Hacker Papers
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How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset (PDF)
- Oct 2008"Anonymous" Facebook Dataset Is Identified as Harvard Students
- Jan 2011$3 million machine learning prize
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Dec 2017Netflix tweet raises privacy questions
- Jul 2023California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
- Sep 2025Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
- Apr 2026It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Apr 2026Show HN: I'm tracking 197 known exposures of health data from UK Biobank
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Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing
Hacker News threads
- 28
Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling
Hacker News threads
- 29
The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications
- May 2010Ask HN: Publish in peer-review journal without affiliation?
- Jan 2015ArXiv Hits 1M Submissions
- Feb 2019Beyond Einstein: Physicists find surprising connections in the cosmos
- Mar 2026ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell
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Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance
Hacker News threads
- 31
Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
Hacker News threads
- 32
Power-law distributions in empirical data
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2009Power Laws in Chess Openings
- Mar 2011Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique
- Apr 2013Data Science of the Facebook World
- Jul 2016Anti Mediocracy Manifesto for Software Development
- Sep 2016Bitcoin Wealth Distribution
- Jun 2018Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (2010) [pdf]
- Aug 2023Power Laws Have More Power Than You Think
- Feb 2026Formalization and Inevitability of the Pareto Principle
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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]
- May 2008The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
- May 2024The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)
- Oct 2009Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments?
- Nov 2019Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
- Apr 2022Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
- Oct 2023The Wait Equation and AI Investment
- Jan 20254.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Jan 2026Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
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Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
- Apr 2023Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2015)
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Nov 2020A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
- Nov 2023Google is not a tech company
- Dec 2023LLM Visualization
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- May 2025When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
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Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2013Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer
- Dec 2017Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
- Sep 2019IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
- May 2021Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf]
- Jan 2024Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
- May 2024What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
- Jan 20262026 Predictions Scorecard
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Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Hacker News threads
- 37
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 38
Are Black Hole Starships Possible
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2009The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf]
- Oct 2016Are Black Hole Starships Possible (2009) [pdf]
- Mar 2023Are Black Hole Starships Possible?
- Jun 2011Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
- Dec 2011Sending a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
- Nov 2013Interstellar travel: Starship troupers
- Apr 2015First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
- Jul 2018Timeline of the far future
- Nov 2019New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole
- May 2022Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
- Nov 2025Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN
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The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2015The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
- Jul 2015Space and Time
- Apr 2019Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
- Jul 2019What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?
- Jan 2021Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
- May 2021When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma
- Jan 2023Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? (2020) [pdf]
- Jan 2024Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
- Nov 2025A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
- 40
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?
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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
- Mar 2012ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
- Aug 2015Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
- Jun 2017Why is the Internet so Slow?
- Jan 2018Network Latencies and Speed of Light
- Feb 2021The Dunant subsea cable
- Nov 2021Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly
- Aug 2024DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- Oct 2025A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
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Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2015Adam's method for stochastic optimization
- Jan 2017A New Batch of Deep Learning Startups to Watch for in 2017
- Oct 2017Variational Inference and Deep Learning: A New Synthesis [pdf]
- Feb 2023Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
- Jul 2023A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning
- May 2024xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
- Oct 2024Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
- Mar 2025The PhD Metagame: Don't try to reform science – not yet
- Oct 2025Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize
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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
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Decoding billions of integers per second through vectorization
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2012Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
- Sep 2012Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
- Jul 2013Fast integer compression in Java
- Feb 2017Multihash – self-describing hashes
- Sep 2017Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression
- Jun 2021Sorted Integer Compression
- Oct 202586 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)
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Rethinking set theory
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019Rethinking Set Theory (2012)
- Jun 2019Foundations of Mathematics (2015) [pdf]
- Dec 2019List of Statements Independent of ZFC
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Sep 2020Programming with Categories
- Nov 2022Topology, a Categorical Approach (2020)
- Sep 2025How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
- Oct 2025Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
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Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
- Apr 2015Adversarial examples – Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2014Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples [problem with deep networks]
- Mar 2015Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Apr 2015Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
- Jun 2015Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
- Nov 2016Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-Of-the-Art Face Recognition [pdf]
- Jul 2017Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform
- Jul 2017A Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- 47
Is the quantum state real? An extended review of $ψ$-ontology theorems
Hacker News threads
- 48
Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space (2013)
- Aug 2013Learning the Meaning of Words
- Sep 2013word2vec in yhat: Word vector similarity
- Jun 2015Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
- Dec 2015John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video]
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Sep 2017What every software engineer should know about search
- Oct 2023Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
- May 2025A visual exploration of vector embeddings
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An exact mapping between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
- Jul 2015An Exact Mapping Between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
- Dec 2014Deep Learning and Renormalization Group Thery
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Sep 2016Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
- Nov 2016Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Jun 2024How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
- May 2025Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
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Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Sep 2022Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Apr 2017Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (2013)
- Dec 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Oct 2016A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
- May 2025When was peak message in a bottle?
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