Hacker Papers
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On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024The Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton (2010)
- Feb 2010The entropy force: a new direction for gravity
- Jul 2010Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton
- Jul 2010Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton
- Jul 2011Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?
- Apr 2013Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
- Apr 2013Physicist proposes new theory of gravity, arguig that gravity doesn't exist
- Dec 2016First test of new theory of gravity
- Feb 2019What every physicist should know about string theory
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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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Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
- Jan 2019Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- May 2014Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- Dec 2014Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
- Nov 2015Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Dec 2023Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013
- Aug 2026Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
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A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Jan 2018Proposal for Proquints
- Jul 2020Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Dec 2014Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku
- May 2015Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines
- Sep 2018How to Name a Baby (2013)
- Nov 2019Bitspeak converts hex strings to pronounceable words
- Feb 2020Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
- Sep 2020Readable Pointers
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A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016[Legg, Hutter] a Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (2007)
- Nov 2022A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Dec 2021Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- May 2023Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil
- Oct 2023"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
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Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 57
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Aug 2014A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Mar 2019A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
- Jun 2017When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing
- Oct 2021Consistent Hashing for Dummies
- Mar 2022S2: Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere
- May 2024Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)
- Sep 2026Saving another 100TB of RAM
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The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
- Feb 2011The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study [pdf]
- Jul 2013The Peter Principle
- Jul 2009Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations
- Nov 2010Google Engineering Management Mistakes
- Apr 2011Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
- Nov 2017Hotbed of Misinformation
- Dec 2022Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers
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Generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain - SmoothLife
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Generalization of Conway's “Game of Life” to a Continuous Domain
- Oct 2012Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
- May 2018Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy
- Jun 2021ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
- Nov 2022In Game of Life any buildable pattern can be constructed by colliding 15 gliders
- Jan 2024Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns
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Seven Trees in One
Hacker News threads
- 61
A Categorical Theory of Patches
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013)
- Feb 2021A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013)
- Feb 2017Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
- Dec 2017The GNUnet System
- Feb 2019Pijul for Git users
- Mar 2019Serverless collaborative editor using CRDT
- May 2019Git rebase in depth
- Jan 2020Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)
- Sep 2020Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches
- Nov 2020Pijul: Towards 1.0
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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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Twitter mood predicts the stock market
Hacker News threads
- May 2011Twitter mood predicts the stock market.
- Nov 2010Twitter mood predicts the stock market
- May 2011Twitter mood predicts the stock market
- Oct 2010Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market
- Nov 2010Can LinkedIn predict when companies are in trouble?
- Dec 2010Hedge fund to use Twitter to predict stock market
- Jul 2011MongoDB is the New MySQL
- Mar 2012What you could do if you were Google and had their databases
- May 2012Looking At The World Through Twitter Data
- Sep 2012Twitter is a tragic tale
- Mar 2014Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"?
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Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms (2012)
- May 2015PRACTICAL BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS [pdf]
- Jul 2012Machine learning for the impatient: algorithms tuning algorithms
- Nov 2012How deep learning on GPUs wins datamining contest without feature engineering
- Jan 2013Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
- Nov 2013Machine learning is easier than it looks
- Dec 2013Hyperopt: Optimize your machine learning parameters automagically
- Jun 2015Whetlab.com: API for Baysian optimization of hyperparameters
- Jan 2018Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization
- Jul 2018Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
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The Loss Surfaces of Multilayer Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019The Loss Surfaces of Multilayer Networks
- Mar 2015Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning vs. Pattern Recognition
- Jun 2015What's Wrong with Deep Learning?
- Aug 2015Machine Learning: Curse of Dimensionality
- Feb 2016AI is transforming Google search – the rest of the web is next
- Aug 2016What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
- May 2017Breaking Glass in Infinite Dimensions
- Dec 2017An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
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Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression rate of arithmetic coding
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Asymmetric numeral systems (2014)
- May 2016Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy encoding (2013)
- Jan 2023Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding and Huffman coding 2014 [pdf]
- Jul 2016Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
- Jul 2016Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
- Aug 2016Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
- Apr 2017JPEG Huffman Coding Tutorial
- Aug 2017Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept
- Aug 2017Understanding Asymmetric Numeral Systems
- May 2022Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea
- Mar 2024The Montreal problem: Why programming languages need a style czar
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The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Precautionary Principle (As Applied to GMOs) [Taleb et al]
- Nov 2014The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- Jul 2015The Mathiness of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Nov 2016We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
- Mar 2018Why I’m quitting GMO research
- Apr 2018EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
- Dec 2018Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
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Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2014Building a deeper understanding of images
- Mar 2015Show HN: Anime character recognizer
- Apr 2015Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
- Jul 2015Deep learning
- Mar 2016Turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks
- Apr 2016Show HN: Open source colorizing grayscale images with NN
- Jun 2021Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
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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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Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
Hacker News threads
- May 2012Google research (with Jeff Dean): Face recognition with unsupervised learning
- Jun 2012In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
- Jun 2012Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face
- Aug 2013The Face Scan Arrives
- Sep 2013Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats
- Dec 2013Google is the new Bell Labs
- Aug 2015M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
- Mar 2023Ask HN: I'm feeling awe, unsettled and disoriented by GPT-4. How about you?
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A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes, Incompleteness and Fixed Points
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes - Noson S. Yanofsky [2003]
- May 2026Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes (2003)
- Nov 2015The Hardest Logic Puzzle: A step-by-step guide to true, false, and random
- Apr 2020John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
- May 2020Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt
- Jul 2021How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
- Jun 2023Basics of Proofs [pdf]
- Sep 2023Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
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Ologs: a categorical framework for knowledge representation
Hacker News threads
- 73
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2011Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
- Nov 2011Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol
- Nov 2012Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]
- Feb 2013Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins
- Apr 2013Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State
- Jan 2014Bitcoin 2.0 explained
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Cool horizons for entangled black holes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Cool horizons for entangled black holes (2013)
- Jul 2013Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
- Dec 2013You can’t get entangled without a wormhole
- Jul 2015Ask HN: Is physics moving forward?
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Nov 2018Black Holes, Quantum Systems, Superconductors and Planck’s Constant Are Related
- Nov 2022What is spacetime made of?
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Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
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