Hacker Papers

1. 201
   

   Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification

   Armand Joulin et al. · 2016

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   • Jul 2016Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
   • Jul 2016FastText: Training text classifiers on 1b words in less than 10 minutes
   • Aug 2016FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
   • Aug 2016FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
   • Aug 2016FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
   • Aug 2016Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
   • Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
   • Jun 2024Ask HN: How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer?

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2. 202
   

   Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach

   Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2017

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   • Nov 2020Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach
   • Nov 2022Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach: Taleb (2017)
   • Dec 2017The Data That Threatened to Break Physics
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Nov 2020Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?

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3. 203
   

   Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation

   Marc G. Bellemare et al. · 2016

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   • Jun 2016Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation
   • Jun 2016Deep Mind Playing Montezuma's Revenge with Intrinsic Motivation [video]
   • Jun 2016Deep Mind Playing Montezuma's Revenge with Intrinsic Motivation [video]
   • Jun 2016Deep Mind Playing Montezuma's Revenge with Intrinsic Motivation [video]
   • Sep 2017Artificial Intelligence Uses Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
   • Jul 2018Learning ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ from a single demonstration

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4. 204
   

   Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter

   Matko Bošnjak et al. · 2016

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   • Jan 2018Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (2016)
   • May 2016Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter
   • Jul 2016Teaching an AI to write Python code with Python code
   • Jul 2016The future is fewer people writing code?
   • Jul 2016How AI based programming could work
   • Jan 2018Linear logic and deep learning [pdf]
   • Aug 2022Differentiable programming from scratch

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5. 205
   

   Text Understanding from Scratch

   Xiang Zhang, Yann LeCun · 2015

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   • Feb 2015Text Understanding from Scratch Using Temporal Convolutional Networks
   • Mar 2015Text Understanding from Scratch [pdf]
   • Feb 2017Text Understanding from Scratch (2015)
   • Mar 2015A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors
   • Jun 2016DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
   • Jun 2016What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?
   • Apr 2018IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)

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6. 206
   

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

   Altaf Shaik et al. · 2015

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   • 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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7. 207
   

   Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks

   Michael Schwarz et al. · 2017

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   • Mar 2017Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks
   • Mar 2017Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks
   • Mar 2017Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest
   • Mar 2017CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines
   • May 2018Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing
   • Jun 2022Hertzbleed Attack

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8. 208
   

   Deep Learning and the Information Bottleneck Principle

   Naftali Tishby, Noga Zaslavsky · 2015

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   • 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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9. 209
   

   A Tour of Reinforcement Learning: The View from Continuous Control

   Benjamin Recht · 2018

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   • Jul 2018Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
   • Jul 2018An Introduction to Mathematical Optimal Control Theory [pdf]
   • Feb 2019Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]
   • Jan 2021Algorithms for Decision Making

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10. 210
    

    Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization

    Taesung Park et al. · 2019

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    • Mar 2019Nvidia AI turns sketches into photorealistic landscapes in seconds
    • Mar 2019Nvidia’s GauGAN Turns Doodles into Stunning, Photorealistic Landscapes
    • Feb 2020Understanding GauGAN Part 1
    • Jun 2021Nvidia Canvas

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11. 211
    

    Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset the Penultimate Backpropagator

    Fei Wang et al. · 2018

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    • Feb 2020Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
    • May 2018Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
    • Aug 2019Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset, Penultimate Backpropagator
    • Nov 2018Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf]
    • Feb 2019What Is Differentiable Programming?
    • Feb 2019What Is Differentiable Programming?
    • Feb 2021Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

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12. 212
    

    A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks

    Zonghan Wu et al. · 2019

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    • Jan 2019A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks (2019)
    • Jan 2019Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications
    • Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
    • Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
    • May 2022Beyond message passing: A physics-inspired paradigm for graph neural networks

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13. 213
    

    Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle

    Tim Menzies et al. · 2016

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    • Sep 2017Revisiting Cost-To-Fix of Defects Throughout the Lifecycle
    • Apr 2019Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? [pdf]
    • Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
    • Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
    • Jul 2021The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist
    • Feb 2025Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

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14. 214
    

    Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data

    H. Brendan McMahan et al. · 2016

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    • May 2017Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data
    • Apr 2017Machine learning without centralized training data
    • Apr 2017Machine learning without centralized training data
    • Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
    • Apr 2023Thumb-Key: a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs

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15. 215
    

    Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition

    W. Xiong et al. · 2016

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    • Oct 2016Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition
    • Oct 2016Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
    • Oct 2016Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
    • Aug 2017Conversational Speech Recognition System [pdf]
    • Oct 2020AI outperforms humans in speech recognition

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16. 216
    

    Document Embedding with Paragraph Vectors

    Andrew M. Dai et al. · 2015

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    • Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
    • Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
    • Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
    • Nov 2025Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings

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17. 217
    

    Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance

    Davide Fucci et al. · 2018

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    • Apr 2019Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
    • Jul 2019What I Want from a Type System (2016)
    • Mar 2020Ask HN: What benefits can I provide to improve employee’s sleeping habits?
    • Oct 2022I’m taking some time away from Comma

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18. 218
    

    Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/'Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid

    Andreas M. Hein et al. · 2017

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    • Nov 2017Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid
    • Sep 2022Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua [pdf]
    • Dec 2017Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
    • Dec 2017Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
    • Aug 2020Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
    • Jul 2024Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample

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19. 219
    

    A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

    Adam Santoro et al. · 2017

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    • Jun 2017Relational Reasoning with Neural Networks
    • Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2023DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

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20. 220
    

    BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains

    Linxing Preston Jiang et al. · 2018

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    • Sep 2018BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration
    • Oct 2018BrainNet: A Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains
    • Oct 2018BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface
    • Jul 2019Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface
    • Apr 2021Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?
    • Aug 2022Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

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21. 221
    

    Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

    Zhenghao Hu et al. · 2018

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    • Aug 2018Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
    • Apr 2022Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier (2018)
    • Jan 2021Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
    • Aug 2018Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?
    • Feb 2021The U.S. Spent $2.2M on Security System That Wasn’t Implemented
    • Jul 2022On the use of a life (2020)

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22. 222
    

    A Fast x86 Implementation of Select

    Prashant Pandey et al. · 2017

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    • Oct 2018A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
    • Jun 2017A Fast X86 Implementation of Select
    • May 2020Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries [pdf]
    • Jun 2021The NSA Instruction (2019)
    • Mar 2025Succinct data structures

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23. 223
    

    Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex

    Jeff Hawkins, Subutai Ahmad · 2015

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    • Nov 2015Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
    • Nov 2015Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
    • Jun 2019Ask HN: New Neural Network Primitives?
    • Apr 2022How to Pursue a Career in Brain-Based AI

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24. 224
    

    Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks

    Jasper Snoek et al. · 2015

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    • Sep 2015Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks
    • Feb 2015Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks
    • Dec 2015Likelihood for Gaussian Processes
    • Jun 2016Computer Vision Research: The deep “depression”
    • Jan 2019A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

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25. 225
    

    Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimization through Reversible Learning

    Dougal Maclaurin et al. · 2015

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    • Feb 2016Gradient-Based Hyperparameter Optimization Through Reversible Learning
    • May 2015Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python
    • Oct 2019Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
    • Jun 2025How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward

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