Hacker Papers
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Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015New, more powerful Google Translate app
- Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Dec 2020AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
- Jun 2023What Are Embeddings?
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Apr 2025The Leaderboard Illusion
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Circuit for Shor's algorithm using 2n+3 qubits
Hacker News threads
- 53
Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Ask HN: What would it take to move the Earth out of its orbit?
- Mar 2021The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere
- Aug 2021Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
- Jan 2023NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success
- Mar 2025'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
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Category theory for scientists (Old version)
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?
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Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms (2001)
- Oct 2019Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
- Aug 2010Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
- Mar 2013Pilot waves: oil droplets model quantum behavior
- Sep 2014Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Feb 2018You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
- Sep 2021Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
- Oct 2021Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
- Dec 2023Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)
- Mar 2025Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
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Computational capacity of the universe
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007Computational capacity of the universe
- Feb 2015Computational capacity of the universe (2001)
- Jul 2010Computational capacity of the universe
- Aug 2007Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
- Mar 2010A Turing Machine in the Classic Style
- Mar 2016How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
- Oct 2023BB(3, 3) is Hard
- Oct 2023Find the date of your birthday in the number pi
- 57
Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 58
Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015Extending “Let It Go” with recurrent neural network
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Apr 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- May 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- Apr 2017Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
- Aug 2020An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
- Jan 2023Realistic Computer-Generated Handwriting
- Feb 2025Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs
- 59
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
- 60
DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Hacker News threads
- 61
Quantum Picturalism
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015The Wholeness of Quantum Reality: An Interview with Physicist Basil Hiley
- Jun 2018A brief introduction to quantum computing
- May 2020Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Dec 2024A particle physics course for high-school students
- 62
Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor
Hacker News threads
- 63
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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Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
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
- 65
Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?
Hacker News threads
- 66
Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Generative Adversarial Networks
- Nov 2016Generative Adversarial Nets [pdf]
- Jun 2014Does Deep Learning Have Deep Flaws?
- Jan 2017Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Jan 2018AI System Sorts News Articles by Whether or Not They Contain Actual Information
- Jun 2020AI vs. AI
- May 2022Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
- Nov 2023SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model
- Sep 2024Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
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Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Deep learning in neural networks: An overview
- Dec 2023Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
- Dec 2014Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Recommended Readings
- Dec 2014Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)
- Sep 2016Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
- Jan 2017AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future
- Jul 2018Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s
- Jun 2019Ask HN: Please suggest review papers in CS topics
- Nov 2023Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
- Sep 2024OpenAI to become for-profit company
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Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions
Hacker News threads
- 69
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
- 70
No need for conspiracy: Self-organized cartel formation in a modified trust game
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2012Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists
- Mar 2014How are cold-calling ceasefires illegal?
- Feb 2015The Billion Dollar Startup Club
- Jul 2015Airbnb, My $1B Lesson
- Jan 2016Economics Simulation
- Aug 2017Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
- Mar 2021U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes
- Aug 2024San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents
- 71
Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
- Oct 2018Neuroscientist found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
- Dec 2021Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed
- Feb 2022Google Search Is Dying
- Nov 2022Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
- May 2023Reddit comments and submissions from 2005-06 to 2022-12 collected by Pushshift
- Dec 2023At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
- Aug 2024Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
- 72
Quantum Time Crystals
Hacker News threads
- 73
Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science'
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2015Review of Stephen Wolfram’s Book a New Kind of Science by Scott Aaronson (2002)
- Jun 2011Alpha Geek
- Aug 2013Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
- Feb 2016Black Hole Tech?
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Mar 2023Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not? Well, It’s Complicated
- Dec 2023Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics
- Jul 2024An approach to the fundamental theory of physics
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Clustering by compression
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2018Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]
- Dec 2018The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)
- May 2021Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications
- Jul 2023Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification
- Jul 2024Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
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The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2013The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
- Apr 2015Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
- Apr 2016Interview with Scott Aaronson
- Sep 2017Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"
- Jul 2019Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (2017)
- Mar 2023Not by AI
- Mar 2023A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Jul 2024A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications
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