Hacker Papers
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Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Oct 2021GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
- Jun 2022Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code
- Dec 2022Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy
- Jan 2023It's Plausible, but Is It True?
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A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Aug 2014A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Mar 2019A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
- Jun 2017When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing
- Oct 2021Consistent Hashing for Dummies
- Mar 2022S2: Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere
- May 2024Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)
- Sep 2026Saving another 100TB of RAM
- 128
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
- 129
Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jun 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- Aug 2025My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Jul 2026Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos
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Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
- Nov 2023Extracting Training Data from LLMs
- Nov 2023Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
- Dec 2023Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Feb 2024Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
- Oct 2025What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
- Nov 2025The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Aug 2021DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Jul 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Sep 2022DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
- Dec 2023Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
- Oct 2025Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
- Sep 2026Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
- 132
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 133
Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type [a Password,] Acoustic Eavesdropping in VOIP
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type—Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP [pdf]
- Oct 2016Don't Skype and Type Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
- Sep 2018How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
- Aug 2019Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
- Apr 2020When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
- Aug 2022Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio
- Dec 2023Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
- 134
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
- 135
Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Sep 2022A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
- 136
LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Jul 2023LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Mar 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Can tokenizers go from fixed length tokens to varying length?
- Jul 2025Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- 137
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
- May 2020SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
- Dec 2022Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
- Oct 2024A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Jan 2025IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Jun 2025JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
- 138
SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023SWE-Bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
- Feb 2024SWE-BENCH: Can language models resolve real-world GitHub issues?
- Jan 2024Researchers say generative AI isn't replacing devs any time soon
- Sep 2025Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
- Dec 2025Django: what’s new in 6.0
- Mar 2026Ask HN: Does code style matter much anymore?
- Oct 2026Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
- 139
Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 140
Seven Trees in One
Hacker News threads
- 141
Dissociating language and thought in large language models
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Dissociating language and thought in large language models
- Jan 2023Dissociating language and thought in LLMs: a cognitive perspective
- Feb 2023Dissociating language, thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective
- Feb 2023I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
- Feb 2023Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models (2021)
- Apr 2023Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Jul 2023A Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- 142
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
- 143
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]
- 144
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?
- 145
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)
- 146
AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining
Hacker News threads
- 147
OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Extended Version)
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
- Apr 2020OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jun 2021Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking
- May 2026Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
- 148
Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014
Hacker News threads
- 149
A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
- Jan 2021Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
- Nov 2022Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software
- Jun 2023Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
- Feb 2024A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
- Jun 2026Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts
- 150
Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond
Hacker News threads
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