
   • May 2019UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
   • May 2024Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)

   arXiv ↗
6. 256
   

   ACDC: A Structured Efficient Linear Layer

   Marcin Moczulski et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2016Optical solutions to NP-Complete problems
   • Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
   • Jan 2019Dirty lenses (2016)

   arXiv ↗
7. 257
   

   Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions

   Chenhao Tan et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2017How to change someone's mind, according to science
   • Jul 2019The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions
   • Apr 2025Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments

   arXiv ↗
8. 258
   

   Automatic Differentiation Variational Inference

   Alp Kucukelbir et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2016Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages
   • Mar 2017An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (2003) [pdf]
   • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

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9. 259
   

   Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs

   Yu. A. Malkov, D. A. Yashunin · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
   • May 2023Abusing Vector Search for Texts, Maps, and Chess ♟
   • Sep 2024Understanding Pgvector's HNSW Index Storage in Postgres

   arXiv ↗
10. 260
    

    Density estimation using Real NVP

    Laurent Dinh et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
    • Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
    • Apr 2020Making an invertible function out of non-invertible parts

    arXiv ↗
11. 261
    

    Deep Learning with Differential Privacy

    Martín Abadi et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2016Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
    • Mar 2018The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (2014) [pdf]
    • Mar 2022Launch HN: Sarus (YC W22) – Work on sensitive data with differential privacy

    arXiv ↗
12. 262
    

    SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
    • Jul 2020Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
    • Nov 2024Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

    arXiv ↗
13. 263
    

    Quantum resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms

    Martin Roetteler et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
    • Aug 2024Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
    • Mar 2026Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]

    arXiv ↗
14. 264
    

    Recurrent Relational Networks

    Rasmus Berg Palm et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
    • Jul 2023Code Interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week

    arXiv ↗
15. 265
    

    A Multi-Horizon Quantile Recurrent Forecaster

    Ruofeng Wen et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2019Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?
    • Jul 2021Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
    • Dec 2022Statistical vs. Deep Learning forecasting methods

    arXiv ↗
16. 266
    

    Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs

    Timur Garipov et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2023Knowledge Is a Region in Weight Space for Fine-Tuned Language Models
    • Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
    • Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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17. 267
    

    Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games

    Rachit Dubey et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2019Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test
    • May 2020Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
    • Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model

    arXiv ↗
18. 268
    

    MOSQUITO: Covert Ultrasonic Transmissions between Two Air-Gapped Computers using Speaker-to-Speaker Communication

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2019US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds
    • Apr 2023HN thread 35355540
    • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

    arXiv ↗
19. 269
    

    WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking

    Arjaldo Karaj et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2018Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking
    • Dec 2019A New Search Engine
    • Jul 2023Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

    arXiv ↗
20. 270
    

    ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture; increasing shape bias improves accuracy and robustness

    Robert Geirhos et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
    • Feb 2021What Inception Net Doesn't See
    • May 2024AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)

    arXiv ↗
21. 271
    

    Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems

    Maxim Naumov et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
    • Mar 2024Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
    • Mar 2025Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

    arXiv ↗
22. 272
    

    A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox

    Kok-Wei Bong et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2020Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
    • Dec 2021Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?
    • Jul 2024Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality

    arXiv ↗
23. 273
    

    Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

    Austin Hounsel et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
    • Dec 2025RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016)
    • Mar 2026Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

    arXiv ↗
24. 274
    

    Attention is not not Explanation

    Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
    • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
    • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

    arXiv ↗
25. 275
    

    KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning

    Tarin Clanuwat et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2019Machine Learning Can Help Unlock the World of Ancient Japan
    • Dec 2025The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition
    • Apr 2026Hokusai and Tesselations

    arXiv ↗

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