Hacker Papers
- 76
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
- 77
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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Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2014DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition
- Feb 2015Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition
- Dec 2014DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition [pdf]
- Jun 2015What's Wrong with Deep Learning?
- Oct 2015How Baidu is improving Mandarin voice recognition with deep learning
- Feb 2017How to Train Baidu's Deepspeech Model with Kur
- Dec 2017A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture
- Aug 2021Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
- 79
Learning to Execute
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Learning to Execute
- Nov 2014Learning to Execute [pdf]
- Nov 2014Jeff Hawkins on the Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks
- May 2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2016The future is fewer people writing code?
- Jun 2017DeepFix: Fixing Common C Language Errors by Deep Learning
- 80
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 81
Is "the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory?
Hacker News threads
- 82
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
- 83
word2vec Explained: deriving Mikolov et al.'s negative-sampling word-embedding method
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Word2Vec Explained [pdf]
- Jun 2015Hound voice search NLP demo [video]
- Oct 2015Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing[pdf]
- Mar 2017Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages
- Sep 2017What every software engineer should know about search
- Nov 2017Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?
- 84
Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 85
Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2015Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
- Feb 2017The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]
- 86
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
- 87
Seven Trees in One
Hacker News threads
- 88
Nonlinear quantum mechanics implies polynomial-time solution for NP-complete and #P problems
Hacker News threads
- May 2010What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- Feb 2011A Deepness In The Sky
- Sep 2015You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- 89
DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Hacker News threads
- 90
Memory Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2014Memory Networks
- Feb 2015Facebook Memory Networks
- Mar 2015Memory Network [pdf]
- Mar 2015Facebook's Memory Networks Demo
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- May 2015Are There Deep Reasons Underlying the Pathologies of Deep Learning Algorithms? [pdf]
- Jul 2015FANN.js – Fast Artificial Neural Network Compiled with Emscripten
- Oct 2016Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory
- Oct 2025A History of Large Language Models
- 91
The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2008The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity
- Jul 2013Faster Than the Speed of Light?
- Aug 2018Alcubierre drive
- Nov 2020Warp Drive News
- Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
- Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
- Dec 2021No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble
- 92
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
- Jun 2017Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)
- Jul 2026Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Oct 2014The octave – history of a discovery
- Mar 2016Show HN: 19 Tone Equal Temperament Piano in Web Audio
- Sep 2016Music theory for nerds
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- May 2020Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company
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Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2014Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
- May 2015Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript
- Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
- Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
- Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
- Sep 2015AI Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
- Nov 2015Watch an AI bot play Go [video]
- 94
Life Before Earth
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025Life Before Earth
- Sep 2015Life before Earth (2013) [pdf]
- Apr 2013Moore's Law and the Origin of Life
- Jan 2018Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
- Aug 2020Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
- Dec 2020A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
- Apr 2021When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?
- 95
The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)
- Jan 2018The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)
- Jan 2019The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes – Max Tegmark (1999)
- Mar 2012Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem explained
- Feb 2013The Brain is Not Computable
- Aug 2013Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors
- Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- 96
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
- 97
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
- 98
Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond
Hacker News threads
- 99
On the reality of the quantum state
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2011The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically
- Nov 2011Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Nov 2011Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Nov 2011The insanely weird quantum wave function might be "real" after all
- Apr 2014Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time
- Oct 2016How Schrödinger’s Cat Became Such a Violent Fable
- Jan 2018The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
- 100
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
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