Hacker Papers

1. 151
   

   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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2. 152
   

   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

   arXiv ↗
3. 153
   

   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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4. 154
   

   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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5. 155
   

   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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6. 156
   

   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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7. 157
   

   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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8. 158
   

   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

   arXiv ↗
9. 159
   

   Information Transmission Between Financial Markets in Chicago and New York

   Gregory Laughlin et al. · 2013

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2013The cost of high frequency trading infrastructure between NY and Chicago
   • Sep 2014VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong in Some Places
   • Jan 2018Network Latencies and Speed of Light
   • May 2018Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery

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10. 160
    

    RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response

    Úlfar Erlingsson et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2014RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response (ACM 2014)
    • Jun 2016Apple's emphasis on 'differential privacy'
    • Aug 2017Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way
    • Sep 2017Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12

    arXiv ↗
11. 161
    

    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 ↗
12. 162
    

    A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation

    Joel Veness et al. · 2009

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2010The Single Sign On
    • Nov 2018The impossibility of intelligence explosion
    • Jan 2024Learning Universal Predictors

    arXiv ↗
13. 163
    

    Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions

    Nathan Halko et al. · 2009

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2014Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors
    • Feb 2017Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (2014)
    • Sep 2024Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices

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14. 164
    

    A note comprising a negative resolution of the Efficient Market Hypothesis

    Robert Viragh · 2010

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2018Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
    • Apr 2019P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
    • May 2020Kindly Stop Saying the Efficient Market Hypothesis Is Dead

    arXiv ↗
15. 165
    

    HOGWILD!: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent

    Feng Niu et al. · 2011

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2016Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
    • Mar 2018Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly
    • Aug 2021Tesla Project Dojo Overview

    arXiv ↗
16. 166
    

    Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence

    Alex Rutherford et al. · 2011

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2015After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance
    • Jan 2019Immigration in American Economic History (2017) [pdf]
    • Jul 2020The global fertility rate is falling

    arXiv ↗
17. 167
    

    Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor

    Erik Lucero et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2015A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability
    • Jun 2019A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
    • Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

    arXiv ↗
18. 168
    

    Quantum computing and the entanglement frontier

    John Preskill · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2017Scientists pinpoint the singularity for quantum computers
    • Sep 2019On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
    • Oct 2019IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy

    arXiv ↗
19. 169
    

    Better Balance by Being Biased: A 0.8776-Approximation for Max Bisection

    Per Austrin et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2017P vs. NP
    • Aug 2017A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
    • Oct 2021The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science

    arXiv ↗
20. 170
    

    A theory of regularity structures

    Martin Hairer · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2014Hearing Music in Noise, Martin Hairer Wins the Fields Medal
    • Sep 2020Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
    • Jul 2026"the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

    arXiv ↗
21. 171
    

    Network-Centric Quantum Communications with Application to Critical Infrastructure Protection

    Richard J. Hughes et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2013Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years
    • Jun 2013Technical Implications of the NSA's Prism Program
    • Aug 2013Declassified: The US Government’s Quantum Internet

    arXiv ↗
22. 172
    

    A Theory of Changes for Higher-Order Languages - Incrementalizing λ-Calculi by Static Differentiation

    Yufei Cai et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Derivatives of Regular Expressions (2007)
    • May 2019Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
    • Aug 2020What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?

    arXiv ↗
23. 173
    

    The Amplituhedron

    Nima Arkani-Hamed, Jaroslav Trnka · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2019Amplituhedron
    • Jun 2020Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
    • Oct 2022Nima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-Time [video]

    arXiv ↗
24. 174
    

    Fast Training of Convolutional Networks through FFTs

    Michael Mathieu et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2015Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
    • May 2015A distributed supercomputer using Parallella boards
    • Sep 2020VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library

    arXiv ↗
25. 175
    

    Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

    Diederik P Kingma, Max Welling · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2015A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks (1998)
    • Oct 2017Variational Inference and Deep Learning: A New Synthesis [pdf]
    • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

    arXiv ↗

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