Hacker News Papers

1. Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning

cis.upenn.edu • 795 points

2. Information Theory for Intelligent People

tuvalu.santafe.edu • 443 points

3. Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval

bppe.ca.gov • 337 points

4. Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites

arxiv.org • 334 points

5. Kubernetes Security Audit

github.com • 260 points

6. Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction

cs.cmu.edu • 230 points

7. Laws of Showrunning

okbjgm.weebly.com • 186 points

8. Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

library.sciencemadness.org • 150 points

9. A Pixel Is Not A Little Square

alvyray.com • 143 points

10. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results

abc.xyz • 127 points

11. Survival in chessland

tom7.org • 126 points

12. Programming as Theory Building

pages.cs.wisc.edu • 115 points • 1 citation

13. Why Google Poses a Serious Threat to Democracy, and How to End That Threat

judiciary.senate.gov • 114 points • 1 citation

14. Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style

cs.umd.edu • 113 points • 1 citation

15. Mitre Systems Engineering Guide

mitre.org • 119 points

16. Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks That Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone

spqr.eecs.umich.edu • 96 points • 1 citation

17. Wavelets

cybertester.com • 96 points

18. The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens

arxiv.org • 92 points

19. Banding in Games: A Noisy Rant

loopit.dk • 91 points

20. Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches

arxiv.org • 90 points

21. The Dark Ages of AI

pdfs.semanticscholar.org • 82 points • 1 citation

22. The Mathematics of Text Structure

arxiv.org • 87 points

23. Can we survive technology?

geosci.uchicago.edu • 79 points

24. Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds

ipo.lbl.gov • 72 points

25. The Paradoxical Effects of Pursuing Positive Emotion

ocf.berkeley.edu • 66 points

26. An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction

scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu • 59 points

27. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari

arxiv.org • 57 points

28. Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space

arxiv.org • 55 points

29. General Balanced Trees

user.it.uu.se • 55 points

30. The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Finance

iaqf.org • 54 points

31. A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste

worrydream.com • 50 points • 1 citation

32. KiloGrams: Large N-Grams for Malware Classification

arxiv.org • 51 points

33. Benchmarking TPU, GPU, and CPU Platforms for Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 50 points

34. Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer

zero.sci-hub.se • 50 points

35. Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% to $63.4B

ir.aboutamazon.com • 46 points

36. That's Interesting

info.marshall.usc.edu • 45 points

37. Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture

cs.unm.edu • 39 points

38. Turning the Tide on Climate Change with Green Sand Beaches

projectvesta.org • 38 points

39. Safecracking for the computer scientist

mattblaze.org • 36 points

40. A brief tour of differential privacy

cs.cmu.edu • 35 points

41. The Logic of Scientific Discovery

strangebeautiful.com • 35 points

42. Hofstadter – On Number Numbness

gwern.net • 35 points

43. Simulating Futures in Extended Common Lisp

ntrs.nasa.gov • 34 points

44. Deep Learning Lecture Slides

glouppe.github.io • 32 points

45. How Did Paul Krugman Get It So Wrong?

faculty.chicagobooth.edu • 31 points

46. The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes

laputan.org • 31 points

47. Douglas-Quaid – Open-Source Image Matching Library

arxiv.org • 27 points

48. MixNet: Mixed Depthwise Convolutional Kernels

arxiv.org • 22 points

49. Ethically Aligned Design

standards.ieee.org • 22 points

50. Magnetically Accelerated Plasmoid (MAP) Thruster

erps.spacegrant.org • 21 points

51. The Nut CPU (HP Calculator CPU)

hp41.deringenieur.net • 20 points

52. Object-oriented programming in C: a case study of Git and the Linux kernel

matheustavares.gitlab.io • 18 points

53. Large-Scale-Exploit of GitHub Repository Metadata and Preventive Measures

arxiv.org • 17 points

54. Interactive coin offerings

arxiv.org • 16 points

55. The War Against Immigrants: Trumps Tech Tools Powered By Palantir

mijente.net • 14 points • 1 citation

56. Time to Measure the Pi

crin.eng.uts.edu.au • 15 points

57. Juggling: Theory and Practice

solipsys.co.uk • 14 points

58. The Expanding News Desert

cislm.org • 14 points

59. Disentangling Propagation and Generation for Video Prediction

arxiv.org • 12 points

60. Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

arxiv.org • 11 points

61. A Simple Unpredictable Random Number Generator

pdfs.semanticscholar.org • 11 points

62. A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer

roboticsproceedings.org • 10 points

63. Fundamental?

fqxi.org • 10 points

64. Twisting the Triad: Evolution of the Dolphin Smalltalk MVP App Framework

object-arts.com • 8 points • 2 citations

65. Monokle: The Mobile Surveillance Tooling of the Special Technology Center

lookout.com • 9 points

66. In the beginning was the command line

faculty.georgetown.edu • 9 points

67. A better zip bomb [WOOT '19 Paper]

usenix.org • 9 points

68. Accurate and Infinite Prime Prediction from Novel Quasi-Prime Analytical

arxiv.org • 7 points • 1 citation

69. ArXiv Is Down

arxiv.org • 7 points

70. Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-Technical Audience

privacytools.seas.harvard.edu • 7 points

71. Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed

nature.com • 6 points

72. Breaking the encryption scheme of the Moscow internet voting system

arxiv.org • 6 points

73. Interim Report into UK Wide Powercut on 9 Aug

ofgem.gov.uk • 6 points

74. Lazy Stream Programming in Prolog

arxiv.org • 6 points

75. A Power Efficient Artificial Neuron Using Superconducting Nanowires

arxiv.org • 5 points • 1 citation

76. Time Series Management Systems: A Survey

arxiv.org • 5 points

77. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

microsoft.com • 5 points

78. Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples

stat.pitt.edu • 5 points

79. Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification

arxiv.org • 5 points

80. A Bibliometric Analysis of Bitcoin Scientific Production

arxiv.org • 5 points

81. Every good regulator of the system must be a model of the system

pespmc1.vub.ac.be • 4 points • 1 citation