Hacker News Papers

1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use

supremecourt.gov • 4058 points

2. Moderna and BioNTech mRNA sequences

github.com • 1242 points • 1 citation

3. Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work

storage.googleapis.com • 355 points

4. “I'll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies

arxiv.org • 302 points

5. Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and multimode memory

arxiv.org • 242 points

6. Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach

cs.nyu.edu • 200 points

7. The matrix calculus you need for deep learning

arxiv.org • 167 points

8. Ada for the C++ and Java Developer

learn.adacore.com • 152 points

9. So You Want to Do an Infrastructure Package

niskanencenter.org • 139 points

10. A Guide to Writing Mathematics

web.cs.ucdavis.edu • 131 points

11. Flight incident: Passengers titled ‘Miss’ counted as children

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk • 114 points • 2 citations

12. The Economist's Style Guide

cdn.static-economist.com • 128 points

13. BPF for storage: an exokernel-inspired approach

arxiv.org • 122 points

14. The TeX tuneup of 2021

tug.org • 120 points

15. Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems

cs.rpi.edu • 105 points

16. Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google

sback.it • 103 points

17. Autotools: A Tutorial

elinux.org • 100 points

18. Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software

arxiv.org • 99 points

19. Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report

github.com • 92 points

20. Why Software Jewels Are Rare

cse.msu.edu • 92 points

21. Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de • 91 points

22. Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics?

web.stanford.edu • 87 points

23. Pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity retained at ambient

arxiv.org • 86 points

24. Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43km

pnas.org • 80 points

25. The Fortran I Compiler

web.stanford.edu • 71 points

26. A Mathematical Trivium

physics.montana.edu • 69 points

27. Laser: Learning a Latent Action Space for Efficient Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 65 points

28. Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Complexity, and the Lambda Calculus

cis.upenn.edu • 57 points

29. Exercise elicits superior metabolic effects in the afternoon compared to morning

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov • 55 points

30. Domain/OS Design Principles

bitsavers.org • 55 points

31. State in Haskell

microsoft.com • 54 points

32. What are the chances of a third world war?

fooledbyrandomness.com • 54 points

33. Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space

arxiv.org • 51 points

34. Zaphod Beeblebrox's Brain and the 59th row of Pascal's Triangle

dms.umontreal.ca • 50 points

35. The Transformer Network for the Traveling Salesman Problem

arxiv.org • 49 points

36. Pessimal Algorithms and Simplexity Analysis

mipmip.org • 47 points

37. The Edges of Our Universe

arxiv.org • 46 points

38. The Commodore 64 Home Companion

datassette.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com • 46 points

39. Combinators: A Centennial View

arxiv.org • 43 points

40. Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing

stuartcheshire.org • 38 points

41. Preview: IBM z/OS v2.5

ibm.com • 38 points

42. Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI

arxiv.org • 36 points

43. Dear Young Artist

stephenshore.net • 34 points

44. An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming

cs.toronto.edu • 28 points • 1 citation

45. Security analysis of AMD predictive store forwarding

amd.com • 27 points • 1 citation

46. How to Color in a Coloring Book – Algorithm

web.media.mit.edu • 27 points

47. Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate

wpmedia.wolfram.com • 26 points

48. Packets in packets: in-band signaling attack for modern radios

static.usenix.org • 25 points

49. Segcache: A memory-efficient and scalable key-value cache for small objects

usenix.org • 24 points

50. A Critique of Common Lisp

dreamsongs.com • 23 points

51. History of Logo

escholarship.org • 23 points

52. P ≠ NP Provable in PA

arxiv.org • 17 points

53. The MANIAC 1 documentation

bitsavers.org • 14 points

54. Covid 19 RNA based vaccines and the risk of prion disease

scivisionpub.com • 14 points

55. Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring the Data Sent to Apple and Google

scss.tcd.ie • 11 points • 3 citations

56. National Security Commission on AI Report

nscai.gov • 13 points

57. Remote work could allow companies to shift RE expenses onto employees.

nber.org • 13 points

58. Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?

arxiv.org • 13 points

59. Certifying Multimedia News Content for Fake News Defense

arxiv.org • 12 points

60. Kepler's Goat Herd: An Exact Solution for Elliptical Orbit Evolution

arxiv.org • 12 points

61. This World of Ours

scholar.harvard.edu • 10 points

62. Key-CRDT Stores

run.unl.pt • 10 points

63. Magritte: A Language for Pipe-Based Programming

files.jneen.net • 8 points

64. The Case of the Undying Debt

chicagofed.org • 7 points

65. Why is AI hard and Physics simple?

arxiv.org • 7 points

66. Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft v1.0

geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com • 6 points • 2 citations

67. Research: Self-supervised learning methods are subject to evolutionary pressures

arxiv.org • 6 points

68. The science against mass vaccination during a pandemic (viral immune escape)

mcusercontent.com • 6 points

69. You Are Not Done Yet – checklist

thebraidytester.com • 6 points

70. Slow Tuesday Night by R.A. Lafferty

fcusd.org • 6 points

71. Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System

arxiv.org • 6 points

72. Reproducible Builds: Increasing the Integrity of Software Supply Chains

arxiv.org • 6 points

73. I, Pencil

fee.org • 6 points

74. Starlink's application for blanket-licensed Earth stations in motion

fcc.report • 5 points • 2 citations

75. Evaluating the performance of open source static analysis tools

cs.ru.nl • 5 points