Hacker News Papers

1. Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers

encrypto.de • 280 points • 1 citation

2. Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall

energycommerce.house.gov • 265 points

3. Mathematics for Programmers

yurichev.com • 258 points

4. Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court

cases.justia.com • 243 points

5. Extracting firmware from embedded devices

github.com • 215 points

6. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

cdar.berkeley.edu • 190 points • 1 citation

7. Mastering PostgreSQL Administration

momjian.us • 170 points

8. Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages

greenlab.di.uminho.pt • 163 points

9. Java Turns 25 – Whats Next?

oracle.com • 162 points

10. Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?

arxiv.org • 156 points

11. What ‘The Social Dilemma’ Gets Wrong

about.fb.com • 152 points

12. Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails

electionemails2020.org • 136 points

13. Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey

arxiv.org • 116 points

14. Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts

greatdemocracyinitiative.org • 114 points

15. How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof?

gwern.net • 96 points • 1 citation

16. A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving

arxiv.org • 100 points

17. United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report

krebsonsecurity.com • 99 points

18. Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture

nvidia.com • 92 points • 1 citation

19. An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry

res.mdpi.com • 85 points

20. What happened to the Semantic Web?

ht.acm.org • 83 points

21. ResEdit Reference

developer.apple.com • 81 points

22. CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions

cdc.gov • 81 points

23. A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

libros.metabiblioteca.org • 79 points

24. The Hardware Lottery

arxiv.org • 78 points

25. A discretization attack

cr.yp.to • 77 points

26. Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores

arxiv.org • 76 points

27. Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics

biblio.ugent.be • 70 points • 1 citation

28. New York City thinks up to half of restaurants will close permanently

osc.state.ny.us • 71 points

29. Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?

ftp.iza.org • 71 points

30. Probability and Statistics with Applications to Computing

alextsun.com • 70 points

31. NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customization

media.defense.gov • 62 points

32. Think Fast: Tensor Streaming Processor for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads

conferences.computer.org • 61 points

33. The Cost of Software-Based Memory Management Without Virtual Memory

arxiv.org • 59 points

34. Star Tek–Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025

theblackvault.com • 57 points

35. Kautilya Arthashastra and its relevance to Urban Planning Studies

itpi.org.in • 56 points

36. My Father André Weil

ams.org • 52 points

37. ICO investigation into use of personal information and political influence

ico.org.uk • 46 points

38. The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System

lass.cs.umass.edu • 44 points

39. A Machine Learning Primer for Interviews

confetti.ai • 43 points

40. ExGAN: Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples

arxiv.org • 38 points • 1 citation

41. Typeful Programming

lucacardelli.name • 38 points

42. Segmented Addressing Solves the Virtual Cache Synonym Problem

user.eng.umd.edu • 32 points

43. Good Intentions, Bad Inventions: The Four Myths of Healthy Tech

datasociety.net • 32 points

44. Notes Essays–Peter Thiel’s CS183

meetingdelleidee.files.wordpress.com • 25 points

45. Dissertation: Marine Insurance in the Netherlands 1600-1870

research.vu.nl • 24 points

46. Richard Feynman and Computation

cds.cern.ch • 23 points

47. The Conscientious Congressman's Guide to the Electoral Count Act

floridalawreview.com • 23 points

48. Recursive Backtracking

cs.utexas.edu • 22 points

49. Tracking Down Typewriters

site.xavier.edu • 20 points

50. A Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication

arxiv.org • 15 points

51. Quantum Factorization of 143

arxiv.org • 15 points

52. Transcript of Oral History of Bob Metcalfe, Inventor of Ethernet

archive.computerhistory.org • 14 points

53. U.S. House report on investigation of competition in digital markets

judiciary.house.gov • 13 points • 1 citation

54. It's Not Just Size That Matters:Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners

arxiv.org • 10 points • 2 citations

55. 70.6% of people who were infected with Covid-19 “Always” wear masks

cdc.gov • 11 points

56. The Wisdom of Insecurity

antilogicalism.files.wordpress.com • 11 points

57. Facebook AI Survey on “Preserving Integrity in Online Social Networks”

arxiv.org • 10 points

58. The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Story of Gordon Moore

calteches.library.caltech.edu • 10 points

59. EU recommends 1.44M resettlements in 2020 “to fulfil its moral duty”

ec.europa.eu • 9 points

60. Equivalence of Dataflow Graphs via Rewrite Rules Using a Graph-to-Sequence Model

arxiv.org • 8 points

61. EventProp: Backpropagation for Exact Gradients in Spiking Neural Networks

arxiv.org • 8 points

62. U.S. Border Patrol Digital Forensics Programs

dhs.gov • 8 points

63. Rendering the Hellscape of Doom Eternal

advances.realtimerendering.com • 7 points • 1 citation

64. NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

arxiv.org • 7 points • 1 citation

65. SoK: All You Ever Wanted to Know About x86/X64 Binary Disassembly

arxiv.org • 7 points

66. egg: Fast and Extensible E-graphs

arxiv.org • 7 points

67. Other Things Equal

deirdremccloskey.com • 7 points

68. Systems Software Research is Irrelevant

herpolhode.com • 6 points

69. Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets

judiciary.house.gov • 6 points

70. MDN Browser Compatibility Report 2020

mdn-web-dna.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com • 6 points

71. Consumer Reports: EV Owners Spend Half as Much on Maintenance

advocacy.consumerreports.org • 5 points

72. The Libre-SoC Hybrid 3D CPU

static.sched.com • 5 points

73. VPN Comparative Speed Test

av-test.org • 5 points

74. Geometry Types for Graphics Programming

cs.cornell.edu • 5 points

75. Xv6: A simple, Unix-like teaching operating system

pdos.csail.mit.edu • 5 points

76. MStream outperforms scikit-learn algorithms in anomaly detection

arxiv.org • 5 points

77. Programming with Categories (Online Book Draft)

brendanfong.com • 5 points

78. Security analysis of CHERI ISA

github.com • 5 points

79. Grinstead and Snell’s Introduction to Probability

stat.berkeley.edu • 5 points

80. DiffTune: Optimizing CPU Simulator Parameters with Differentiable Surrogates

arxiv.org • 5 points

81. Google vs. Oracle – Oral Arguments Transcript

supremecourt.gov • 4 points • 2 citations