Hacker Papers

1. 126
   

   There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem

   Gary McGuire et al. · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2012Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem [pdf]
   • Mar 2012There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem
   • Jun 2017Can Neural Networks Crack Sudoku?
   • Jun 2019Let’s Publish Everything
   • Jun 2019Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016)
   • May 2023Problems harder than NP-Complete

   arXiv ↗
2. 127
   

   Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   The CMS Collaboration · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2012Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson
   • Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
   • Dec 2017Neutrino experiment reveals inconsistency in how matter and antimatter behave
   • Jan 2021Are Experts Real?

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3. 128
   

   How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior

   Justin Cheng et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2014Down-Vote Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback
   • May 2014Data Mining Shows How Down-Voting Leads To Vicious Circle of Negative Feedback
   • Oct 2017Facebook’s 2016 Election Team Gave Advertisers a Blueprint to a Divided US
   • Mar 2018Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

   arXiv ↗
4. 129
   

   Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator

   Oriol Vinyals et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2014Google and Stanford build hybrid neural networks that can explain photos
   • May 2015The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (2012)
   • May 2015Google Photos
   • Jun 2016Elasticsearch Based Image Search Using RGB Signatures

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5. 130
   

   Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification

   Yoon Kim · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2015Deep learning for NLP resources
   • Nov 2017Ask HN: Anyone using NLP to tag sentences?
   • Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
   • Mar 2018Understanding word vectors

   arXiv ↗
6. 131
   

   Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description

   Jeff Donahue et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2014Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
   • Nov 2014Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
   • Jan 2015A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
   • Apr 2019Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2019 Results

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7. 132
   

   An Introduction to Quantum Computing

   Noson S. Yanofsky · 2007

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2019An Introduction to Quantum Computing
   • Sep 2022An Introduction to Quantum Computing (2007)
   • Aug 2015NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms
   • Jun 2017Ask HN: Where can I find open course materials on Quantum Computing?
   • Feb 2020Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra
   • Feb 2020An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)

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8. 133
   

   Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

   Robert J. Nemiroff, Teresa Wilson · 2013

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
   • Sep 2022Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
   • Apr 2017Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (2013)
   • Dec 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
   • Oct 2016A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
   • May 2025When was peak message in a bottle?

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9. 134
   

   Random feedback weights support learning in deep neural networks

   Timothy P. Lillicrap et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2014Random feedback weights support learning in deep neural networks
   • Dec 2015How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
   • Aug 2016Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
   • Mar 2017Deep Learning without Backpropagation

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10. 135
    

    An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists

    Eleanor G. Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak · 1998

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2015An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists (2000) [pdf]
    • Dec 2015Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists
    • Jun 2007New approach to quantum information systems
    • Feb 2017List of Quantum Computing Simulators
    • Oct 2018Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

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11. 136
    

    A dialog on quantum gravity

    Carlo Rovelli · 2003

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2012A dialog on quantum gravity (2003)
    • Jan 2016String Theory Might Merge with Loop Quantum Gravity
    • Jul 2017Quirks of the arXiv
    • May 2022X-Clacks-Overhead

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12. 137
    

    The Cost of Address Translation

    Tomasz Jurkiewicz, Kurt Mehlhorn · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2016Accessing RAM sometimes costs extra log(N)
    • Oct 2020The asymptotic cost of address translation on memory access time
    • Dec 2015Test results for Broadwell and Skylake
    • Jan 2017Maps and sets can have quadratic-time performance
    • May 2018A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table

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13. 138
    

    Quantum Deep Learning

    Nathan Wiebe et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2014Quantum Deep Learning
    • Dec 2014Quantum Deep Learning [pdf]
    • Sep 2016D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System
    • Sep 2017General purpose quantum computing closer to reality with Microsoft breakthroughs
    • Jun 2022Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners

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14. 139
    

    Formalization, Mechanization and Automation of Gödel's Proof of God's Existence

    Christoph Benzmüller, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2013Gödel's Proof of God's Existence
    • Oct 2013Formalizations of Gödel's Ontological Proof of God's Existence
    • Jul 2019Gödel's Ontological Proof
    • Jan 2024Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death

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15. 140
    

    Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems

    Carl Hewitt · 2010

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2014Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems [pdf]
    • Nov 2017Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
    • Aug 2018Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]
    • Feb 2023Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisors

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16. 141
    

    An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

    A. Garrett Lisi · 2007

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2022An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
    • Feb 2008Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash
    • Aug 2016The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true
    • Jul 2018The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics

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17. 142
    

    The Proof of Innocence

    Dmitri Krioukov · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2012Physicist challenges a traffic case about running a red light. He Won [pdf]
    • Apr 2012[pdf] Proof of Innocence, or how a Physicist gets out of a traffic ticket.
    • Apr 2012Judge vs. Physics Professor: The Proof of Innocence
    • Apr 2012Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
    • Jul 2017Quirks of the arXiv
    • Oct 2023The Proof of Innocence

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18. 143
    

    The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light

    Marcel Urban et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2013The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light
    • Mar 2013Possible explanation of speed of light
    • Mar 2013Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest
    • Sep 2015Why is light so fast?
    • Apr 2016Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster

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19. 144
    

    Exploiting Similarities among Languages for Machine Translation

    Tomas Mikolov et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
    • Oct 2013Stanford researchers to open source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis
    • Jun 2015Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
    • Mar 2017Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages

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20. 145
    

    Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?

    M. V. Berry et al. · 2011

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2011The most informative abstract ever (re: speeding neutrinos)
    • Dec 2016Nurturing Genius
    • Oct 2018State of the Art: Reproducibility in Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
    • Oct 2024The Event Horizon Telescope image might need a correction

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21. 146
    

    Time from quantum entanglement: an experimental illustration

    Ekaterina Moreva et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2013Time from quantum entanglement: an experimental illustration
    • Feb 2015There exists a classical model of the photon after all
    • Aug 2017Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
    • May 2021An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump (2019)

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22. 147
    

    Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance

    Jere H. Jenkins et al. · 2008

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2021Evidence for Correlation of Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance (2008)
    • Aug 2008Do nuclear decay rates depend on our distance from the sun?
    • Aug 2010The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay
    • Jun 2011The Dark Matter Data Bonanza

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23. 148
    

    PageRank: Standing on the shoulders of giants

    Massimo Franceschet · 2010

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2020PageRank: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (2010)
    • Feb 2010PageRank: Stand on the shoulders of giants
    • May 2014The Italian Man Who Inspired Google Web Search
    • Jun 2022Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019)
    • Jun 2023My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot

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24. 149
    

    MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics

    Radford M. Neal · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2018MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics (2012)
    • Feb 2017A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
    • Apr 2019Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
    • Oct 2021An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming

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25. 150
    

    Quantum Time Crystals

    Frank Wilczek · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2024Show HN: Spk.so – AI Conversational Audio Discussions
    • Aug 2012An Unexpected Ass Kicking
    • May 2013‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time
    • Jun 2018There Are No Laws of Physics, There’s Only the Landscape

    arXiv ↗

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