Hacker Papers

1. 126
   

   Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing

   Charles H. Bennett et al. · 1997

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2010Quantum computers no better than classical ones for NP-complete problems.
   • Sep 2016Limitations of Quantum Computing Algorithms (2003) [pdf]
   • Dec 2023Quantum computing's reality check
   • Apr 2026Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

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2. 127
   

   Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device

   Giuseppe Levi et al. · 2013

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2013Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
   • Mar 2014Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
   • May 2013
   • May 2013
   • May 2013
   • Nov 2013Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fusion devices
   • Nov 2013Preorder your very own cold fusion reactor
   • Feb 2016The E-Cat has been replicated?

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3. 128
   

   Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality

   Tomas Mikolov et al. · 2013

   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

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4. 129
   

   The World as a Hologram

   L. Susskind · 1994

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   • 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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5. 130
   

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

   Gary McGuire et al. · 2012

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   • 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

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6. 131
   

   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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7. 132
   

   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

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8. 133
   

   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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9. 134
   

   Constructor Theory of Information

   David Deutsch, Chiara Marletto · 2014

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   • May 2014Constructor Theory of Information
   • Nov 2014Constructor Theory of Information
   • Mar 2019Constructor Theory of Information
   • May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
   • May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
   • Dec 2014Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise
   • Apr 2021How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility

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10. 135
    

    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

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11. 136
    

    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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12. 137
    

    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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13. 138
    

    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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14. 139
    

    Classic Nintendo Games are (Computationally) Hard

    Greg Aloupis et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2015Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
    • Mar 2012Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
    • Mar 2012Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
    • Sep 2017The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard
    • Dec 2017Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
    • Aug 2019How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]

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15. 140
    

    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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16. 141
    

    From Philosophy to Program Size

    G. J. Chaitin · 2003

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2017From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)
    • Mar 2017Why literature is the ultimate big-data challenge
    • Sep 2017Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
    • Jul 2026How real are real numbers? (2004)

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17. 142
    

    An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists

    Eleanor G. Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak · 1998

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    • 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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18. 143
    

    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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19. 144
    

    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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20. 145
    

    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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21. 146
    

    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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22. 147
    

    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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23. 148
    

    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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24. 149
    

    Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform

    Haitham Hassanieh et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2013Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform
    • Jan 2012The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
    • Mar 2012A speed-up in Fast Fourier Transforms could change the modern world
    • May 2012Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology

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25. 150
    

    Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling

    David A. Wheeler · 2010

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2024Fully countering trusting trust through diverse double-compiling (2005)
    • Dec 2017Writing a C Compiler, Part 1
    • Mar 2026LiteLLM Python package compromised by supply-chain attack
    • Apr 2026C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell

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