Hacker Papers
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Real Differences between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
- Oct 2018Real differences between ot and crdt for co-editors
- Oct 2018Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
- May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Sep 2021The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
- Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
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An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Oct 2021An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2026An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (2018)
- Oct 2018Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
- Nov 2018Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
- Jun 2019A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
- Dec 2020Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2022Probabilistic Models of Cognition
- Aug 2023A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
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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
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Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
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Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- May 2019Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- Nov 2024Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials (2018) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
- Jul 2019Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
- May 2022Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
- Jul 2022Notation for Differentiation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2025Multiplicative Infinitesimals
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The Argument against Quantum Computers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]
- Oct 2019Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
- Dec 2019Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
- Oct 2021Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
- Feb 2023Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
- Dec 2024The Google Willow Thing
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
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Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
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Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type [a Password,] Acoustic Eavesdropping in VOIP
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type—Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP [pdf]
- Oct 2016Don't Skype and Type Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
- Sep 2018How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
- Aug 2019Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
- Apr 2020When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
- Aug 2022Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio
- Dec 2023Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
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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)
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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining
Hacker News threads
- 36
OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Extended Version)
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
- Apr 2020OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jun 2021Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking
- May 2026Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
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Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014
Hacker News threads
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A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
- Jan 2021Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
- Nov 2022Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software
- Jun 2023Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
- Feb 2024A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
- Jun 2026Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts
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Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
- Jun 2020How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
- Jun 2020Much More Efficient Self-Play Learning in Go
- Jun 2020Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia
- Nov 2022Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
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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
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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
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Beating the World's Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- 43
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?
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RAISR: Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution
Hacker News threads
- 45
Algorand
Hacker News threads
- 46
TerpreT: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Program Induction
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016TerpreT: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Program Induction by MSR
- Jan 2018Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (2016)
- Sep 2021The Great AI Reckoning
- Jun 2022Differentiable Finite State Machines
- May 2024Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad
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Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Surveying the Attitude of Physicists Concerning Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
- Apr 2017Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Feb 2019In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
- Feb 2025When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on quantum theory
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A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Hacker News threads
- 49
Resource Polymorphism
Hacker News threads
- 50
Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators
Hacker News threads
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