Hacker Papers

1. 626
   

   Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data

   M. Keith Chen et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019Racial disparities in voting wait times: evidence from smartphone data
   • Oct 2020Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote
   • May 2021Are we cut out for universal morality?
   • Jun 2023Why Britain Doesn’t Build

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2. 627
   

   In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors

   Roee Hendel et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2023In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors
   • Oct 2023LLMs playing chess are sensitive to how the position came to be
   • Nov 2024Task Vectors [in Vision and Language Models (VLM's)] Are Cross-Modal
   • Dec 2025Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

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3. 628
   

   A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation

   Joel Veness et al. · 2009

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2010The Single Sign On
   • Nov 2018The impossibility of intelligence explosion
   • Jan 2024Learning Universal Predictors

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4. 629
   

   Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions

   Nathan Halko et al. · 2009

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2014Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors
   • Feb 2017Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (2014)
   • Sep 2024Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices

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5. 630
   

   A note comprising a negative resolution of the Efficient Market Hypothesis

   Robert Viragh · 2010

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   • Jun 2018Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
   • Apr 2019P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
   • May 2020Kindly Stop Saying the Efficient Market Hypothesis Is Dead

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6. 631
   

   HOGWILD!: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent

   Feng Niu et al. · 2011

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2016Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
   • Mar 2018Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly
   • Aug 2021Tesla Project Dojo Overview

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7. 632
   

   Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence

   Alex Rutherford et al. · 2011

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2015After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance
   • Jan 2019Immigration in American Economic History (2017) [pdf]
   • Jul 2020The global fertility rate is falling

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8. 633
   

   Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor

   Erik Lucero et al. · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2015A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability
   • Jun 2019A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
   • Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

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9. 634
   

   A theory of regularity structures

   Martin Hairer · 2013

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2014Hearing Music in Noise, Martin Hairer Wins the Fields Medal
   • Sep 2020Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
   • Jul 2026"the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

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10. 635
    

    A Theory of Changes for Higher-Order Languages - Incrementalizing λ-Calculi by Static Differentiation

    Yufei Cai et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Derivatives of Regular Expressions (2007)
    • May 2019Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
    • Aug 2020What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?

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11. 636
    

    The Amplituhedron

    Nima Arkani-Hamed, Jaroslav Trnka · 2013

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    • Feb 2019Amplituhedron
    • Jun 2020Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
    • Oct 2022Nima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-Time [video]

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12. 637
    

    Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

    Diederik P Kingma, Max Welling · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2015A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks (1998)
    • Oct 2017Variational Inference and Deep Learning: A New Synthesis [pdf]
    • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

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13. 638
    

    Self-Locating Uncertainty and the Origin of Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics

    Charles T. Sebens, Sean M. Carroll · 2014

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    • Jun 2014Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
    • Oct 2018The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
    • Sep 2019Where Quantum Probability Comes From

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14. 639
    

    What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview

    Bent Flyvbjerg · 2014

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    • Sep 2019Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget
    • Mar 2023Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center
    • Mar 2024Why is it so hard to build an airport?

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15. 640
    

    Qualitatively characterizing neural network optimization problems

    Ian J. Goodfellow et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2015Machine Learning: Curse of Dimensionality
    • Aug 2016What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
    • May 2024Gradient descent visualization

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16. 641
    

    Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (short version)

    Toby Cubitt et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2021The World After Capital (2018)
    • Sep 2022John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017)
    • Oct 2023What Is the Point of Decidability

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17. 642
    

    Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields

    Yoichi Ochiai et al. · 2015

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    • Jul 2015A floating holographic plasma display that you can touch
    • May 2019UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
    • May 2024Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)

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18. 643
    

    ACDC: A Structured Efficient Linear Layer

    Marcin Moczulski et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2016Optical solutions to NP-Complete problems
    • Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
    • Jan 2019Dirty lenses (2016)

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19. 644
    

    Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions

    Chenhao Tan et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2017How to change someone's mind, according to science
    • Jul 2019The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions
    • Apr 2025Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments

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20. 645
    

    Automatic Differentiation Variational Inference

    Alp Kucukelbir et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2016Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages
    • Mar 2017An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (2003) [pdf]
    • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

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21. 646
    

    Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs

    Yu. A. Malkov, D. A. Yashunin · 2016

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    • Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
    • May 2023Abusing Vector Search for Texts, Maps, and Chess ♟
    • Sep 2024Understanding Pgvector's HNSW Index Storage in Postgres

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22. 647
    

    Density estimation using Real NVP

    Laurent Dinh et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
    • Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
    • Apr 2020Making an invertible function out of non-invertible parts

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23. 648
    

    Deep Learning with Differential Privacy

    Martín Abadi et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2016Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
    • Mar 2018The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (2014) [pdf]
    • Mar 2022Launch HN: Sarus (YC W22) – Work on sensitive data with differential privacy

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24. 649
    

    SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
    • Jul 2020Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
    • Nov 2024Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

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25. 650
    

    Quantum resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms

    Martin Roetteler et al. · 2017

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    • Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
    • Aug 2024Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
    • Mar 2026Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]

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