Hacker Papers

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   Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go

   Christopher Clark, Amos Storkey · 2014

   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]

   arXiv ↗
2. 27
   

   Life Before Earth

   Alexei A. Sharov, Richard Gordon · 2013

   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?

   arXiv ↗
3. 28
   

   Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond

   Mahmoud Abo Khamis et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2015Architecture of a Database System
   • Oct 2015SpaceCurve: A Unique and Fast Geospatial Database
   • Dec 2019Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
   • Jan 2021Ordered Key-Value Stores
   • Jul 2022Why Hypergraphs? (2013)

   arXiv ↗
4. 29
   

   The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems

   Marcus Hutter · 2002

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2019The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
   • Aug 2022The Fastest And Shortest Algorithm For All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
   • Jan 2017Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
   • Feb 2017From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)
   • Jun 2019Galactic Algorithms (2010)
   • May 2021The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (2002)

   arXiv ↗
5. 30
   

   Category theory for scientists (Old version)

   David I. Spivak · 2013

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2019Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]
   • May 2013Category theory for scientists
   • Mar 2025Category theory for scientists (Old version)
   • Jul 2013Monads Made Difficult
   • Nov 2014A Categorical Manifesto (1991) [pdf]
   • Dec 2014Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
   • Feb 2021Ask HN: What mathematical background do I need to understand category theory?

   arXiv ↗
6. 31
   

   Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time

   Daniel A. Spielman, Shang-Hua Teng · 2001

   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

   arXiv ↗
7. 32
   

   Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time

   Sean M. Carroll, Jennifer Chen · 2004

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2016LHCb unveils new particles
   • Apr 2018The illusion of time
   • Jul 2018The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics
   • May 2021Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia

   arXiv ↗
8. 33
   

   Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits

   Stephane Beauregard · 2002

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2017Getting the World Quantum Ready
   • Jul 2022Shor, I’ll do it (2007)
   • Mar 2024Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography
   • Apr 2025Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit sup quantum computer

   arXiv ↗
9. 34
   

   Sloane's Gap. Mathematical and Social Factors Explain the Distribution of Numbers in the OEIS

   Nicolas Gauvrit et al. · 2011

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2013Sloane's Gap.
   • Oct 2013 The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
   • May 2016Pictures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
   • Sep 2018The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [pdf]
   • Oct 2019The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

   arXiv ↗
10. 35
    

    Stable image reconstruction using total variation minimization

    Deanna Needell, Rachel Ward · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2013The Rest of the Lenna Story
    • Apr 2016What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity
    • Feb 2019Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
    • Mar 2024Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

    arXiv ↗
11. 36
    

    Deep Fried Convnets

    Zichao Yang et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2015What's Wrong with Deep Learning?
    • Oct 2016Deep-Fried Data
    • Oct 2017The often-overlooked random forest kernel
    • Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

    arXiv ↗

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