Hacker Papers
- 101
The Argument against Quantum Computers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]
- Oct 2019Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
- Dec 2019Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
- Oct 2021Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
- Feb 2023Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
- Dec 2024The Google Willow Thing
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
- 102
Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
- Mar 2019Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
- Sep 2019Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
- Aug 2020Julia 1.5 Highlights
- Oct 2020Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
- Oct 2020Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
- Aug 2021A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)
- Mar 2022It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)
- 103
Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
- Dec 2019Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
- Jul 2020Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
- Aug 2021Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jul 2025Efficient set-membership filters and dictionaries based on SAT
- 104
Are Transformers universal approximators of sequence-to-sequence functions?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
- Mar 2024OpenAI – transformer debugger release
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- 105
Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
- 106
A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
- Aug 2016A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
- Feb 2018Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
- May 2018Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
- May 2019Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
- Dec 2020Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- 107
Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Oct 2016All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- Dec 2023Direct initialization of transformers using larger pretrained ones
- 108
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf]
- Oct 2015Neural Artistic Captions
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
- Oct 2016Deepgram – Find Damning Soundbites
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018Asking the Right Questions About AI
- 109
Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 110
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
- Jun 2018Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Aug 2021Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
- 111
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Jul 2020You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Mar 2016Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
- Apr 2019YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Oct 2025Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
- 112
TinyLFU: A Highly Efficient Cache Admission Policy
Hacker News threads
- 113
BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions don't affect Quicksort
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions Don't Affect Quicksort
- Jun 2017Pattern-defeating quicksort
- Aug 2018On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort
- Jul 2021Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
- May 2023Ask HN: What is new in Algorithms / Data Structures these days?
- Jun 202310~17x faster than what? A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)
- 114
One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Nov 2017New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Oct 2018What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- May 2023Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
- 115
Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs
- Sep 2020Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2024A new type of neural network is more interpretable
- Aug 2024Fun times with energy-based models
- Feb 2025Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
- 116
Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
- Feb 2020Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models, Use Interpretable Models [pdf]
- Apr 2020Ode to J
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Jun 2022Shapash – Python library to make machine learning interpretable
- Apr 2024'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
- 117
Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
- Jun 2021Mesh: Compacting Memory Managementfor C/C++ Applications
- Nov 2021Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
- May 2019For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
- May 2019A new core playlist for VLC 4
- May 2021The compiler will optimize that away
- Jul 2023Vale's First Prototype for Immutable Region Borrowing
- Jan 2025Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer (2017)
- 118
Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Mar 2017In search of a simple consensus algorithm
- Mar 2017Paxos in 25 Lines
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- Jan 2025Did we miss P In CAP? Partial Progress Conjecture under Asynchrony
- Aug 2026TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
- 119
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (full version)
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Quantum mechanics is undecidable ()
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Jun 2016Physicists discover an infinite number of quantum speed limits
- Nov 2023How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Mar 2025'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
- 120
Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
- Oct 2017Show HN: Implementation of Poincaré Embeddings(Facebook Research) in Numpy
- Aug 2019Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space
- Aug 2019Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
- Feb 2021Illuminating hyperbolic geometry (2015) [video]
- Apr 2024Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)
- 121
Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
- May 2018Grid-Cell Like Deep Layers in Navigation AI
- Feb 2019The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
- Apr 2022Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- 122
Basic Category Theory
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Basic Category Theory
- Jan 2017[1612.09375] Basic Category Theory [pdf]
- Jan 2017Basic Category Theory (textbook)
- Aug 2019Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)
- Aug 2020Graphical Linear Algebra
- Oct 2022Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory [pdf]
- Apr 2026Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
- 123
Real numbers, data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019Data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
- Oct 2021At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies, Secret Payment
- Jan 2022How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Apr 2023Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
- 124
Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)
- Jul 2018Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
- Sep 2019A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
- Oct 2020AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
- Sep 2024Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
- Mar 2025The cultural divide between mathematics and AI
- 125
Metamath Zero: The Cartesian Theorem Prover
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
- Nov 2020Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
- Feb 2021Translating My Z3 Tutorial to Coq
- Mar 2023
- Feb 2024Is something bugging you?
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