Hacker Papers

1. 251
   

   Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks

   Michael Schwarz et al. · 2017

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   • Mar 2017Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks
   • Mar 2017Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks
   • Mar 2017Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest
   • Mar 2017CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines
   • May 2018Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing
   • Jun 2022Hertzbleed Attack

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2. 252
   

   Predictive Inequity in Object Detection

   Benjamin Wilson et al. · 2019

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   • Mar 2019Predictive Inequity in Object Detection
   • Mar 2019Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
   • Mar 2019Self-driving cars may be more likely to hit you if you have dark skin
   • Apr 2019MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
   • Aug 2019How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead

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3. 253
   

   Deep Learning and the Information Bottleneck Principle

   Naftali Tishby, Noga Zaslavsky · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2016Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
   • Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
   • Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
   • May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
   • Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

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4. 254
   

   A Tour of Reinforcement Learning: The View from Continuous Control

   Benjamin Recht · 2018

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   • Jul 2018Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
   • Jul 2018An Introduction to Mathematical Optimal Control Theory [pdf]
   • Feb 2019Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]
   • Jan 2021Algorithms for Decision Making

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5. 255
   

   Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization

   Taesung Park et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2019Nvidia AI turns sketches into photorealistic landscapes in seconds
   • Mar 2019Nvidia’s GauGAN Turns Doodles into Stunning, Photorealistic Landscapes
   • Feb 2020Understanding GauGAN Part 1
   • Jun 2021Nvidia Canvas

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6. 256
   

   Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset the Penultimate Backpropagator

   Fei Wang et al. · 2018

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   • Feb 2020Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
   • May 2018Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
   • Aug 2019Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset, Penultimate Backpropagator
   • Nov 2018Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf]
   • Feb 2019What Is Differentiable Programming?
   • Feb 2019What Is Differentiable Programming?
   • Feb 2021Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

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7. 257
   

   A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks

   Zonghan Wu et al. · 2019

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   • Jan 2019A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks (2019)
   • Jan 2019Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications
   • Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
   • Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
   • May 2022Beyond message passing: A physics-inspired paradigm for graph neural networks

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8. 258
   

   Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle

   Tim Menzies et al. · 2016

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   • Sep 2017Revisiting Cost-To-Fix of Defects Throughout the Lifecycle
   • Apr 2019Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? [pdf]
   • Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
   • Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
   • Jul 2021The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist
   • Feb 2025Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

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9. 259
   

   Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data

   H. Brendan McMahan et al. · 2016

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   • May 2017Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data
   • Apr 2017Machine learning without centralized training data
   • Apr 2017Machine learning without centralized training data
   • Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
   • Apr 2023Thumb-Key: a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs

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10. 260
    

    Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition

    W. Xiong et al. · 2016

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    • Oct 2016Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition
    • Oct 2016Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
    • Oct 2016Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
    • Aug 2017Conversational Speech Recognition System [pdf]
    • Oct 2020AI outperforms humans in speech recognition

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11. 261
    

    Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding

    Peyman Afshani et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2019Lower bounds for the cost of multiplication via network coding
    • Mar 2019Integer multiplication in time O(n log n) [pdf]
    • Apr 2019Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
    • Jul 2020Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
    • Jul 2020Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)

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12. 262
    

    A Relatively Small Turing Machine Whose Behavior Is Independent of Set Theory

    Adam Yedidia, Scott Aaronson · 2016

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    • Jul 2023The Undecidability of BB(748): Understanding Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems [pdf]
    • May 2025What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
    • May 2025What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
    • Jun 2025BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

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13. 263
    

    Users prefer Guetzli JPEG over same-sized libjpeg

    Jyrki Alakuijala et al. · 2017

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    • Mar 2017Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
    • Mar 2017Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
    • May 2017Compressing Images Using Google’s Guetzli
    • May 2018Subscription Hell

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14. 264
    

    Weight Agnostic Neural Networks

    Adam Gaier, David Ha · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2022Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
    • Oct 2022The AI Scaling Hypothesis
    • Oct 2022The AI Scaling Hypothesis
    • Nov 2025Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition (2023)

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15. 265
    

    Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs

    Keno Fischer, Elliot Saba · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2018Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs
    • Oct 2018Compiling Julia to TPUs [pdf]
    • Oct 2018Automatic Compilation of Julia Programs and Generic ML Models to Cloud TPUs
    • Jan 2019High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections
    • Feb 2019Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
    • Feb 2019Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN
    • Jul 2019A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing

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16. 266
    

    Artistic style transfer for videos

    Manuel Ruder et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2016Artistic Style Transfer for Video
    • Jul 2016Artistic style transfer for videos
    • May 2016Artistic style transfer for videos [video]
    • May 2016Artistic style transfer for videos
    • Jun 2016DeepArt.io introduces style transfer for videos
    • Jul 2016Prisma: neural-style instagram filters

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17. 267
    

    Learning to Search Better Than Your Teacher

    Kai-Wei Chang et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2016Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
    • Mar 2016FlappyBird hack using Deep Q-Learning
    • May 2016SyntaxNet: Neural Models of Syntax
    • Jun 2016Intro to Hidden Markov Models (2010) [pdf]

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18. 268
    

    Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

    Shaoqing Ren et al. · 2015

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    • Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
    • Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
    • Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
    • Nov 2017Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice

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19. 269
    

    Document Embedding with Paragraph Vectors

    Andrew M. Dai et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
    • Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
    • Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
    • Nov 2025Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings

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20. 270
    

    Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance

    Davide Fucci et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2019Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
    • Jul 2019What I Want from a Type System (2016)
    • Mar 2020Ask HN: What benefits can I provide to improve employee’s sleeping habits?
    • Oct 2022I’m taking some time away from Comma

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21. 271
    

    Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/'Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid

    Andreas M. Hein et al. · 2017

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    • 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

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22. 272
    

    Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact

    Massimo Bartoletti et al. · 2017

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    • Jun 2017Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact
    • Jun 2017Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
    • Aug 2017Ethereum Scam Database
    • Oct 2017The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything

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23. 273
    

    Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web

    Gabriel Emile Hine et al. · 2016

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    • Oct 2016A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
    • Oct 2016Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effect on the Web
    • Oct 2016A Longitudinal Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum
    • Jan 2017An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in 4chan /b/ (2011) [pdf]
    • Jun 2017A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]
    • Jul 2022Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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24. 274
    

    A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

    Adam Santoro et al. · 2017

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    • Jun 2017Relational Reasoning with Neural Networks
    • Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2023DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

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25. 275
    

    Improved Techniques for Training GANs

    Tim Salimans et al. · 2016

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    • Jun 2016Improved Techniques for Training GANs – OpenAI's first paper
    • Jun 2016Generative Models
    • Aug 2016OpenAI Team Update
    • Jan 2017Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning

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