Hacker News Papers

1. How to recognize AI snake oil

cs.princeton.edu • 858 points

2. Reverse Engineering for Beginners

beginners.re • 419 points

3. Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy

arxiv.org • 336 points

4. The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat

democrats.senate.gov • 238 points

5. User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit

shagunjhaver.com • 231 points

6. Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking with Your Head

arxiv.org • 197 points

7. Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship

arxiv.org • 195 points

8. In mobile, 62.7% of computation energy cost is spent on data movement

safari.ethz.ch • 194 points

9. GNU Compiler Collection Internals

gcc.gnu.org • 165 points

10. Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration

pmj.bmj.com • 147 points • 1 citation

11. Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model

arxiv.org • 103 points • 3 citations

12. Evaluating the Search Phase of Neural Architecture Search

arxiv.org • 122 points

13. Unix for Poets

cs.upc.edu • 116 points

14. Inside Macintosh

weihenstephan.org • 112 points

15. Security in Plan 9

css.csail.mit.edu • 112 points

16. The Linear Algebra Mapping Problem

arxiv.org • 110 points

17. François Chollet: The Measure of Intelligence

arxiv.org • 92 points • 2 citations

18. Why functional programming matters

cs.kent.ac.uk • 101 points

19. Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes

arxiv.org • 100 points

20. Introduction to Data Compression

cs.cmu.edu • 90 points

21. Dynamically Adjustable Key-Value Store by Combining LSM and COW B+ Tree

greensky00.github.io • 90 points

22. Comparison of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and GDPR

bakerlaw.com • 88 points

23. Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress

docs.house.gov • 86 points

24. Optical Proof of Work

arxiv.org • 81 points

25. IBM System/360 Principles of Operation

bitsavers.org • 78 points

26. The One Weird Trick SecureROM Hates

iokit.racing • 77 points

27. SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image

arxiv.org • 75 points

28. What is Symplectic Geometry?

ams.org • 67 points

29. SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision

cdn.group.softbank • 66 points

30. Fusion in a magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device

arxiv.org • 61 points • 1 citation

31. Decrease of White Matter Integrity in Obese Adolescents

press.rsna.org • 63 points

32. Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives

ieee-security.org • 63 points

33. Surveillance Giants

amnesty.org • 55 points • 1 citation

34. Oral History of Ken Thompson

archive.computerhistory.org • 56 points

35. How Is Disinformation Gaming Ad Tech?

disinformationindex.org • 55 points

36. Pascal's Mugging

nickbostrom.com • 54 points

37. Extended BPF: A New Type of Software

brendangregg.com • 54 points

38. Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox

econstor.eu • 53 points

39. Positional Drum Notation

stanford.edu • 46 points

40. Is There a Crystal Lattice Possessing Five-Fold Symmetry?

ams.org • 45 points

41. Hierarchical Representations for Efficient Architecture Search

arxiv.org • 45 points

42. The Economic Impacts of the Advanced Encryption Standard

nvlpubs.nist.gov • 43 points

43. Introduction to Probability at an advanced level

stat.berkeley.edu • 43 points

44. Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries

tsl.texas.gov • 41 points

45. On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications

usenix.org • 36 points • 1 citation

46. Mobile Providers’ Coverage Maps Investigation

docs.fcc.gov • 38 points

47. Biased Reference Counting: Minimizing atomic operations in GC

iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu • 36 points

48. T-Fuzz: fuzzing by program transformation

nebelwelt.net • 35 points

49. .org domain name registry to be sold to private equity firm

domainnamewire.com • 31 points • 1 citation

50. New evidence supporting the existence of the hypothetic X17 particle

arxiv.org • 28 points • 2 citations

51. A mathematical analysis of Uniswap markets

arxiv.org • 30 points

52. Behind the Scenes of iOS and Mac Security

i.blackhat.com • 25 points • 1 citation

53. OpenCoarrays: A Coarray Fortran API and ABI

opencoarrays.org • 24 points

54. Maximizing ‘bang per bit’ to achieve state of the art results

arxiv.org • 24 points

55. Let's Encrypt: An Automated CertificateAuthority to Encrypt the Entire Web

jhalderm.com • 23 points

56. Coffee market report (October 2019)

ico.org • 23 points

57. The Deep Learning Revolution and Implications for Computer Architecture

arxiv.org • 21 points

58. Theoretical Statistics – All Lectures

stat.berkeley.edu • 20 points

59. HeteroTSDB: An Extensible Time Series Database on Heterogeneous Key-Value Stores

yuuk.io • 17 points

60. CommanderSong: Practical Adversarial Voice Recognition

arxiv.org • 17 points

61. DHS Lacked Tech Needed to Successfully Account for Separated Migrant Families

oig.dhs.gov • 15 points

62. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices

cs.cmu.edu • 15 points

63. Building Fast Fuzzers

arxiv.org • 14 points

64. The Dating Market

gallery.mailchimp.com • 12 points

65. Looking Back at Postgres

arxiv.org • 12 points

66. The Computer and the Brain

ia800800.us.archive.org • 11 points • 1 citation

67. Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

arxiv.org • 11 points

68. Bill To prohibit companies from using practices that exploit human psychology

hawley.senate.gov • 11 points

69. Life's Irreducible Structure

informationphilosopher.com • 9 points

70. The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report

intelligence.house.gov • 8 points

71. UN/CEFACT Business Requirements Specifications on smart container tech released

unece.org • 8 points

72. Differentially Testing Soundness and Precision of Program Analyzers

arxiv.org • 8 points

73. Our Changeable Memories

staff.washington.edu • 7 points

74. The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness

pdfs.semanticscholar.org • 7 points

75. Flight 1080

tristar500.net • 7 points

76. System Identification for Hybrid Systems Using Neural Networks

arxiv.org • 7 points

77. Aliens cause global warming

stephenschneider.stanford.edu • 6 points • 1 citation

78. PagedOut Issue 2 Out

pagedout.institute • 6 points

79. Apple BLE Continuity Protocol

arxiv.org • 6 points

80. Goals, Process, and Challenges of Exploratory Data Analysis: An Interview Study

arxiv.org • 6 points

81. DeepMind Releases Logan: Latent Optimisation for Generative Adversarial Networks

arxiv.org • 6 points

82. What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?

arxiv.org • 6 points

83. The PostgreSQL billion tables project

pgcon.org • 5 points • 1 citation

84. SJW attack survival guide

voxday.net • 5 points

85. uFTL, a fast node.js webserver, 500K RPS

websummit.com • 5 points

86. ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Volume 21

assets.thoughtworks.com • 5 points

87. Terrence Tao – An Introduction to Measure Theory

terrytao.files.wordpress.com • 5 points

88. An Elementary Derivation of Kalman Filtering Using Two Simple Statistics Ideas

arxiv.org • 5 points

89. Causality for Machine Learning

arxiv.org • 5 points

90. Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images

openaccess.thecvf.com • 4 points • 2 citations