Hacker News Papers

1. The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus

minervanett.no • 493 points

2. The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service

inthepublicinterest.org • 356 points • 1 citation

3. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

arxiv.org • 328 points • 1 citation

4. Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality

borsche.de • 316 points

5. Neural programmer better than Quicksort

arxiv.org • 281 points

6. How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers

arxiv.org • 277 points

7. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

people.math.harvard.edu • 208 points

8. The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization

arxiv.org • 196 points

9. What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed

arxiv.org • 157 points • 1 citation

10. A Plea for Lean Software

people.inf.ethz.ch • 145 points

11. Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft

sabercapitalmgt.com • 143 points

12. Why Do People Stay Poor?

sticerd.lse.ac.uk • 136 points

13. Levandowski files suit against Uber

ipfs.eternum.io • 112 points • 1 citation

14. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

nber.org • 110 points

15. Reactive Probabilistic Programming

arxiv.org • 109 points

16. DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS

media.defense.gov • 107 points

17. Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio

harc.net • 95 points

18. Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer

arxiv.org • 92 points

19. Turing and Wittgenstein on Logic and Mathematics

britishwittgensteinsociety.org • 90 points

20. Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C

cs.rochester.edu • 89 points

21. UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP

arxiv.org • 88 points

22. Account Recovery: Lessons from the Use of Personal Knowledge Questions at Google

static.googleusercontent.com • 84 points

23. Reflections on Trusting Trust

cs.cmu.edu • 75 points • 1 citation

24. How real are real numbers?

arxiv.org • 80 points

25. Finding SARS-CoV-2 carriers by optimizing pooled testing at low prevalence

medrxiv.org • 76 points

26. How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data

eprint.iacr.org • 70 points • 1 citation

27. Who Is Alexander Grothendieck?

ams.org • 73 points

28. How good are query optimizers, really?

vldb.org • 70 points

29. Corecursion and coinduction: how they relate to recursion and induction

cl.cam.ac.uk • 67 points

30. A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed – Terrence Tao

ams.org • 65 points

31. The Art of the Interpreter

dspace.mit.edu • 60 points • 1 citation

32. The Fake Cisco: Hunting for Backdoors in Counterfeit Cisco Devices

labs.f-secure.com • 64 points

33. IBM Power System E980 – Up to 64TB RAM per node

redbooks.ibm.com • 59 points

34. Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces

analysisgroup.com • 52 points

35. Covid-19 in schoolchildren – A comparison between Finland and Sweden

folkhalsomyndigheten.se • 48 points • 1 citation

36. Understanding quaternions and the Dirac belt trick

arxiv.org • 47 points

37. Data Definition and Code Generation in Tcl

trs.jpl.nasa.gov • 47 points

38. Solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks

arxiv.org • 43 points

39. Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions

arxiv.org • 42 points

40. Programming with Punched Cards

columbia.edu • 33 points

41. Reinforcement Learning Under Moral Uncertainty

arxiv.org • 33 points

42. Latency and the Quest for Interactivity

stuartcheshire.org • 31 points

43. Zero Downtime Release: Disruption-Free Load Balancing of Multi-Billion User Site

dropbox.com • 29 points

44. Oregon Attorney General Complaint Feds Violated Protesters' Civil Rights

opb-imgserve-production.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com • 25 points

45. Columbus’s Ultimate Goal: Jerusalem

amherst.edu • 25 points

46. The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 24 points

47. Abraham Wald's Work on Airplane Survivability

people.ucsc.edu • 23 points

48. Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones?

arxiv.org • 22 points

49. Obesity, walking pace and risk of severe Covid-19

medrxiv.org • 20 points

50. Intel Reports Second-Quarter 2020 Financial Results

s21.q4cdn.com • 18 points

51. European Court of Justice invalidates US-EU privacy agreement

curia.europa.eu • 16 points • 1 citation

52. Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness

scholar.princeton.edu • 17 points

53. Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction

courses.cs.washington.edu • 16 points

54. Differences of OT/CRDT: General Transformation Frameworks, Co-Editor Consistency

arxiv.org • 14 points

55. Alphabet announces second quarter 2020 results

abc.xyz • 14 points

56. Ten Paradoxes of Technology – great essay for all technologists

sfu.ca • 13 points

57. Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease

ginecoweb.com • 13 points

58. Repurposing FPGA-Based Products as Development Kits

geeklan.co.uk • 12 points

59. Race, postoperative complications, and death in apparently healthy children

pediatrics.aappublications.org • 11 points

60. Pataphysical Software: Ridiculous Solutions for Imaginary Problems

github.com • 11 points

61. “They Shot Us Like Animals”: Black November and Bolivia's Interim Government

hrp.law.harvard.edu • 9 points

62. Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C

cs.rochester.edu • 9 points

63. Robust T-cell immunity in convalescent persons with asymptomatic or mild COVID19

biorxiv.org • 9 points

64. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

library.ias.edu • 7 points

65. Amazon Earnings Result 2Q 2020

ir.aboutamazon.com • 7 points

66. Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences

arxiv.org • 7 points

67. Effect of bromhexine on clinical outcomes and mortality in Covid-19

bi.tbzmed.ac.ir • 7 points

68. NASA comments on agile vs. waterfall comparing SpaceX and Boeing

oiir.hq.nasa.gov • 7 points

69. AlgebraNets: A new formalism for building neural architectures

arxiv.org • 6 points

70. First Course in the Theory of Equations

gutenberg.org • 6 points

71. Factors associated with Covid-19 death in 17M patients

nature.com • 6 points

72. Fully-Dynamic Planarity Testing in Polylogarithmic Time

arxiv.org • 6 points

73. Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit – Final Report

about.fb.com • 5 points • 1 citation

74. Program Design by Calculation

di.uminho.pt • 5 points • 1 citation

75. Burritos for the Hungry Mathematician

emorehouse.wescreates.wesleyan.edu • 5 points

76. Trump vs. Vance, District Attorney of the County of New York, ETAL

supremecourt.gov • 5 points

77. Black Hole Computers

cs.virginia.edu • 5 points

78. U.S. Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan

whitehouse.gov • 5 points

79. The Awk Programming Language – Brian Kernighan, 1988

ia802309.us.archive.org • 5 points

80. 37% of all US jobs can be done from home

nber.org • 5 points

81. Show HN: Monocypher, my crypto library, has been audited

monocypher.org • 5 points

82. WD explains what happens inside SMR HDD

documents.westerndigital.com • 5 points

83. New type of spacecraft could reach 22% the speed of light

arxiv.org • 5 points

84. Samsung 6G white paper

cdn.codeground.org • 5 points

85. Large-Scale Field-Programmable Analog Arrays [FPAA]

hasler.ece.gatech.edu • 4 points • 1 citation