Hacker Papers
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Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2021Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
- Sep 2024Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
- May 2020Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second [pdf]
- Mar 2019An Intel Programmer Jumps over Wall: First Impressions of ARM SIMD Programming
- Jul 2019How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
- Oct 2021Word-Aligned Bloom Filters
- Mar 20241BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
- Aug 2025Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
- Sep 2026Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm
- 102
Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
- Oct 2018Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
- Oct 2018Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
- Apr 2019Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
- Jul 2019A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
- Feb 2020Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
- Oct 2020The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
- Jul 2021Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
- Dec 2021Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
- 103
Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
- Jul 2021Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions [pdf]
- Dec 2016Don’t assume that safety comes for free: a Swift case study
- May 2018Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
- Jun 2019Abusing the CPU's Adder Circuits
- Sep 2019Popcount CPU instruction
- Jun 2021The NSA Instruction (2019)
- Sep 2022Intel Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library
- 104
InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016InfoGAN: Representation Learning by Generative Adversarial Nets
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Aug 2016OpenAI Team Update
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
- Apr 2017Unsupervised sentiment neuron
- Sep 2017PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
- 105
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 106
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
- 107
Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay
- Jun 2019Bitcoin climbs to $10k
- Dec 2019Erlay: A performance improvement to the Bitcoin network
- Mar 2020Erlay: Bandwidth-efficient Bitcoin transaction relay protocol
- Aug 2020Network Coding in P2P Networks
- Dec 2020Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
- Aug 2024A Technical Look at BitMessage: Learning From a Dead Project
- 108
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
- Dec 2016Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Nov 2017Closing the Simulation-to-Reality Gap for Deep Robotic Learning
- May 2020Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
- Jan 2024Barcoding Bees (2020)
- 109
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Adversarial Network
- Sep 2016Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
- Jul 2020Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
- 110
Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]
- Dec 2019Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
- Dec 2019Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
- Jun 2020Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
- Jun 2020YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
- Jun 2020YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
- Jul 2020The TikTok War
- Sep 2020Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
- Dec 2020Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report says
- Dec 2020YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
- Aug 2021If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data
- 111
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
- Jun 2019The transformer “explained”?
- Jul 2019MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
- Aug 2019GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
- Aug 2019Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
- Aug 2020Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
- May 2022Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- 112
Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- 113
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Unsupervised Rep. Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Advers. Nets
- Jul 2026Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional GANs
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Mar 2016Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- 114
DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands
- Sep 2017DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands
- Sep 2017South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
- Sep 2017South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
- May 2018Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
- Jan 2019Designing an audio adblocker
- Mar 2019Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
- Feb 2020SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
- Feb 2020Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop
- 115
Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Zero shot translation learning
- Nov 2016Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Feb 2017Google's Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System
- Nov 2016Peeking into the architecture used for Google's Neural Machine Translation
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Mar 2017Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
- Jul 2017Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
- 116
Learning to reinforcement learn
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- 117
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)
- Aug 2020Flash Boys 2.0
- Sep 2020Frontrunning, Tx Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
- Apr 2019Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges
- Nov 2019Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
- Jan 2021Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)
- Feb 2021Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators
- Feb 2021Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing
- Sep 2022Flashbots
- 118
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- May 2019Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- Nov 2024Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials (2018) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
- Jul 2019Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
- May 2022Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
- Jul 2022Notation for Differentiation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2025Multiplicative Infinitesimals
- 119
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"
- 120
Automatic chemical design using a data-driven continuous representation of molecules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Automatic chemical design using deep neural networks
- Oct 2016Deep learning can debug biology
- Oct 2016Keras-based molecular autoencoder
- Oct 2016Keras-based molecular autoencoder
- Jan 2017Applying deep adversarial autoencoders for new molecule development in oncology
- Jun 2021Chemical space is really big (2014)
- Jul 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Nov 2025Parsing Chemistry
- 121
Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Apr 2017Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out
- Jun 2017By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2019Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- 122
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)
- 123
Deep Learning with Limited Numerical Precision
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Deep Learning with Limited Numerical Precision
- May 2015Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics
- Sep 2015Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks?
- Nov 2015TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
- Feb 2017The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel
- Apr 2017An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
- Apr 2017An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
- 124
Universal Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
- Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
- Aug 2025The Drivers of HRM's Performance on Arc-AGI
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
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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
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