Hacker Papers
- 01
On proof and progress in mathematics
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2009On proof and progress in mathematics
- Sep 2026Proof and Progress in Mathematics (1994)
- Aug 2012What do Mathematicians Do?
- Nov 2009A proposal on patent reform
- Aug 2013I hate the Pumping Lemma
- Nov 2014Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why?
- Oct 2017Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
- Jul 2021Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research
- Nov 2023The Sokal Hoax
- Aug 2026Mathematics in the Age of AI
- Oct 2026The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
- 02
Jewish Problems
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2011Jewish problems
- Oct 2017These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing (2011)
- Jan 2016Jewish problems (2011)
- Feb 2012Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe
- Nov 2013Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy
- Jun 2018Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities
- Jul 2020Ridiculous Math Problems
- Sep 2020Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
- Jun 2022The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)
- Feb 2024David Hahn, the 'radioactive boy scout' who tried to build a nuclear reactor (2022)
- May 2026Why American Parents Send Their Kids to 'Russian Math' (2017)
- 03
Are Black Hole Starships Possible
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2009The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf]
- Oct 2016Are Black Hole Starships Possible (2009) [pdf]
- Mar 2023Are Black Hole Starships Possible?
- Jun 2011Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
- Dec 2011Sending a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
- Nov 2013Interstellar travel: Starship troupers
- Apr 2015First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
- Jul 2018Timeline of the far future
- Nov 2019New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole
- May 2022Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
- Nov 2025Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN
- 04
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
- Oct 2017Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- Aug 2016Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Aug 2018Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
- Dec 2018Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
- Jan 2022Intuition is a “superpower”
- Apr 2022The singularity is close?
- Mar 2023And yet It Understands
- 05
Meta Math! The Quest for Omega
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2010Book review: The Limits of Mathematics by Gregory Chaitin
- Aug 2013Digital physics
- Apr 2014Far From 'Infinitesimal': A Mathematical Paradox's Role In History
- Apr 2015When is proof by contradiction necessary?
- Apr 2016On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe
- Oct 2017Ask HN: How and where can I publish my research on AI as a college dropout?
- Sep 2022How Big Is Infinity?
- Feb 2024Floats Are Weird
- 06
How real are real numbers?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2017How real are real numbers? (2004)
- Aug 2020How real are real numbers? (2004)
- Feb 2019How real are real numbers?
- Nov 2016A One-Line Proof of the Infinitude of Primes
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- May 2019Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (1947)
- Aug 2020An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]
- Dec 2021Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
- Jan 2023An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice
- Aug 2025God created the real numbers
- 07
The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Jun 2014Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
- Jan 2017The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Jun 2017What Is Mathematics and What Should It Be? [pdf]
- Oct 2019Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes
- Mar 2020Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
- Mar 2020Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
- Oct 2020Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
- 08
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2013Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
- Nov 2013Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
- Dec 2013How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
- Jan 2014Why Bitcoin Matters
- Jun 2014It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork
- Jul 2015Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares
- Oct 2015Bitcoin-NG: A Secure, Faster, Better Blockchain
- Sep 2017Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
- Feb 2018Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
- Apr 2018A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
- 09
Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science'
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2015Review of Stephen Wolfram’s Book a New Kind of Science by Scott Aaronson (2002)
- Jun 2011Alpha Geek
- Aug 2013Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
- Feb 2016Black Hole Tech?
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Mar 2023Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not? Well, It’s Complicated
- Dec 2023Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics
- Jul 2024An approach to the fundamental theory of physics
- 10
On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits [pdf]
- Mar 2017On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming
- Nov 2015Increased intelligence is a myth so far (2014)
- Dec 2015The cult of genius?
- Apr 2016This is for PZ Myers
- Mar 2017Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA
- May 2017Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
- Jul 2017China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)
- Jul 2020Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]
- 11
Two notes on notation
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Two notes on notation (1992)
- Jun 2019Donald E. Knuth: Two notes on notation (1992)
- Jun 2026Two notes on notation (Knuth, 1992)
- May 2013PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
- Apr 20140^0
- Apr 2015Defining zero factorial
- Jun 2016A Quirky Function
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Oct 2017Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
- Nov 2019A History of APL in Fifty Functions (2016)
- Apr 2021Floor, Ceiling, Bracket
- 12
Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity,
- Aug 2019Driven by Compression Progress (Schmidhuber, 2008)
- Apr 2023Driven By Compression Progress (2008)
- Sep 2017Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
- Oct 2017Intelligence Reconsidered
- Mar 2021Information Is Surprise (2015)
- Mar 2021Hutter Prize
- Jul 2024Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- Sep 2026Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
- 13
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Precautionary Principle (As Applied to GMOs) [Taleb et al]
- Nov 2014The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- Jul 2015The Mathiness of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Nov 2016We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
- Mar 2018Why I’m quitting GMO research
- Apr 2018EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
- Dec 2018Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
- 14
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Jan 2018Proposal for Proquints
- Jul 2020Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Dec 2014Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku
- May 2015Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines
- Sep 2018How to Name a Baby (2013)
- Nov 2019Bitspeak converts hex strings to pronounceable words
- Feb 2020Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
- Sep 2020Readable Pointers
- 15
The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]
- May 2008The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
- May 2024The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)
- Oct 2009Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments?
- Nov 2019Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
- Apr 2022Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
- Oct 2023The Wait Equation and AI Investment
- Jan 20254.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Jan 2026Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
- 16
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2011Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
- Nov 2011Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol
- Nov 2012Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]
- Feb 2013Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins
- Apr 2013Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State
- Jan 2014Bitcoin 2.0 explained
- 17
Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning
Hacker News threads
- 18
twister - a P2P microblogging platform
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2013Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT
- Dec 2013Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
- Jan 2015Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
- Mar 2015Twister – Decentralized p2p microblogging
- Dec 2015Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
- Jun 2018Show HN: P2P decentralized messaging application over Bitcoin Cash
- 19
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Aug 2014A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Mar 2019A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
- Jun 2017When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing
- Oct 2021Consistent Hashing for Dummies
- Mar 2022S2: Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere
- May 2024Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)
- Sep 2026Saving another 100TB of RAM
- 20
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
- 21
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
Hacker News threads
- 22
Generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain - SmoothLife
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Generalization of Conway's “Game of Life” to a Continuous Domain
- Oct 2012Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
- May 2018Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy
- Jun 2021ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
- Nov 2022In Game of Life any buildable pattern can be constructed by colliding 15 gliders
- Jan 2024Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns
- 23
Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 24
Seven Trees in One
Hacker News threads
- 25
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
- Jun 2017Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)
- Jul 2026Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Oct 2014The octave – history of a discovery
- Mar 2016Show HN: 19 Tone Equal Temperament Piano in Web Audio
- Sep 2016Music theory for nerds
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- May 2020Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company
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