Hacker News Papers

1. Linux Productivity Tools

usenix.org • 1234 points

2. Calculus Made Easy

gutenberg.org • 424 points

3. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition

users.aalto.fi • 393 points

4. Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated

arxiv.org • 322 points

5. 2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork

sigact.org • 297 points

6. A Mathematical Theory of Communication

people.math.harvard.edu • 194 points • 1 citation

7. Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem

arxiv.org • 201 points

8. Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science

cs.cmu.edu • 179 points

9. Draft of Executive Order on Online Censorship

kateklonick.com • 148 points • 1 citation

10. Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

sciencemadness.org • 143 points • 1 citation

11. Differential Forms and Integration

math.ucla.edu • 143 points • 1 citation

12. The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature

gilkalai.files.wordpress.com • 136 points

13. Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks

arxiv.org • 120 points • 1 citation

14. Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity

joshuatdean.com • 123 points

15. Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning

arxiv.org • 110 points • 1 citation

16. History of Lisp

jmc.stanford.edu • 101 points • 1 citation

17. Borg: The Next Generation

eurosys2020.org • 104 points

18. 40-60% of the unexposed produce Covid-19 antibodies due to earlier cold exposure

cell.com • 95 points

19. The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages

arxiv.org • 94 points

20. Intelligence Without Reason

ijcai.org • 86 points

21. In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

raft.github.io • 81 points

22. Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery

mboehme.github.io • 77 points

23. How to Run Algorithmic Information Theory on a Computer

arxiv.org • 73 points

24. Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth

faculty.haas.berkeley.edu • 72 points

25. Why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language?

nischalshrestha.me • 67 points

26. Ironies of Automation

ise.ncsu.edu • 66 points

27. EU-Commissioned Study Proposes European Firewall

europarl.europa.eu • 56 points • 2 citations

28. Against Set Theory

ontology.buffalo.edu • 55 points • 2 citations

29. Breaking RSA Security with a Low Noise D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Annealer

arxiv.org • 63 points

30. Ohio Prison Death Updates

coronavirus.ohio.gov • 60 points

31. Graph2Plan: Learning Floorplan Generation from Layout Graphs

arxiv.org • 55 points

32. On Iteration and Recursion

cs.utexas.edu • 54 points

33. Lost and Found: Stopping Bluetooth Finders from Leaking Private Information

arxiv.org • 54 points

34. Six Signs of Scientism

uta.edu • 52 points

35. The Shoulders of Giants

static1.squarespace.com • 50 points

36. Tesla vs Alameda County

wholemars.com • 50 points

37. What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number?

nsl.com • 47 points

38. BaseSAFE: Baseband SAnitized Fuzzing Through Emulation

arxiv.org • 42 points

39. The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is lower than the classical

arxiv.org • 34 points • 2 citations

40. Insignificant Choice Polynomial Time

arxiv.org • 39 points

41. Fed paper says 1918 pandemic led to German austerity and extremism

newyorkfed.org • 38 points

42. A Survey on Tree Edit Distance and Related Problems

grfia.dlsi.ua.es • 37 points

43. COBS: A Compact Bit-Sliced Signature Index

bingmann.github.io • 35 points

44. Retrofitting Parallelism onto OCaml

arxiv.org • 35 points

45. Verified sequential malloc/free

cs.princeton.edu • 31 points

46. An Overview of the Spring System

cs.fsu.edu • 29 points

47. The History of Standard ML (HOPL IV)

smlfamily.github.io • 28 points

48. A World Without Referees

stat.cmu.edu • 25 points • 1 citation

49. Atari Floppy Disk Copy Protection

info-coach.fr • 26 points

50. Are you living in a computer simulation?

simulation-argument.com • 25 points

51. Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries

vigna.di.unimi.it • 22 points

52. Conditional Move for Shell Script Acceleration

tom7.org • 21 points

53. Zoom Publishes Draft Design of End-to-End Encryption Offering

github.com • 20 points

54. The district court ruled that brown recluse spiders are insects

media.ca11.uscourts.gov • 19 points

55. Remdesivir for severe Covid-19: A randomised double-blind placebo-control trial

thelancet.com • 19 points

56. Our approach to the future relationship with the EU

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk • 18 points

57. Searching for a Black Hole in the Outer Solar System

arxiv.org • 16 points

58. Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text

arxiv.org • 15 points

59. Ornament and Crime

web.archive.org • 15 points

60. NSA: Selecting and Safely Using Collaboration Services for Telework

media.defense.gov • 13 points

61. Spike mutation reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2

biorxiv.org • 12 points • 1 citation

62. JPEG XL White Paper just published

ds.jpeg.org • 11 points

63. Markov Brains: A Technical Introduction

arxiv.org • 10 points

64. Reversing Age(Plasma halves epigenetic ages of blood, heart, liver)

biorxiv.org • 8 points • 2 citations

65. Breaking Thunderbolt Protocol Security: Vulnerability Report

thunderspy.io • 8 points • 1 citation

66. Judge orders FCC to provide net neutrality records

courtlistener.com • 8 points

67. Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Evidence from the London Underground

economics.ox.ac.uk • 8 points

68. SARS-CoV-2 RNA in primary sewage as a leading indicator of Covid-19 outbreak

medrxiv.org • 8 points

69. Resilient Web Design

resilientwebdesign.s3.amazonaws.com • 8 points

70. Study: Microsoft Saw Bugs Decrease 60-90% From TDD With 15-35% Time Cost

microsoft.com • 7 points

71. Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It

cs.utah.edu • 7 points

72. Effect of ultraviolet germicidal lights installed in office ventilation

healthdesign.org • 7 points

73. Bumper Sticker Computer Science

bowdoin.edu • 7 points

74. Face masks in public – an appeal for caution in policy

dora.dmu.ac.uk • 6 points • 1 citation

75. Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction

cs.cmu.edu • 6 points • 1 citation

76. National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

cset.georgetown.edu • 6 points

77. Detecting Optimization Bugs in Database Engines

manuelrigger.at • 6 points

78. MMR Vaccine Link to Covid-19: Fewer Deaths and Milder Cases

world.org • 6 points

79. Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers

microsoft.com • 5 points

80. Pandemic, Shutdown and Consumer Spending: Lessons from Scandinavian Policy

arxiv.org • 5 points

81. Technology Radar Vol.22

assets.thoughtworks.com • 5 points

82. What is Common Sense

jmc.stanford.edu • 5 points

83. Train One Network and Specialize It for Efficient Deployment

arxiv.org • 5 points

84. On µ-Kernel Construction

os.itec.kit.edu • 5 points

85. Sending signals in open source: Evidence from a natural experiment

johanneswachs.com • 5 points

86. ASAP: As Static As Possiblememory management

cl.cam.ac.uk • 4 points • 2 citations

87. A Metric Learning Reality Check

arxiv.org • 4 points • 1 citation

88. Performance Engineering, Lecture 1: Introduction and Matrix Multiplication

ocw.mit.edu • 4 points • 1 citation

89. People’s Republic of China Targeting of Covid-19 Research Organizations

cisa.gov • 4 points • 1 citation

90. AI economist: Improving equality and productivity with AI-driven tax policies

arxiv.org • 4 points • 1 citation