Hacker Papers

1. 176
   

   When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies

   Steven Goldfeder et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2017When the Cookie Meets the Blockchain [pdf]
   • Aug 2017When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of cryptocurrency payments
   • Aug 2017Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies
   • Aug 2017Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
   • Aug 2017Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
   • Sep 2017It’s time to kill the web app
   • Mar 2018Bitcoin faces regulatory crackdown, Bank of England warns
   • Jun 2022ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode

   arXiv ↗
2. 177
   

   The Android Platform Security Model (2023)

   René Mayrhofer et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2019The Android Platform Security Model
   • Apr 2025The Android Platform Security Model v3 (2023)
   • Apr 2019The Android Platform Security Model [pdf]
   • Mar 2022F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
   • Mar 2022F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
   • Mar 2025Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
   • Mar 2026Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
   • Jul 2026Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

   arXiv ↗
3. 178
   

   Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack-Augmented Recurrent Nets

   Armand Joulin, Tomas Mikolov · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
   • Sep 2015Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
   • Sep 2015Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
   • Jan 2016Differentiable Programming
   • Jan 2023Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy [DeepMind, 2022]

   arXiv ↗
4. 179
   

   A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture

   Robert S. Smith et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
   • May 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
   • Aug 2016Introducing Quil: A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
   • Sep 2016QCL – A Programming Language for Quantum Computers
   • Jun 2017The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge
   • Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
   • Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
   • Apr 2018Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners

   arXiv ↗
5. 180
   

   Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12

   Jun Tang et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2017Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12
   • Apr 2019Privacy Loss in Apple’s Implementation of Differential Privacy (2017)
   • Sep 2017Privacy
   • Nov 2017Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance
   • Mar 2018The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (2014) [pdf]
   • Apr 2025Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy

   arXiv ↗
6. 181
   

   DeepMath - Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection

   Alex A. Alemi et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2016DeepMath – Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection
   • Jul 2016Behind Wolfram Alpha’s Mathematical Induction-Based Proof Generator
   • Nov 2016Tensorflow Deepmath: Experiments towards neural network theorem proving
   • Feb 2017Summary of 'Programs with Common Sense' (1959) by John McCarthy
   • Oct 2020Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI

   arXiv ↗
7. 182
   

   TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines

   Jeremy Kepner et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2018MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine
   • Feb 2025TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines (2018)
   • Jul 2018Replacing Linux with a Database System
   • Dec 2018Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
   • Mar 2020Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
   • Nov 2025Imperative to Relational

   arXiv ↗
8. 183
   

   Highway Networks

   Rupesh Kumar Srivastava et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2015Highway Networks
   • Aug 2015Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
   • Apr 2016Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
   • Jun 2016What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?
   • Mar 2019Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

   arXiv ↗
9. 184
   

   RAISR: Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution

   Yaniv Romano et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2017RAISR: Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution
   • Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
   • Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
   • Feb 2017Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
   • Oct 2018New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

   arXiv ↗
10. 185
    

    CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography

    Casey Chu et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography [2017]
    • Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
    • Sep 2024Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tags
    • Aug 2025How attention sinks keep language models stable
    • Mar 2026No right to relicense this project
    • Oct 2026Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

    arXiv ↗
11. 186
    

    Algorand

    Jing Chen, Silvio Micali · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2016ALGORAND: The Efficient and Democratic Ledger (by Silvio Micali)
    • Apr 2017An off-grid social network
    • Jul 2017Photos: Life inside of China’s massive and remote Bitcoin mines
    • Jan 2018Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]
    • Oct 2020Algorand Consensus Protocol

    arXiv ↗
12. 187
    

    Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

    Timothy P. Lillicrap et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2015Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning
    • Sep 2015DeepMind: Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning
    • Oct 2015A Peek Inside Google’s Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
    • Dec 2015The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
    • Mar 2016AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
    • Dec 2020You might not need machine learning

    arXiv ↗
13. 188
    

    A postquantum theory of classical gravity?

    Jonathan Oppenheim · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2023A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
    • Jul 2023The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy
    • Dec 2023Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL
    • Mar 2024The end of the dark universe?
    • Jun 2025Theory links Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics

    arXiv ↗
14. 189
    

    A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics

    Joan Solà et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2025Lie Group Theory for Robotics
    • Apr 2022Exponentially Better Rotations
    • Jan 2023Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?
    • Jan 2024Higher Order Derivatives of Transforms
    • Jun 2024Lie Theory for the Roboticist (2020) [video]

    arXiv ↗
15. 190
    

    Semi-Supervised Learning with Ladder Networks

    Antti Rasmus et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2015Towards universal neural nets: Gibbs machines and ACE
    • Oct 2016What is chemical intuition?
    • Dec 2016This AI Boom Will Also Bust
    • Mar 2025Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition

    arXiv ↗
16. 191
    

    The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration

    Ari Holtzman et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2019Finetuning GPT-2 to Generate Beatles Lyrics
    • Nov 2019OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model
    • Nov 2020TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents
    • Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?

    arXiv ↗
17. 192
    

    Temporal Fusion Transformers for Interpretable Multi-horizon Time Series Forecasting

    Bryan Lim et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2021Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
    • Aug 2023Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens
    • Jul 2024XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
    • Sep 2024Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth

    arXiv ↗
18. 193
    

    Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches

    Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2019A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
    • Aug 2019Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
    • Jul 2019Are We Making Much Progress with Neural Networks?
    • Dec 2019Categories of deep recommendation systems
    • Aug 2020Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding
    • Mar 2021AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)
    • Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)

    arXiv ↗
19. 194
    

    Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift

    Sergey Ioffe, Christian Szegedy · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
    • Feb 2015Ioffe and Szegedy get 4.8% top-5 test on ImageNet(beating recent MSR result)
    • Feb 2026Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training (2015)
    • May 2015The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (2012)
    • Apr 2016Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
    • Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
    • Mar 2017Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks

    arXiv ↗
20. 195
    

    EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks

    Mingxing Tan, Quoc V. Le · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2019EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks
    • Aug 2019OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
    • Sep 2019Emergences: A Talk by Danny Hillis
    • Jul 2021Alphafold
    • May 2022I don't trust papers out of “Top Labs” anymore

    arXiv ↗
21. 196
    

    Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators

    Radford M. Neal · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2017Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators
    • Mar 2019Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)
    • May 2020Things we learned about sums
    • May 2024Taming floating-point sums
    • Nov 2024How to Correctly Sum Up Numbers

    arXiv ↗
22. 197
    

    CRN++: Molecular Programming Language

    Marko Vasic et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2018CRN++: Molecular Programming Language
    • Nov 2018How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch
    • Apr 2020Deep Molecular Programming
    • Nov 20203D engine implemented in DNA code
    • May 2021What can mRNA treat next?

    arXiv ↗
23. 198
    

    Indexing dif/2

    Ulrich Neumerkel, Stefan Kral · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2018Pure efficient “if” in Prolog
    • May 2017Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular?
    • Oct 2019Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook
    • Sep 2022Lunatic: Erlang-Inspired Runtime for WebAssembly
    • Dec 2022Prolog at Work

    arXiv ↗
24. 199
    

    Hyperband: A Novel Bandit-Based Approach to Hyperparameter Optimization

    Lisha Li et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2017Population-based training of neural networks
    • Feb 2018Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
    • Jul 2018Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
    • Jun 2023Hyperparameter Optimization for LLMs via Scaling Laws

    arXiv ↗
25. 200
    

    New cardinality estimation algorithms for HyperLogLog sketches

    Otmar Ertl · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2017Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog
    • Jan 2018Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections
    • Nov 2018HyperMinHash: Bringing intersections to HyperLogLog
    • Mar 2021WyHLL: The most accurate 3-bits HyperLogLog

    arXiv ↗

Data from the Hacker News archive (ODC-By), arXiv and OpenAlex. Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator.