Hacker Papers

1. 176
   

   Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP

   Alberto Compagno et al. · 2016

   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

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2. 177
   

   Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation

   Tero Karras et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2018Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation
   • Apr 2018A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit
   • Oct 2018Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
   • Nov 2023SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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3. 178
   

   The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes

   Andrew J. Reagan et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2016The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
   • Jun 2020Using machine learning to classify story arcs into six basic shapes
   • Mar 2018The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
   • Aug 2016Text Summarization with TensorFlow
   • Oct 2018Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types
   • Jan 2019At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)
   • Aug 2020The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters
   • Nov 2023Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots

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4. 179
   

   The Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot

   Li Zhou et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2019Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot (2018) [pdf]
   • Dec 2020An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
   • Jan 2023Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
   • Mar 2023Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”
   • Nov 2023Grok

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5. 180
   

   Image-to-Markup Generation with Coarse-to-Fine Attention

   Yuntian Deng et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2017Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot
   • Dec 2017Accessibility Through Semantic HTML
   • Nov 2023Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code

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6. 181
   

   That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox

   Anders Sandberg et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2017The aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox
   • Nov 2017That is not dead which can eternal lie
   • Oct 2023That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation for Fermi's paradox
   • Jul 2017Dissolving the Fermi Paradox [pdf]
   • Jul 2017A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet
   • Jun 2018What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from now
   • Oct 2018Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test

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7. 182
   

   Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (short version)

   Toby Cubitt et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2021The World After Capital (2018)
   • Sep 2022John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017)
   • Oct 2023What Is the Point of Decidability

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8. 183
   

   Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold

   Edd Barrett et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2016Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold
   • Feb 2016Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
   • Mar 2016CS143: Compilers (2011)
   • Oct 2016How to speed up the Rust compiler
   • Dec 2016Nectar: A Native JavaScript Compiler Inspired by Crystal Lang and Nim Lang
   • Oct 2021Jitterdämmerung (2015, Updated 2021)
   • Aug 2022Big changes ahead for Deno
   • Nov 2022More evidence for problems in VM warmup
   • Sep 2023ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++

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9. 184
   

   What is Applied Category Theory?

   Tai-Danae Bradley · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2021What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)
   • May 2019What Is Applied Category Theory?
   • May 2019What Is Applied Category Theory? [pdf]
   • Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
   • Sep 2019A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages
   • Dec 2019Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
   • Apr 2020Ask HN: What are you learning?
   • May 2020Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
   • May 2021An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs

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10. 185
    

    Java Generics are Turing Complete

    Radu Grigore · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2016Java Generics Are Turing Complete
    • Dec 2017Java generics are turing complete
    • Feb 2018Java Generic Are Turing Complete
    • Nov 2016The Unsound Playground: Java and Scala's Type Systems are Unsound
    • Oct 2017Classification of the principal programming paradigms
    • Apr 2019How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?
    • Jun 2019Google/Oracle’s $9B Copyright Case Could Be Headed for the Supreme Court
    • Jan 2021A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
    • Sep 2021LLVM 13's new pass manager improves Rust's compile times by up to 20%
    • Oct 2022From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
    • Sep 2023When Zig Outshines Rust – Memory Efficient Enum Arrays

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11. 186
    

    Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution

    Ross Mcilroy et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2019Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution
    • Feb 2019Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix
    • Mar 2019Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
    • Apr 2019Lisp Operating System (2015)
    • Sep 2019OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]
    • Dec 2019C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
    • Mar 2021Post-Spectre Web Development, Editor's Draft, 2021-03-10
    • Mar 2021Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
    • Aug 2023Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation

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12. 187
    

    Deep Learning and the Information Bottleneck Principle

    Naftali Tishby, Noga Zaslavsky · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2016Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
    • Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
    • Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
    • May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
    • Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

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13. 188
    

    BadNets: Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Machine Learning Model Supply Chain

    Tianyu Gu et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2017BadNets: Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Machine Learning Model Supply Chain
    • Aug 2017BadNets: Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Machine Learning Model Supply Chain
    • Oct 2017Vulnerabilities in the machine learning model supply chain
    • Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
    • Feb 2023Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
    • Jul 2023LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020)

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14. 189
    

    The Big Bang, CPT, and neutrino dark matter

    Latham Boyle et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2022The Big Bang, CPT, and neutrino dark matter
    • Mar 2022Scientists Say There May Be a Mirror Universe in Which Time Runs Backwards
    • Dec 2022Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?
    • Jul 2023Have We Gotten Dark Matter All Wrong?

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15. 190
    

    WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking

    Arjaldo Karaj et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2018Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking
    • Dec 2019A New Search Engine
    • Jul 2023Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

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16. 191
    

    Mixed Precision Training

    Paulius Micikevicius et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2017Mixed Precision Training for Deep Learning Models
    • Oct 2017Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
    • Oct 20182080 RTX performance on Tensorflow with CUDA 10
    • Jun 2019Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
    • Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning

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17. 192
    

    Real Differences between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors

    Chengzheng Sun et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2018Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
    • Oct 2018Real differences between ot and crdt for co-editors
    • Oct 2018Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
    • May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
    • Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
    • Sep 2021The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
    • Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
    • Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing

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18. 193
    

    Real Differences between OT and CRDT in Correctness and Complexity for Consistency Maintenance in Co-Editors

    David Sun et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
    • May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
    • May 2019Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor
    • Jun 2019Creating a Collaborative Editor
    • Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
    • Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing

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19. 194
    

    Recurrent Relational Networks

    Rasmus Berg Palm et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
    • Jul 2023Code Interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week

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20. 195
    

    Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data

    M. Keith Chen et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019Racial disparities in voting wait times: evidence from smartphone data
    • Oct 2020Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote
    • May 2021Are we cut out for universal morality?
    • Jun 2023Why Britain Doesn’t Build

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21. 196
    

    BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions don't affect Quicksort

    Stefan Edelkamp, Armin Weiß · 2016

    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)

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22. 197
    

    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

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23. 198
    

    The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities

    Joel Lehman et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2018When algorithms surprise us
    • Mar 2018Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation
    • Mar 2018The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: Artifical Life and EC Anecdotes
    • Mar 2018Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
    • Jun 2018Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?
    • Nov 2018Evolved antenna
    • Apr 2019Notes on AI Bias
    • Mar 2021Lying to the Ghost in the Machine
    • Jun 2021One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
    • Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
    • Jun 2023Own-Goal Football (2022)

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24. 199
    

    BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline

    Ian Tenney et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2021Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence
    • Feb 2023We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
    • May 2023Show HN: Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University)

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25. 200
    

    Practical Attacks Against Privacy and Availability in 4G/LTE Mobile Communication Systems

    Altaf Shaik et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2015Practical attacks against privacy and availability in 4G/LTE systems
    • Oct 2015Practical attacks against 4G (LTE) access network protocols
    • Oct 2015Police Stingray Tools Can Indeed Record Calls
    • Nov 2018Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20
    • May 2023LTESniffer – An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

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