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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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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Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
- May 2015Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
- Oct 2012Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
- Dec 2012Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
- Apr 2013Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation
- Feb 2014Is the Universe a Simulation?
- Jul 2014The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
- Jun 2015Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Government
- Dec 2015Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science
- Jul 2021Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second
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Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2012Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors [pdf]
- Dec 2012Why use SVM
- Feb 2014Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
- May 2014What does a neural network actually do?
- Oct 2015Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Nov 2016Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
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A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2013Poll on nature of reality
- Nov 2016A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics (2013)
- Nov 2014Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
- Sep 2015Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
- Oct 2015Quantum effects in relatively large systems
- Oct 2017The Scientific Case for P≠NP
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Jun 2020What is a photon? (2017)
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
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Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Jun 2014Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
- Jul 2014Inside Google Brain
- Feb 2016Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud
- Jun 2016Intro to Hidden Markov Models (2010) [pdf]
- Mar 2017ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
- 69
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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Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 71
Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2011Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
- Sep 2011Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
- Sep 2011Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector
- Sep 2011Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
- Sep 2011CERN press release regarding neutrino experiment
- Sep 2011CERN press release regarding neutrino experiment
- Sep 2011CERN press release regarding neutrino experiment
- Oct 2011Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity
- Nov 2011Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
- Jun 2012CERN Confirms Neutrinos Not Faster Than Light
- Jul 2012Higgs Boson: Physicists See Best Proof Yet of 'The God Particle'
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Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2012Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous marketplace
- Aug 2012Paper on the Economic Activities of the Silk Road
- Sep 2012 A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
- Feb 2013Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
- Feb 2013Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month
- Mar 2013Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months
- Mar 2013The Big Book of Bitcoin - An introduction
- Jul 2013XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
- Nov 2015Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users?
- Apr 2018YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals
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twister - a P2P microblogging platform
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2013Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT
- Dec 2013Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
- Jan 2015Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
- Mar 2015Twister – Decentralized p2p microblogging
- Dec 2015Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
- Jun 2018Show HN: P2P decentralized messaging application over Bitcoin Cash
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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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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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