Hacker Papers
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Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
- Jun 2021Mesh: Compacting Memory Managementfor C/C++ Applications
- Nov 2021Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
- May 2019For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
- May 2019A new core playlist for VLC 4
- May 2021The compiler will optimize that away
- Jul 2023Vale's First Prototype for Immutable Region Borrowing
- Jan 2025Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer (2017)
- 277
Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Mar 2017In search of a simple consensus algorithm
- Mar 2017Paxos in 25 Lines
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- Jan 2025Did we miss P In CAP? Partial Progress Conjecture under Asynchrony
- Aug 2026TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
- 278
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
- 279
Let's Verify Step by Step
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Jun 2023OpenAI: How to Train Reasoning in LLMs
- Aug 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Nov 2023Yann LeCun: Ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
- Nov 2023$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
- Aug 2024The Threat to OpenAI
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Sep 2026Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
- 280
The Free Will Theorem
Hacker News threads
- 281
FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
Hacker News threads
- May 2024FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms (2021)
- May 2021FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
- May 2021FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing
- May 2021An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
- 282
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (full version)
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Quantum mechanics is undecidable ()
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Jun 2016Physicists discover an infinite number of quantum speed limits
- Nov 2023How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Mar 2025'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
- 283
Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
- Oct 2017Show HN: Implementation of Poincaré Embeddings(Facebook Research) in Numpy
- Aug 2019Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space
- Aug 2019Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
- Feb 2021Illuminating hyperbolic geometry (2015) [video]
- Apr 2024Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)
- 284
Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Show Your Work: Scratchpads For Intermediate Computation With Language Models
- Feb 2022AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Mar 2023ChatGPT has trouble giving an answer before explaining its reasoning
- Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- 285
Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
- May 2018Grid-Cell Like Deep Layers in Navigation AI
- Feb 2019The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
- Apr 2022Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- 286
Basic Category Theory
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Basic Category Theory
- Jan 2017[1612.09375] Basic Category Theory [pdf]
- Jan 2017Basic Category Theory (textbook)
- Aug 2019Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)
- Aug 2020Graphical Linear Algebra
- Oct 2022Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory [pdf]
- Apr 2026Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
- 287
Real numbers, data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019Data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
- Oct 2021At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies, Secret Payment
- Jan 2022How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Apr 2023Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
- 288
Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)
- Jul 2018Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
- Sep 2019A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
- Oct 2020AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
- Sep 2024Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
- Mar 2025The cultural divide between mathematics and AI
- 289
On the design of text editors
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024On the design of text editors (2020)
- Mar 2022On the Design of Text Editors
- Dec 2020On the Design of Text Editors
- Mar 2022Apple Mac Studio
- Jul 2023Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
- Apr 2024Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
- Oct 2025Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
- 290
Metamath Zero: The Cartesian Theorem Prover
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
- Nov 2020Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
- Feb 2021Translating My Z3 Tutorial to Coq
- Mar 2023
- Feb 2024Is something bugging you?
- 291
Apparent evidence for Hawking points in the CMB Sky
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2018Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky
- Aug 2018Possible evidence of black holes from a different universe
- Jan 2019An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
- Oct 2020An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
- Aug 2022We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
- 292
Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2013Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
- Mar 2016Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time (2001)
- Feb 2008Smoothed Analysis: Why The Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time.
- Jan 2011The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
- Jun 2016Linear Programming: How Does It Work?
- Jun 2022The Simplex Solution: Why it works so well
- Nov 2024Suits, money laundering, and linear programming
- 293
Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithms can Inform Understanding and Reduce the Spread of Misinformation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Algorithms to Understand and Reduce Misinformation
- Oct 2022Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithm-Powered Misinfo Annotations
- Nov 2022White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note
- Feb 2023The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research from Elon Musk
- Feb 2024Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)
- Jan 2025Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
- 294
Mixed Precision Training
Hacker News threads
- 295
Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Sep 2020Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess with AlphaZero
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Dec 2020Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
- Aug 2021Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Jan 2024I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
- 296
Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Jun 2021DeDLOC – Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Dec 2023Is there a SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?
- Jan 2024Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Crowdsourced AI Training?
- 297
Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2016Visualizing and understanding recurrent networks
- Jun 2015Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
- Jul 2017Interpreting neurons in an LSTM network
- Jul 2019Show HN: Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning
- Jan 2021Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”
- Feb 2024Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
- 298
Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
- Sep 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
- Dec 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values [pdf]
- Dec 2019Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
- Aug 2020Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
- Jun 2022Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)
- Oct 2026Collatz Conjecture
- 299
Leveraging Secondary Storage to Simulate Deep 54-qubit Sycamore Circuits
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Leveraging secondary storage to simulate deep 54-qubit sycamore sircuits
- Oct 2019IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy
- Dec 2020Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
- Jul 2021Strong quantum computational advantage using a superconducting quantum processor
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
- 300
The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications
- May 2010Ask HN: Publish in peer-review journal without affiliation?
- Jan 2015ArXiv Hits 1M Submissions
- Feb 2019Beyond Einstein: Physicists find surprising connections in the cosmos
- Mar 2026ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell
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