Hacker Papers

1. 576
   

   Large Language Models as Optimizers

   Chengrun Yang et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2023Large Language Models as Optimizers. +50% on Big Bench Hard
   • Sep 2023A New Age of Magic
   • Jan 2024Is the ChatGPT API Refusing to Summarize Academic Papers?
   • Oct 2026Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

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2. 577
   

   Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines - Revised

   Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever · 2015

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   • May 2015Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines
   • Jun 2015Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines
   • May 2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
   • May 2016Neural Turing Machines (2014)
   • Oct 2020Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf]

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3. 578
   

   Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems

   Carl Hewitt · 2010

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   • Oct 2014Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems [pdf]
   • Nov 2017Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
   • Aug 2018Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]
   • Feb 2023Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisors

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4. 579
   

   A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory

   Onur Mutlu et al. · 2020

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   • Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
   • Oct 2026A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
   • Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
   • Feb 2021Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power
   • Aug 2024Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
   • Aug 2026Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math

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5. 580
   

   An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

   A. Garrett Lisi · 2007

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2022An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
   • Feb 2008Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash
   • Aug 2016The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true
   • Jul 2018The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics

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6. 581
   

   The Proof of Innocence

   Dmitri Krioukov · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2012Physicist challenges a traffic case about running a red light. He Won [pdf]
   • Apr 2012[pdf] Proof of Innocence, or how a Physicist gets out of a traffic ticket.
   • Apr 2012Judge vs. Physics Professor: The Proof of Innocence
   • Apr 2012Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
   • Jul 2017Quirks of the arXiv
   • Oct 2023The Proof of Innocence

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7. 582
   

   The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light

   Marcel Urban et al. · 2013

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2013The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light
   • Mar 2013Possible explanation of speed of light
   • Mar 2013Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest
   • Sep 2015Why is light so fast?
   • Apr 2016Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster

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8. 583
   

   Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction

   Andrew Cropper, Sebastijan Dumančić · 2020

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   • Sep 2021Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction
   • May 2021Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction
   • Mar 2022Neurosymbolic Programming (2021) [pdf]
   • May 2023Prolog for Data Science
   • Aug 2026Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

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9. 584
   

   CASPaxos: Replicated State Machines without logs

   Denis Rystsov · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2018CASPaxos: Lightweight Replicated State Machines
   • Feb 2018CASPaxos: Replicated State Machines Without Logs
   • Nov 2018Writing Network Drivers in Go [pdf]
   • Jan 2020CASPaxos: Linearizable Databases Without Logs
   • Jan 2022Paxos

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10. 585
    

    NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

    Arash Vahdat, Jan Kautz · 2020

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    • Sep 2020NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
    • Sep 2020Channel Attention and Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SENet)
    • Jan 2021This Anime Does Not Exist
    • Jun 2025Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images

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11. 586
    

    Exploiting Similarities among Languages for Machine Translation

    Tomas Mikolov et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
    • Oct 2013Stanford researchers to open source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis
    • Jun 2015Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
    • Mar 2017Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages

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12. 587
    

    The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence

    Gary Marcus · 2020

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    • Feb 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
    • Jun 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
    • May 2022The Next Decade in AI (2020)
    • Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
    • Oct 2022What “game over” for the latest paradigm in AI might look like
    • Aug 2025GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

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13. 588
    

    Delta State Replicated Data Types

    Paulo Sérgio Almeida et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2021Delta State Replicated Data Types (2016)
    • Sep 2017Databases and Distributed Deadlocks: A FAQ
    • Apr 2022Locutus: A platform for building decentralized apps, from the creator of Freenet
    • Mar 2026An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

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14. 589
    

    Recent Advances in Neural Program Synthesis

    Neel Kant · 2018

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    • Feb 2018Recent Advances in Neural Program Synthesis
    • Sep 2018Ask HN: Is anyone working on ML based code/program generation?
    • Mar 2019Ask HN: Immortal software: how would you write it?
    • Jan 2020Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?

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15. 590
    

    Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?

    M. V. Berry et al. · 2011

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2011The most informative abstract ever (re: speeding neutrinos)
    • Dec 2016Nurturing Genius
    • Oct 2018State of the Art: Reproducibility in Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
    • Oct 2024The Event Horizon Telescope image might need a correction

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16. 591
    

    Time from quantum entanglement: an experimental illustration

    Ekaterina Moreva et al. · 2013

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    • Oct 2013Time from quantum entanglement: an experimental illustration
    • Feb 2015There exists a classical model of the photon after all
    • Aug 2017Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
    • May 2021An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump (2019)

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17. 592
    

    Spatial Transformer Networks

    Max Jaderberg et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2017Spatial Transformer Networks (2015)
    • Jun 2015Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
    • Apr 2016Deep3D: Automatic 2D-to-3D Video Conversion with CNNs
    • Apr 2017Have We Forgotten about Geometry in Computer Vision?

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18. 593
    

    Algebraic Databases

    Patrick Schultz et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2025Algebraic Databases [pdf]
    • May 2016Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
    • Aug 2021Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
    • Jan 2025Composable SQL

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19. 594
    

    PlaNet - Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks

    Tobias Weyand et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2016PlaNet – Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks
    • Mar 2017PlaNet – Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks
    • Nov 2016Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
    • May 2017Don't use deep learning when your data isn't that big
    • Nov 2019Her Amazon Purchases Are Real, the Reviews Are Fake

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20. 595
    

    Adversarial examples in the physical world

    Alexey Kurakin et al. · 2016

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    • Jul 2016Adversarial examples in the physical world
    • Sep 2019Adverserial Examples in the Physical World
    • Jul 2016Adversarial Examples in the Real World
    • Jul 2016Computer Vision and Adversarial Images
    • Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
    • Jul 2020Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy

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21. 596
    

    Deep Network Guided Proof Search

    Sarah Loos et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2017Deep Network Guided Proof Search
    • Aug 2017200 terabyte proof demonstrates the potential of brute force math
    • Oct 2020Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI
    • Nov 2022Good Old Fashioned AI is dead, long live New-Fangled AI

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22. 597
    

    Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Networks

    Ming-Yu Liu et al. · 2017

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    • Mar 2017Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Networks
    • Dec 2017AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here
    • Jan 2018Nicolas Cage DeepFake
    • Dec 2019Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552

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23. 598
    

    Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation

    Breck Yunits · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2021Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation (2017)
    • Sep 2019In 2027, at least 7 out of the top Tiobe languages will be Tree Languages
    • Jun 2021When it comes to Git history, less is more
    • Dec 2022Delimiter-First Code

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24. 599
    

    What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?

    Andrej Bauer · 2018

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    • Apr 2025What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?
    • Feb 2022Structurally-Typed Condition Handling
    • Sep 2025What is algebraic about algebraic effects?
    • May 2026Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

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25. 600
    

    The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons

    David Kipping · 2019

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    • Mar 2019Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
    • Jan 2023The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion (2019)
    • Aug 2019The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
    • Jun 2023Freeman Dyson: Gravitational Machines
    • Sep 2024Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy

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