Hacker Papers

1. 1001
   

   Secure Encrypted Virtualization is Unsecure

   Zhao-Hui Du et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2020How SGX Fails in Practice
   • Jul 2020Confidential VMs
   • Mar 2021Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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2. 1002
   

   Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs

   Timur Garipov et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2023Knowledge Is a Region in Weight Space for Fine-Tuned Language Models
   • Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
   • Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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3. 1003
   

   Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games

   Rachit Dubey et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2019Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test
   • May 2020Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
   • Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model

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4. 1004
   

   MOSQUITO: Covert Ultrasonic Transmissions between Two Air-Gapped Computers using Speaker-to-Speaker Communication

   Mordechai Guri et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2019US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds
   • Apr 2023HN thread 35355540
   • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

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5. 1005
   

   Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning

   Lydia T. Liu et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2019Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
   • Sep 2020Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial
   • Dec 2020AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

   arXiv ↗
6. 1006
   

   Averaging Weights Leads to Wider Optima and Better Generalization

   Pavel Izmailov et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2020An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions
   • Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
   • Apr 2024Schedule-Free Learning – A New Way to Train

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7. 1007
   

   WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking

   Arjaldo Karaj et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2018Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking
   • Dec 2019A New Search Engine
   • Jul 2023Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

   arXiv ↗
8. 1008
   

   Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)

   Nuno Preguiça et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
   • Mar 2022Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant [pdf]
   • Dec 2022Ask HN: What are best patterns for events in distributed transactions?

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9. 1009
   

   AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Policies from Data

   Ekin D. Cubuk et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2018Improving Deep Learning Performance with AutoAugment
   • Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
   • May 2019Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence

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10. 1010
    

    Neural Guided Constraint Logic Programming for Program Synthesis

    Lisa Zhang et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2023Compilers for the Future
    • Aug 2023Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
    • Jan 2025What Is miniKanren?

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11. 1011
    

    ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture; increasing shape bias improves accuracy and robustness

    Robert Geirhos et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
    • Feb 2021What Inception Net Doesn't See
    • May 2024AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)

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12. 1012
    

    Lessons from Building Acoustic Models with a Million Hours of Speech

    Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Nikko Strom · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2019Alexa researchers train speech recognizer on 1M hours of unlabeled speech
    • Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
    • Apr 2020Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch

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13. 1013
    

    BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline

    Ian Tenney et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2021Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence
    • Feb 2023We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
    • May 2023Show HN: Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University)

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14. 1014
    

    Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems

    Maxim Naumov et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
    • Mar 2024Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
    • Mar 2025Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

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15. 1015
    

    Hamiltonian Neural Networks

    Sam Greydanus et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2020Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive
    • Jun 2020Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'
    • Jul 2020AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?

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16. 1016
    

    A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox

    Kok-Wei Bong et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2020Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
    • Dec 2021Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?
    • Jul 2024Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality

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17. 1017
    

    Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

    Austin Hounsel et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
    • Dec 2025RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016)
    • Mar 2026Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

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18. 1018
    

    Attention is not not Explanation

    Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
    • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
    • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

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19. 1019
    

    KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning

    Tarin Clanuwat et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2019Machine Learning Can Help Unlock the World of Ancient Japan
    • Dec 2025The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition
    • Apr 2026Hokusai and Tesselations

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20. 1020
    

    Failure of Normalization in Impredicative Type Theory with Proof-Irrelevant Propositional Equality

    Andreas Abel, Thierry Coquand · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2020Coq is a Lean Typechecker
    • Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
    • Jun 2026Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

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21. 1021
    

    Array Languages Make Neural Networks Fast

    Artjoms Šinkarovs et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
    • Mar 2023HN thread 34978026
    • Jun 2024Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license

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22. 1022
    

    OTEANN: Estimating the Transparency of Orthographies with an Artificial Neural Network

    Xavier Marjou · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2020What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)
    • May 2023Deseret Alphabet
    • Jul 2025Why English doesn't use accents
    • Jul 2025Why English doesn't use accents

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23. 1023
    

    ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT

    Omar Khattab, Matei Zaharia · 2020

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    • May 2024Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
    • Sep 2024Late Chunking: Contextual Chunk Embeddings Using Long-Context Embedding Models
    • Jan 2025Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

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24. 1024
    

    ZX-calculus for the working quantum computer scientist

    John van de Wetering · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2023Introduction to the ZX-Calculus
    • Jun 2024Category theory using string diagrams (2014)
    • Dec 2024A particle physics course for high-school students

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25. 1025
    

    LowKey: Leveraging Adversarial Attacks to Protect Social Media Users from Facial Recognition

    Valeriia Cherepanova et al. · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2021LowKey web app tweaks images to thwart facial recognition systems
    • Feb 2021Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition
    • Apr 2021Ask HN: Amyone successfully verify fawkes claims of protection against AI?

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