Hacker Papers
- 01
Neural Turing Machines
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Neural Turing Machines [pdf]
- Oct 2014Neural Turing Machines
- May 2016Neural Turing Machines (2014)
- Feb 2015A Brief Overview of Deep Learning
- Jul 2015The Cyborg Compulsion
- Jan 2016Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (1996)
- Jul 2016How AI based programming could work
- Jul 2017The Limitations of Deep Learning
- Jun 2020GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
- Jan 2023GPT-3: Techniques to improve reliability
- Oct 2026Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
- 02
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
- 03
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf]
- Nov 2016Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)
- Jun 2014Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)
- Jun 2015Category Theory for Scientists and Engineers (2013) [pdf]
- Nov 2017What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]
- Jun 2018Logic is Metaphysics (2011) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language
- Sep 2020Programming with Categories
- Nov 2022Why mathematicians study knots
- Feb 2025Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets
- Oct 2026How to Formalize All of Mathematics
- 04
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2012Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Dec 2019New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
- Jan 2021Are Experts Real?
- Jul 2023Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
- Oct 2024Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
- Sep 2026DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
- Oct 2026CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
- 05
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Jan 2015A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
- Jan 2015Image Kernels Explained Visually
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018For AI to thrive, it must explain itself
- Sep 2023Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool
- Mar 2024How do neural networks learn?
- Oct 2026Feature Visualization – How neural networks build understanding of images (2017)
- 06
Ultimate physical limits to computation
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]
- Jul 2011Ultimate physical limits to computation
- Feb 2018Ultimate physical limits to computation
- Nov 2010128-bit storage: are you high?
- Apr 2011Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work
- Oct 2012The game of life emulated in the game of life
- Jun 2015Universal Limits on Computation (2004) [pdf]
- Apr 2016Bremermann's limit
- Jul 2019First 3D Nanotube and RRAM ICs Come Out of Foundry
- Jan 2021Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
- Oct 2022Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln
- 07
Dancing links
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Don Knuth: Dancing Links
- May 2009Dancing links, by Knuth
- Aug 2013Knuth's Dancing Links Algorithm
- Feb 2013All N-Rooks algorithm and a linear time N-Queens solution
- Jan 2015The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp
- Dec 2017Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
- Sep 2019Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)
- Jan 2021 Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
- Nov 2022In defense of linked lists
- Sep 2025Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell
- Sep 2026Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
- 08
The World as a Hologram
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2026The World as a Hologram
- Jun 2018The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
- Sep 2019Simulation of what a massive black hole would look like
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- 09
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
- 10
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
- 11
The Mathematical Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
- Apr 2009MUH: The Universe is a Mathematical Structure
- Jan 2018The Mathematical Universe (2007)
- Oct 2010USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' (Feb 2010)
- May 2014When does a physical system compute?
- Oct 2014The Grand Illusion: Does time have a future?
- Nov 2016Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring
- Mar 2019Sub-Acute Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking
- Jun 2022Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read?
- Aug 2022Why does anything exist?
- Sep 2026Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
- 12
Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look
- Sep 2022Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look (2014)
- Aug 2026Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look
- Jul 2016There Is No Distinctly Scientific Method
- Oct 2016So You Want to Learn Physics
- Jan 2017Why read old philosophy?
- Nov 2017Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire
- Jan 2022Why Quantum Mechanics?
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- Jun 2025Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018)
- 13
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
- Jan 2019Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- May 2014Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- Dec 2014Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
- Nov 2015Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Dec 2023Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013
- Aug 2026Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
- 14
A theory of regularity structures
Hacker News threads
- 15
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
- 16
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
- 17
There are no particles, there are only fields
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jun 2024There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jul 2026There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Sep 2016Struggles with the Continuum
- Nov 2017Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (2011)
- Jul 2019What’s Going on During Wave Function ‘Collapse’
- Jul 2019The Trouble with Many Worlds
- Dec 2020Thirty Years of ‘Against Measurement’
- Sep 2024What Is a Particle? (2020)
- Feb 2026Cosmologically Unique IDs
- Jun 2026How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
- 18
A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016[Legg, Hutter] a Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (2007)
- Nov 2022A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Dec 2021Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- May 2023Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil
- Oct 2023"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- 19
From Philosophy to Program Size
Hacker News threads
- 20
Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
- Oct 2020Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)
- Sep 2012Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
- Aug 2010Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious
- Jul 2014Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
- Apr 2017Bitcoin Mining is NP-hard (2014)
- Apr 2019P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
- Feb 2020It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
- Apr 2021Nassim Taleb says Bitcoin is an open Ponzi scheme and a failed currency
- Apr 2024AI used well can restore middle class jobs [pdf]
- Jul 2026Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP
- 21
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2016New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything
- Oct 2017The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Jun 2026Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
- 22
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
- 23
Nonlinear quantum mechanics implies polynomial-time solution for NP-complete and #P problems
Hacker News threads
- May 2010What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- Feb 2011A Deepness In The Sky
- Sep 2015You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- 24
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)
- 25
A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes, Incompleteness and Fixed Points
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes - Noson S. Yanofsky [2003]
- May 2026Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes (2003)
- Nov 2015The Hardest Logic Puzzle: A step-by-step guide to true, false, and random
- Apr 2020John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
- May 2020Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt
- Jul 2021How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
- Jun 2023Basics of Proofs [pdf]
- Sep 2023Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
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