Hacker Papers
- 101
Is the quantum state real? An extended review of $ψ$-ontology theorems
Hacker News threads
- 102
Deep Fried Convnets
Hacker News threads
- 103
Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing
Hacker News threads
- 104
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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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
- 106
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
- 107
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
- 108
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]
- 109
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
- 110
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
- 111
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]
- 112
Consciousness as a State of Matter
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014Consciousness as a State of Matter
- Apr 2017Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)
- Jan 2019Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
- Dec 2015Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014)
- Dec 2015Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014)
- Jul 2017Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
- Sep 2017The Hardening of Consciousness
- Oct 2019The crisis in physics is not only about physics
- 113
The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 114
Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? [pdf]
- Jan 2014Shallow neural networks as good as Deep Neural Networks
- Jan 2014Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?
- Aug 2014IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does
- Sep 2014A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision
- Jan 2015A Brief Overview of Deep Learning
- Jun 2016The truth about deep learning
- 115
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
- Aug 2022The Fastest And Shortest Algorithm For All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
- Jan 2017Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
- Feb 2017From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)
- Jun 2019Galactic Algorithms (2010)
- May 2021The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (2002)
- 116
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?
- 117
Going Deeper with Convolutions
Hacker News threads
- 118
The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter
Hacker News threads
- 119
Practical recommendations for gradient-based training of deep architectures
Hacker News threads
- 120
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Hacker News threads
- 121
Mass Extinction And The Structure Of The Milky Way
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
- Oct 2019Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way
- Sep 2013Correlations between mass extinctions, sun's changing position in galaxy
- Jan 2017Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus
- Mar 2018All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study
- Oct 2018Panspermia
- May 2020Swarm satellites probe weakening of Earth’s magnetic field
- 122
Computing in Operations Research using Julia
Hacker News threads
- 123
From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 124
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2015Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2016FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
- Jun 2019Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation
- 125
The World as a Hologram
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2026The World as a Hologram
- Jun 2018The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
- Sep 2019Simulation of what a massive black hole would look like
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
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