Hacker News Papers

1. Surveillance on UK council websites

brave.com • 512 points • 1 citation

2. Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov

biorxiv.org • 287 points • 2 citations

3. Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes

web.stanford.edu • 242 points

4. Technical report into Jeff Bezos phone hack

assets.documentcloud.org • 218 points

5. Learning technical writing using the engineering method

cs.tufts.edu • 215 points

6. Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 214 points

7. U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions from CGT

coincenter.org • 204 points

8. The Art of Powerful Questions

umanitoba.ca • 197 points

9. USB 4.0

usb.org • 197 points

10. How to build a search engine with common Unix tools

iaria.org • 197 points

11. Is a Dataframe Just a Table?

plateau-workshop.org • 189 points

12. Simple Sabotage Field Manual

cia.gov • 187 points

13. Millions of Tiny Databases

assets.amazon.science • 172 points

14. How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists

foundationwebsite.org • 148 points

15. Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis

airpower.airforce.gov.au • 144 points

16. The strange properties of the infinite power tower

arxiv.org • 139 points

17. Unix System Programming with Standard ML

mlton.org • 127 points • 1 citation

18. Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth

inf.ethz.ch • 134 points

19. Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention

arxiv.org • 133 points

20. Demystifying Differentiable Programming

arxiv.org • 109 points

21. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

algorithmicbotany.org • 103 points

22. Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results

abc.xyz • 91 points • 1 citation

23. Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

arxiv.org • 89 points • 1 citation

24. MSL: A New Programming Language for Text Editing and Fact Verification

mimix.io • 94 points

25. Preliminary assessment of the International Spreading Risk of Coronavirus

mobs-lab.org • 86 points

26. Machine Unlearning

arxiv.org • 86 points

27. The Byzantine Generals Problem

lamport.azurewebsites.net • 85 points

28. A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation

paperhub.s3.amazonaws.com • 80 points

29. Debugging C++ Coroutines

open-std.org • 79 points

30. Cyborgs and Space

web.mit.edu • 79 points

31. Some Boeing 737s can't land on some runways with true heading 270

rgl.faa.gov • 75 points

32. A Taxonomy of Privacy

law.upenn.edu • 74 points

33. The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population

web.stanford.edu • 73 points

34. Petri Nets Are Monoids

core.ac.uk • 70 points

35. DHS plans urgently needed to address identified challenges before 2020 elections

gao.gov • 64 points • 1 citation

36. MOV is Turing-complete

drwho.virtadpt.net • 65 points

37. Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

s21.q4cdn.com • 59 points • 1 citation

38. ABI – Now or Never

open-std.org • 63 points

39. The problem of increasing human energy

aetherwizard.com • 60 points

40. Design: the key to writing and advising a one-draft thesis

cs.tufts.edu • 58 points

41. Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in the Linux Kernel

outflux.net • 55 points

42. Actions needed to address cybersecurity risks facing the electric grid

gao.gov • 54 points

43. Associations between intelligence and childlessness in men

duo.uio.no • 53 points

44. A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals

dpmms.cam.ac.uk • 48 points

45. Practical file system design with the Be File System

nobius.org • 47 points

46. Show HN: My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter)

mlpowered.com • 47 points

47. Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions

cs.utah.edu • 47 points

48. The optimal way of folding a bond notebook page into a bookmark

arxiv.org • 46 points

49. Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities

media.defense.gov • 45 points

50. Handwritten PDP-6 hardware log from the Stanford AI Laboratory

stacks.stanford.edu • 43 points

51. Iodine: Verifying constant-time execution of hardware

usenix.org • 40 points

52. Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 38 points

53. Engineering Faster Sorters for Small Sets of Items

arxiv.org • 38 points

54. Coronavirus: Early estimate of epidemiology and epidemic predictions

medrxiv.org • 29 points • 1 citation

55. In Search of Types

cs.kent.ac.uk • 31 points

56. Meaningful Availability

usenix.org • 31 points

57. Bicycle Attacks: Quantifying the Damage of Widespread Password Length Leakage

arxiv.org • 30 points

58. Making Sense of Asynchrony in Interactive Data Visualizations

arxiv.org • 30 points

59. Up to 2B times acceleration of scientific simulations with deep neural search

arxiv.org • 29 points

60. WiFinger: Leveraging commodity WiFi for finger gesture recognition

ww2.cs.fsu.edu • 28 points

61. How can you be so certain?

open-std.org • 25 points • 1 citation

62. Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language

doc.cat-v.org • 25 points

63. Nuclear Power: Game over

eleceng.adelaide.edu.au • 24 points

64. Efficient static checking of library updates

asankhaya.github.io • 24 points

65. Running a realistic factory honeypot to capture real threats

documents.trendmicro.com • 23 points

66. Novel Coronavirus: Highly Contagious and More Infectious Than Initially Est

medrxiv.org • 23 points

67. What is ABI, and What Should WG21 Do About It?

open-std.org • 21 points

68. Dependent Type Systems as Macros

ccs.neu.edu • 17 points • 1 citation

69. Teach Yourself Logic 2020:A Study Guide

logicmatters.net • 18 points

70. A Multi-Model Abstract Data Type and Economic Engine

rredux.com • 18 points

71. Proposed Fifth Fundamental Force

arxiv.org • 17 points

72. Dijkstra: Philips and I – a few snapshots

cs.utexas.edu • 16 points

73. Run Chart Rules for Interpretation

qihub.scot.nhs.uk • 15 points

74. 2020 State of Malware Report

resources.malwarebytes.com • 11 points

75. New Kid on the Web: A Study on The Prevalence of WebAssembly in the Wild

sec.cs.tu-bs.de • 11 points

76. The Bloom Tree

arxiv.org • 11 points

77. Coronavirus R naught may be closer to 3.1 than 2.2

medrxiv.org • 11 points

78. Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

web.stanford.edu • 10 points

79. The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses

stripe.com • 9 points

80. A Gentle Introduction to Deep Learning for Graphs

arxiv.org • 9 points

81. The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence

arxiv.org • 9 points

82. Self-Training with Noisy Student Improves ImageNet Classification

arxiv.org • 9 points

83. Bio-Inspired Hashing for Unsupervised Similarity Search (With John Hopfield)

arxiv.org • 8 points

84. Mankiw: A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Monetary Theory

scholar.harvard.edu • 8 points

85. Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source

arxiv.org • 8 points

86. Safe Systems Programming in Rust: The Promise and the Challenge

robbertkrebbers.nl • 8 points

87. A Security Analysis of Voatz

internetpolicy.mit.edu • 7 points

88. The Compact Merkle Multiproof

arxiv.org • 7 points

89. Trusted Automated Exchange of Intelligence Information (Taxii)

docs.oasis-open.org • 6 points

90. The Use of Knowledge in Society

bev.berkeley.edu • 6 points

91. Elements of Scheduling

arxiv.org • 6 points

92. The Rise and Fall of Empires

people.uncw.edu • 6 points

93. In Re Carter W. Page: Order Regarding Handling and Disposition of Information

fisc.uscourts.gov • 6 points

94. Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 6 points

95. Tech in 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Benedict Evans Presentation

static1.squarespace.com • 6 points

96. Assessing the Type Annotation Burden

cse.unl.edu • 5 points

97. Albert Camus: The Plague

antilogicalism.com • 5 points

98. Building WebGPU with Rust

fosdem.org • 4 points • 1 citation