Hacker Papers
- 426
Seven Trees in One
Hacker News threads
- 427
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
- 428
DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Hacker News threads
- 429
faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets
Hacker News threads
- May 2023AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defeating Disk Encryption
- May 2023FaulTPM: Exposing AMD FTPMs' Deepest Secrets
- Jul 2023Web Environment Integrity Explainer
- Jul 2023Web Environment Integrity API
- Aug 2023Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
- Nov 2023Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video]
- Jan 2026Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
- Jan 2026TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats to Watch Out For
- May 2026Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit
- May 2026Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
- 430
Mathematical Capabilities of ChatGPT
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Mathematical Capabilities of ChatGPT
- Mar 2023Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)
- Apr 2023Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)
- Apr 2023
- Jun 2023MIT Responds to “ Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using LLMs” [pdf]
- Oct 2023AI is replacing customer service jobs across the globe
- Oct 2023GPT-4 Understands
- Jun 2024Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
- 431
Dissociating language and thought in large language models
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Dissociating language and thought in large language models
- Jan 2023Dissociating language and thought in LLMs: a cognitive perspective
- Feb 2023Dissociating language, thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective
- Feb 2023I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
- Feb 2023Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models (2021)
- Apr 2023Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Jul 2023A Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- 432
Memory Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2014Memory Networks
- Feb 2015Facebook Memory Networks
- Mar 2015Memory Network [pdf]
- Mar 2015Facebook's Memory Networks Demo
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- May 2015Are There Deep Reasons Underlying the Pathologies of Deep Learning Algorithms? [pdf]
- Jul 2015FANN.js – Fast Artificial Neural Network Compiled with Emscripten
- Oct 2016Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory
- Oct 2025A History of Large Language Models
- 433
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
- 434
PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Pulse: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration
- Jun 2020Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Feb 2022Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
- May 2022Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
- Dec 2022Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature
- 435
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
- Jun 2017Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)
- Jul 2026Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Oct 2014The octave – history of a discovery
- Mar 2016Show HN: 19 Tone Equal Temperament Piano in Web Audio
- Sep 2016Music theory for nerds
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- May 2020Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company
- 436
Generalization in Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Generalization in Deep Learning [pdf]
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Software 2.0
- Dec 2017Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
- Apr 2021Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
- Jun 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
- 437
The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Jun 2020Using machine learning to classify story arcs into six basic shapes
- Mar 2018The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Aug 2016Text Summarization with TensorFlow
- Oct 2018Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types
- Jan 2019At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)
- Aug 2020The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters
- Nov 2023Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots
- 438
Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2014Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
- May 2015Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript
- Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
- Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
- Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
- Sep 2015AI Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
- Nov 2015Watch an AI bot play Go [video]
- 439
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
- 440
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?
- 441
TinyLFU: A Highly Efficient Cache Admission Policy
Hacker News threads
- 442
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)
- 443
Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2019Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
- Jul 2019BERT's success due to 'spurious statistical cues'
- Jul 2019Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
- Jul 2019A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
- Aug 2019AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
- Nov 2019Douglas Hofstadter: The Shallowness of Google Translate (2018)
- Dec 2023Ask HN: What is the current state of "logical" AI?
- May 2024How does AI impact my job as a programmer?
- 444
Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2022Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
- Oct 2022AI language models are struggling to “get” math
- Dec 2022Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
- Feb 2023To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- 445
Retrofitting Effect Handlers onto OCaml
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Retrofitting Effect Handlers onto OCaml
- May 2022Retrofitting Effect Handlers onto OCaml
- May 2021Multicore OCaml: April 2021
- May 2021Multicore OCaml: April 2021
- Jan 2022OCaml Multicore merged upstream
- Jun 2022Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed
- Dec 2022OCaml 5.0.0 release (including multicore and effects)
- Mar 2023Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust
- 446
Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation W NextScale Prediction
- Oct 2024Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Image Generation via Next-Resolution Prediction
- Oct 2024Faster convergence for diffusion models
- Mar 20254o Image Generation
- Apr 2025No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- Apr 2025No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- May 2025Diffusion models explained simply
- Aug 2025Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
- 447
The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)
- Jan 2018The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)
- Jan 2019The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes – Max Tegmark (1999)
- Mar 2012Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem explained
- Feb 2013The Brain is Not Computable
- Aug 2013Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors
- Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- 448
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in NLI (2019)
- Jul 2019Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
- Jul 2020Why GPT-3 Matters
- Aug 2021Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
- Oct 2021Dense Vectors: Capturing Meaning with Code
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- 449
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
- 450
AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining
Hacker News threads
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