Hacker News Papers

1. Beej’s Guide to C Programming

beej.us • 504 points

2. Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data

wyden.senate.gov • 422 points

3. Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers

ndss-symposium.org • 408 points

4. Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code

arxiv.org • 369 points

5. Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children

commercialfreechildhood.org • 367 points

6. How Developers Choose Names

arxiv.org • 192 points

7. Linux Terminal Tools

ketancmaheshwari.github.io • 168 points

8. The Two Cultures of Mathematics

dpmms.cam.ac.uk • 141 points

9. Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels

arxiv.org • 137 points

10. SIMD for C++ Developers

const.me • 127 points • 1 citation

11. Scalability, but at What Cost

usenix.org • 132 points

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

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

13. The TeX tuneup of 2021

tug.org • 120 points

14. Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly

unibw.de • 112 points

15. Why AI is harder than we think

arxiv.org • 100 points • 1 citation

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

cs.rpi.edu • 105 points

17. PostScript Language Reference

adobe.com • 94 points

18. Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

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

19. The Autodidactic Universe

arxiv.org • 91 points

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

web.stanford.edu • 87 points

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

arxiv.org • 86 points

22. A Pixel Is Not a Little Square

alvyray.com • 81 points

23. Cellular Automata

content.wolfram.com • 79 points

24. Statement on DNS Encryption

root-servers.org • 76 points

25. The Curious Case of Port 0

dl.ifip.org • 75 points

26. Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs

arxiv.org • 65 points • 2 citations

27. Hand Tools for Trail Work

fs.fed.us • 73 points

28. Amazon Q1 2021 Quarterly Results

ir.aboutamazon.com • 70 points

29. A Mathematical Trivium

physics.montana.edu • 69 points

30. I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches

cs.virginia.edu • 64 points

31. Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the U.S.

recyclednumbers.cs.princeton.edu • 64 points

32. MMPX Style-Preserving Pixel Art Magnification

casual-effects.com • 63 points

33. Facebook Reports First Quarter 2021 Results

s21.q4cdn.com • 59 points

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

cis.upenn.edu • 57 points

35. Feasibility of stealthily introducing vulnerabilities in open source software

github.com • 52 points • 1 citation

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

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov • 55 points

37. My Love Affair with Dozens

dozenal.org • 50 points

38. Pessimal Algorithms and Simplexity Analysis

mipmip.org • 47 points

39. The Edges of Our Universe

arxiv.org • 46 points

40. S.1024 – The Bust Up Big Tech Act

hawley.senate.gov • 38 points

41. Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans

iacr.org • 38 points

42. The Once and Future Shell

angelhof.github.io • 34 points

43. The Greshm System

greshm.org • 27 points

44. Technology Radar Vol.24

assets.thoughtworks.com • 27 points

45. The Escalation of Commitment to a Course of Action

gwern.net • 25 points

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

static.usenix.org • 25 points

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

usenix.org • 24 points

48. History of Logo

escholarship.org • 23 points

49. Animism in Design: Creating an internet of quirky things

philvanallen.com • 22 points

50. Constructions in Combinatorics via Neural Networks

arxiv.org • 22 points

51. Amnesty International global report death sentences and executions 2020

amnesty.org.uk • 19 points

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

scivisionpub.com • 16 points • 1 citation

53. Square Crypto's white paper on clean energy Bitcoin

assets.ctfassets.net • 15 points

54. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

lost-contact.mit.edu • 14 points

55. Clarifications on the “hypocrite commit” work (FAQ)

www-users.cs.umn.edu • 2 points • 28 citations

56. Valve – Handbook for New Employees

steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net • 13 points

57. National Security Commission on AI Report

nscai.gov • 13 points

58. Certifying Multimedia News Content for Fake News Defense

arxiv.org • 12 points

59. Useful inequalities cheat sheet

lkozma.net • 11 points

60. Apple’s Opening Arguments Slideshow

assets.documentcloud.org • 10 points

61. Google Q1 2021 earnings

abc.xyz • 10 points

62. Key-CRDT Stores

run.unl.pt • 10 points

63. “Hypocrite commit” paper withdrawal from IEEE Security and Privacy 2021

www-users.cs.umn.edu • 9 points • 1 citation

64. I see dead uOps: Leaking secrets via uOp caches

cs.virginia.edu • 9 points

65. Organizing Programs Without Classes

bibliography.selflanguage.org • 9 points

66. The National Intelligence Council – Global Trends 2040

dni.gov • 7 points • 2 citations

67. Catala: A Programming Language for the Law

arxiv.org • 8 points

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

arxiv.org • 8 points

69. Internet: Medium for Communication, Medium for Narrative Control

venam.nixers.net • 7 points • 1 citation

70. Who funded the research behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine?

medrxiv.org • 7 points

71. Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches

cs.virginia.edu • 7 points

72. Timeline of Palmer amaranth invasion and eradication in Minnesota

cambridge.org • 7 points

73. You Are Not Done Yet – checklist

thebraidytester.com • 6 points

74. Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V ISA

openbsd.org • 6 points

75. FCC Grants SpaceX's Satellite Broadband Modification Application

docs.fcc.gov • 6 points

76. Patterns to watch for in your engineering team

pluralsight.com • 6 points

77. Alive2: Bounded Translation Validation for LLVM

cs.utah.edu • 6 points

78. Compiling Tree Transforms to Operate on Packed Representations

engineering.purdue.edu • 6 points

79. I, Pencil

fee.org • 6 points

80. Bitcoin Is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future

assets.ctfassets.net • 5 points • 2 citations

81. A Full Disclosure of the Case Study of the “HypocriteCommits” Paper

www-users.cs.umn.edu • 5 points • 1 citation

82. Growing Open Source Projects with a Stable Foundation

cyrius.com • 5 points

83. FoundationDB: A Distributed, Unbundled, Transactional Key Value Store

foundationdb.org • 5 points

84. Quantumscape: A Pump&Dump Scam by Celebrities, Makes Theranos Look Like Amateurs

scorpioncapital.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com • 5 points

85. Please disabuse: I think I figured out the universe

ia601508.us.archive.org • 5 points

86. Rockley Photonics – Investor Presentation

rockleyphotonics.com • 4 points • 3 citations

87. A Full Disclosure of the Case Study of the “HypocriteCommits” Paper

www-users.cs.umn.edu • 4 points • 1 citation

88. Auth0 Outage Detailed Root Cause Analysis

cdn.auth0.com • 4 points • 1 citation

89. Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

s2.q4cdn.com • 4 points • 1 citation