Hacker Papers
- 301
Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Nov 2023Struggles with the Continuum
- Jan 2024Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Jul 2026How real are real numbers? (2004)
- 302
Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2021Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
- Sep 2024Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
- May 2020Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second [pdf]
- Mar 2019An Intel Programmer Jumps over Wall: First Impressions of ARM SIMD Programming
- Jul 2019How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
- Oct 2021Word-Aligned Bloom Filters
- Mar 20241BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
- Aug 2025Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
- Sep 2026Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm
- 303
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
- Sep 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Jul 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Aug 2021Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?
- Jan 2022Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
- Apr 2022The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
- May 2022Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
- May 2023How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From The 80s Took Over Crypto
- 304
Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
- Oct 2018Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
- Oct 2018Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
- Apr 2019Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
- Jul 2019A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
- Feb 2020Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
- Oct 2020The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
- Jul 2021Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
- Dec 2021Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
- 305
Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
- Jul 2021Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions [pdf]
- Dec 2016Don’t assume that safety comes for free: a Swift case study
- May 2018Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
- Jun 2019Abusing the CPU's Adder Circuits
- Sep 2019Popcount CPU instruction
- Jun 2021The NSA Instruction (2019)
- Sep 2022Intel Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library
- 306
Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Modes and Neural Representations of the Hippocampal
- May 2022Relating transformers to neural representations of hippocampal formation
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Neural Representations of the Hippocampal Formation
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How to get back into AI?
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- Sep 2024Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- 307
InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016InfoGAN: Representation Learning by Generative Adversarial Nets
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Aug 2016OpenAI Team Update
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
- Apr 2017Unsupervised sentiment neuron
- Sep 2017PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
- 308
Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) as Much as Text
- Nov 2023Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
- Dec 2023Embeddings, Vectors, and Arithmetic
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
- Jun 2024CryptGPT: A Simple Approach to Privacy-Preserving LLMs Using Vigenere Cipher
- Jul 2024Vision language models are blind
- Jan 2025Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
- 309
Ologs: a categorical framework for knowledge representation
Hacker News threads
- 310
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2011Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
- Nov 2011Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol
- Nov 2012Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]
- Feb 2013Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins
- Apr 2013Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State
- Jan 2014Bitcoin 2.0 explained
- 311
Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 312
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 313
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
- Nov 2023The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Jan 2026The Code-Only Agent
- 314
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
- 315
Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay
- Jun 2019Bitcoin climbs to $10k
- Dec 2019Erlay: A performance improvement to the Bitcoin network
- Mar 2020Erlay: Bandwidth-efficient Bitcoin transaction relay protocol
- Aug 2020Network Coding in P2P Networks
- Dec 2020Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
- Aug 2024A Technical Look at BitMessage: Learning From a Dead Project
- 316
Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs
- Jun 2020An In-Depth Experience Report with All Rust CVEs
- Jun 2020Memory-safety challenge considered solved? An empirical study of Rust CVEs
- Jun 2020Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
- Jul 2020Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
- Aug 2020Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
- Feb 2021Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
- Jan 2023Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
- Jul 2024Tell HN: When Firefox jumps the shark, the call to action is Ladybird
- 317
GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers
Hacker News threads
- May 2023GPTQ Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-Trained Transformers
- Mar 2023LLaMA Text-Generation-Webui
- Mar 2023Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
- Mar 2023Alpaca- An Instruct Tuned Llama 7B. Responses on par with txt-DaVinci-3. Demo up
- Mar 2023LLaMa running at 5 tokens/second on a Pixel 6
- Mar 2023Apple: Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- May 2023The tiny corp raised $5.1M
- Dec 2023Do large language models need all those layers?
- 318
s1: Simple test-time scaling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Test-time scaling new approach: extra test-time compute improves LLM reasoning
- Feb 2025s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
- Feb 2025S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
- Feb 2025Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
- Feb 2025LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
- Mar 2025QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
- Apr 2026TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
- Jul 2026Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
- 319
Introducing Physical Warp Drives
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Dec 2025Introducing Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
- Mar 2021Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
- Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
- May 2021Physical Warp Drives
- Dec 2021Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
- Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Jul 2024New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021)
- 320
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Impolite LLM prompts consistently outperform polite ones
- Oct 2025Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026The User Is Visibly Frustrated
- Jun 2026Claude Fable 5
- Jul 2026I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it
- Jul 2026Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
- Aug 2026Sol Loves to Cheat
- Aug 2026The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
- Oct 2026Anthropic bans users from abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
- 321
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction
- May 2026Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
- Jul 2024Explainability is not a game
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Oct 2026IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
- 322
QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Feb 2024How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Mar 2025HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
- Aug 2025Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
- Aug 2025The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
- Oct 2025HTTP3 Explained
- 323
Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
- Dec 2024Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
- Aug 2024Google proves Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing is possible
- Sep 2024Qubit Transistors Reach Error Correction Benchmark
- Nov 2024IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100x100 performance challenge
- Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough
- Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Feb 2025Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]
- Aug 2025OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography
- 324
Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
- Sep 2024Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognitio
- Sep 2024A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
- Dec 2024Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
- Apr 2025I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]
- Dec 2025Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
- Dec 2025Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
- Apr 2026Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds
- Apr 2026Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds
- Sep 2026216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
- Sep 2026LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
- 325
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
- Dec 2016Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Nov 2017Closing the Simulation-to-Reality Gap for Deep Robotic Learning
- May 2020Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
- Jan 2024Barcoding Bees (2020)
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