Hacker Papers
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Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
- May 2020SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
- Dec 2022Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
- Oct 2024A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Jan 2025IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Jun 2025JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)
- Jun 2022Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
- Jun 2022Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
- Jun 2022Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase and A15 Based IP
- Dec 2022Sorting with SIMD
- Jan 2023Efficient and performance-portable vector software
- Mar 2024JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
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Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Apr 2023GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
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Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Mar 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Mar 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Jun 2022Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
- Jun 2022Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
- Feb 2023Why Sat Is Hard
- Mar 2023Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days?
- Jun 2024Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
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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
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Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)
- May 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text
- Nov 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text [pdf]
- Jul 2020An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
- Jul 2020CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
- Aug 2020Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Mar 2026A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control
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Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2026Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Models
- Mar 2023Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Models
- Dec 2022Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Jan 2023Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
- Feb 2023Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
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Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
Hacker News threads
- 34
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)
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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
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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
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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?
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Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin – the profile of a genius
- Feb 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Oct 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Feb 2024Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
- Apr 2024New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Apr 2026Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator
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Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Will we run out of data to train LLMs?
- Nov 2022We might run out of language data to train ML models soon [pdf]
- Dec 2022An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning
- Dec 2022Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
- Dec 2023Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
- Sep 2025Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
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Learned Indexes for a Google-scale Disk-based Database
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024Learned Indexes for a Google-Scale Disk-Based Database
- Jan 2021PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
- Feb 2022Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jun 2025The probability of a hash collision (2022)
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An Overview on IEEE 802.11bf: WLAN Sensing
Hacker News threads
- 42
It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
- Oct 2022It's time to replace TCP in the Datacenter
- Nov 2022Moving past TCP in the data center, part 2
- Feb 2023Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers?
- May 2023Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
- Oct 2023HN thread 38049303
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Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
- 44
Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle
Hacker News threads
- 45
Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs
Hacker News threads
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