Hacker News Papers

1. EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption

statewatch.org • 1527 points • 1 citation

2. What distinguishes great software engineers?

faculty.washington.edu • 301 points

3. The SEC “Modernizes” the Accredited Investor Definition

sec.gov • 194 points • 2 citations

4. A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code

arxiv.org • 176 points

5. It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister

arxiv.org • 161 points

6. Cargill: The worst company in the world

mightyearth.org • 159 points

7. TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

arxiv.org • 159 points

8. Geometric Algebra

arxiv.org • 147 points

9. Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors

cs.umd.edu • 117 points

10. Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years

web.cecs.pdx.edu • 99 points

11. Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time

pdos.csail.mit.edu • 98 points

12. A Theory of Universal Learning

web.math.princeton.edu • 93 points

13. Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering

web.mit.edu • 90 points

14. Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study

digitalmedia.fi • 84 points

15. A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works

arxiv.org • 81 points

16. Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

bmj.com • 80 points

17. AWS Security Maturity Roadmap

summitroute.com • 77 points

18. Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program

web.stanford.edu • 74 points

19. A Kit that converts a Classic Mini into 80kw electric Mini

swindonpowertrain.com • 68 points

20. Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning

arxiv.org • 58 points

21. Pandoc for TeXnicians

tug.org • 53 points

22. Development of the Domain Name System

cseweb.ucsd.edu • 51 points

23. Drug Themes in Science Fiction, by Robert Silverberg

erowid.org • 51 points

24. A Novel Framework for Explaining Machine Learning Using Shapley Values

arxiv.org • 49 points

25. Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries

arxiv.org • 48 points

26. Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well

comet.lehman.cuny.edu • 41 points

27. The Philosophical Implications of the Four-Color Problem

maa.org • 39 points

28. What mother never told you about VM service

leeandmelindavarian.com • 39 points

29. Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design

arxiv.org • 37 points

30. Liquid information flow control

cseweb.ucsd.edu • 36 points

31. PIUMA: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture

arxiv.org • 35 points

32. Algorithms for Causal Reasoning in Probability Trees

arxiv.org • 35 points

33. Johns Hopkins: Heart Disease Deaths Dropped in 2020

corona-transition.org • 32 points

34. Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting

people.csail.mit.edu • 29 points

35. Sparsity Enables 50x Performance Acceleration in Deep Learning Networks

numenta.com • 27 points • 1 citation

36. The Complexity of Songs

cs.bme.hu • 27 points

37. Qualitative research needs to be open-source

scholar.harvard.edu • 26 points

38. A Survey of System Architectures and Techniques for FPGA Virtualization

arxiv.org • 26 points

39. The rise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in international development

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu • 24 points

40. FBI: Hackers stole Source Code of US Agencies due to SonarQube misconfiguration

ic3.gov • 23 points

41. Implementing Curve25519/X25519: A Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

martin.kleppmann.com • 23 points

42. Large-scale multilingual audio visual dubbing

arxiv.org • 22 points

43. Passive SSH – A Fast-Lookup Database of SSH Key Materials (DFIR)

github.com • 22 points

44. Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened

web.mit.edu • 18 points • 2 citations

45. Exploring the virtual reality conjecture

fqxi.org • 16 points

46. On generalization problems of ML models in real-world applications

arxiv.org • 14 points • 1 citation

47. Be Productive This Pandemic: Learn Lisp in 52 Pages

github.com • 14 points

48. Large-Scale Geo-Replicated Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types

gsd.inesc-id.pt • 14 points

49. Gaining root access on Alexa using only sound

usenix.org • 12 points

50. “It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle” – Matthew Cook, Caltech

paradise.caltech.edu • 12 points

51. HyperGraphs are more memory efficient than graphs

github.com • 11 points • 1 citation

52. Heuristics and performance bounds for automated design

arxiv.org • 11 points

53. Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains

damonmccoy.com • 10 points • 1 citation

54. Overview of Serialization Technologies

indico.cern.ch • 10 points

55. Training EfficientNets at Scale: 83% ImageNet Top-1 Accuracy in One Hour

arxiv.org • 10 points

56. Toward an AI Physicist for Unsupervised Learning

arxiv.org • 10 points

57. A work-from-home tax

dbresearch.com • 10 points

58. Network scan of Dominon Voting Systems by cyber security expert

courtlistener.com • 10 points

59. In-Database Machine Learning

btw.informatik.uni-rostock.de • 9 points

60. NoiseScope: Detecting Deepfake Images in a Blind Setting

people.cs.vt.edu • 9 points

61. CIA: Research into Human Paranormal Capabilities

cia.gov • 9 points

62. Inappropriate Applications of Benford’s Law

www-personal.umich.edu • 5 points • 7 citations

63. A Secret Vice

faculty.smu.edu • 8 points

64. DEF CON 27 Voting Machine Hacking Village

media.defcon.org • 8 points

65. Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues

arxiv.org • 8 points

66. Writing an Operating System – From Scratch

cs.bham.ac.uk • 7 points

67. Testing Database Engines via Pivoted Query Synthesis

usenix.org • 7 points

68. Seeing is believing: a client-centric specification of database isolation

cs.cornell.edu • 7 points

69. The Unix-Haters Handbook

web.mit.edu • 7 points

70. Coding Guidelines for Prolog

arxiv.org • 7 points

71. Illustrated guide to artifical intelligence

files.thoughtworks.com • 6 points

72. Senators letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on vote manipulation

ronjohnson.senate.gov • 6 points

73. Let’s Encrypt Annual Report

abetterinternet.org • 6 points

74. A large scale analysis of hundreds of in-memory cache clusters at Twitter

usenix.org • 6 points

75. EMOGI: Efficient Memory-access for Out-of-memory Graph-traversal In GPUs

vldb.org • 6 points

76. Deep analysis for SaaS company: Cloudbeds

saasideas.net • 5 points • 1 citation

77. Quantifying the Performance of GC vs. Explicit Memory Management

people.cs.umass.edu • 4 points • 4 citations

78. Letter from the EFF to GitHub's DMCA Agent re: YouTube-dl repo takedown

github.com • 3 points • 8 citations

79. CNCF Cloud Native Security whitepaper

github.com • 5 points

80. The Usability of Ownership

arxiv.org • 5 points

81. The scale, growth, and origins of right-wing echo chambers on YouTube

arxiv.org • 5 points

82. Government, universities and industry create domestic labor shortages

ineteconomics.org • 4 points • 1 citation

83. Comma.ai self-driving tech beats all others in consumer reports

data.consumerreports.org • 4 points • 1 citation

84. Twitter is censoring legal documents

defendingtherepublic.org • 4 points • 1 citation