Hacker News Papers

1. US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

supremecourt.gov • 398 points • 1 citation

2. The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 297 points

3. FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store

foundationdb.org • 283 points

4. Cores that don’t count

sigops.org • 180 points

5. Thinking Like Transformers

arxiv.org • 155 points

6. Calculus for Seven Year Olds

mathman.biz • 148 points

7. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

algorithmicbotany.org • 146 points

8. The physics of financial networks

arxiv.org • 128 points • 1 citation

9. “Setting the record straight on Freenode”

techrights.org • 119 points • 1 citation

10. The state of the Linux kernel security

github.com • 124 points

11. A Secure and Formally Verified Linux KVM Hypervisor

nieh.net • 103 points • 2 citations

12. Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks

arxiv.org • 118 points

13. Surreal Numbers – An Introduction

tondering.dk • 110 points

14. Are Angels More Likely Than VCs to Drive Entrepreneurial Experimentation?

static1.squarespace.com • 93 points

15. Predictive Coding Can Do Exact Backpropagation on Any Neural Network

arxiv.org • 88 points

16. Cray-2 Memories

0x07bell.net • 88 points

17. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

inf.ed.ac.uk • 80 points

18. Strategy and Complex Systems

ocw.smithw.org • 80 points

19. No safe level of alcohol for brain health: observational cohort study

medrxiv.org • 64 points

20. Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails

lweb.cfa.harvard.edu • 61 points

21. A Pattern Language

arl.human.cornell.edu • 59 points

22. The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable

cs.cmu.edu • 57 points

23. Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

arxiv.org • 45 points • 1 citation

24. Porting OpenVMS from VAX to Alpha AXP

hpl.hp.com • 45 points

25. Recommendations and Results Organization in Netflix Search

arxiv.org • 44 points

26. Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75k per year

pnas.org • 40 points

27. Unifying Structured Recursion Schemes

cs.ox.ac.uk • 40 points

28. Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar

arxiv.org • 38 points

29. Measuring the Algorithmic Efficiency of Neural Networks

arxiv.org • 36 points

30. Fosshost Is Asking for Help

fosshost.org • 33 points • 1 citation

31. UN doc: military drones may have autonomously ‘hunted down’ and attacked troops

documents-dds-ny.un.org • 34 points

32. Rechanneling Beliefs: How information flows hinder or help democracy

snfagora.jhu.edu • 31 points • 1 citation

33. What every programmer should know about memory

gwern.net • 32 points

34. Can fake news detection be accountable?

perso.uclouvain.be • 32 points

35. How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

salahlibrary.files.wordpress.com • 30 points

36. Bitcoin as an Investment

sec.gov • 29 points

37. Bust-Out Fraud

experian.com • 26 points

38. Mathematics Cheat Sheet

ourway.keybase.pub • 23 points

39. Applying the ABC Metric to C, C++, and Java

softwarerenovation.com • 22 points

40. Guide to building a Ground-Penetrating Radar for educational use

gpradar.eu • 22 points

41. Two notes on notation

arxiv.org • 18 points • 2 citations

42. Reinforcement Learning as One Big Sequence Modeling Problem

arxiv.org • 18 points

43. The Halfword Heap Emulator

erlang-factory.com • 17 points

44. Quantum Computer Datasheet

quantumai.google • 17 points

45. A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction

equitablemath.org • 10 points • 6 citations

46. HeapSafe: Securing Unprotected Heaps in RISC-V

arxiv.org • 14 points

47. Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

sigops.org • 11 points • 1 citation

48. Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years

sigops.org • 11 points

49. Finite Difference Computing with PDEs: A Modern Software Approach

link.springer.com • 11 points

50. Principles for Constructing Better Graphics

byuistats.github.io • 10 points

51. Show HN: I wrote a book about UI

fifty.user-interface.io • 8 points

52. Hamiltonian Cycle Problem is in P

arxiv.org • 8 points

53. Shopify statistics based on 300M products and 600K Shops

blog.shopgram.io • 8 points

54. AMS Notice: The End of Pure Mathematics in Leicester

ams.org • 8 points

55. Time-locked Encryption Made Practical

eprint.iacr.org • 8 points

56. DeFi Beyond the Hype

wifpr.wharton.upenn.edu • 8 points

57. Tool Writing: A Forgotten Art?

spinellis.gr • 7 points

58. Right to Repair – Australian Productivity Commission Draft Report

pc.gov.au • 7 points

59. NASA guide to pressure suits

nasa.gov • 7 points

60. Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itsel

vpri.org • 6 points

61. Blind Bipedal Stair Traversal via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 5 points • 2 citations

62. String Theory for Undergraduates

mit.edu • 5 points

63. WHO Chief Scientist Got Legal Notice for Suppressing Data on Drug to Treat Covid

indianbarassociation.in • 5 points

64. From Warm to Hot Starts: Leveraging Runtimes for the Serverless Era

sigops.org • 5 points

65. Why Do Scientists Lie?

liamkofibright.com • 5 points

66. On the use of Benford’s law to detect GAN-generated images

arxiv.org • 5 points

67. ACM suggested Computer Science Curricula

acm.org • 5 points

68. AMA survey: 96% of doctors are fully vaccinated

ama-assn.org • 5 points

69. Human Rights Watch: South Korea problem with digital sex crimes

hrw.org • 4 points • 1 citation