2017 Top Papers on Hacker News

101. Failures of Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 210 points

102. Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills

people.csail.mit.edu • 208 points

103. Edward – A Turing-Complete Language for Deep Probabilistic Programming

arxiv.org • 208 points

104. Proof of Work Without All the Work

arxiv.org • 208 points

105. Why Elm?

oreilly.com • 194 points • 1 citation

106. Probability and Statistics Cookbook

pages.cs.wisc.edu • 193 points • 1 citation

107. Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook

research.fb.com • 206 points

108. Writing Parsers Like it is 2017

spw17.langsec.org • 205 points

109. The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech

comp.social.gatech.edu • 189 points • 1 citation

110. A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything

arxiv.org • 202 points

111. University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathematics

i.u-tokyo.ac.jp • 200 points

112. Ownership is Theft: Experiences Building an Embedded OS in Rust

sing.stanford.edu • 171 points • 2 citations

113. Erlang and First-Person Shooters

erlang-factory.com • 195 points

114. A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities

media.defcon.org • 169 points • 2 citations

115. How to Legally Own Another Person

fooledbyrandomness.com • 157 points • 3 citations

116. Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12

arxiv.org • 180 points • 1 citation

117. A Review of Modern Sail Theory

ljjensen.net • 167 points • 2 citations

118. De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry

usenix.org • 173 points • 1 citation

119. An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions

softwarepreservation.org • 171 points • 1 citation

120. Google Cloud Spanner white paper

static.googleusercontent.com • 129 points • 5 citations

121. Physics as a Way of Thinking

kb.osu.edu • 181 points

122. The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust

cs.virginia.edu • 181 points

123. The usefulness of useless knowledge

library.ias.edu • 157 points • 2 citations

124. A View of Mathematics

alainconnes.org • 179 points

125. Deep C

pvv.org • 166 points • 1 citation

126. Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language

cl.cam.ac.uk • 165 points • 1 citation

127. Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes)

web.stanford.edu • 175 points

128. How does Docker affect energy consumption?

arxiv.org • 174 points

129. A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 174 points

130. A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection

cs.virginia.edu • 151 points • 2 citations

131. Heads or tails: impact of a coin toss on major life decisions and happiness

gwern.net • 173 points

132. Hardware Architectures for Deep Neural Networks

rle.mit.edu • 173 points

133. Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

arxiv.org • 131 points • 4 citations

134. Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network

web.mit.edu • 161 points • 1 citation

135. Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD

bsdfrog.org • 170 points

136. How Complex Systems Fail

web.mit.edu • 112 points • 6 citations

137. America's Cult of Ignorance

aphelis.net • 169 points

138. Privacy implications of email tracking

senglehardt.com • 157 points • 1 citation

139. Is the Linux Desktop less secure than Windows 10?

fosdem.org • 168 points

140. Insomniac Games’ Cache Simulator

deplinenoise.files.wordpress.com • 168 points

141. Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone

arxiv.org • 146 points • 2 citations

142. A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

arxiv.org • 155 points • 1 citation

143. Signatures of extra dimensions in gravitational waves

arxiv.org • 155 points • 1 citation

144. Go vs. Swift

github.com • 166 points

145. How complex systems fail

web.mit.edu • 154 points • 1 citation

146. The Little Book of Semaphores

greenteapress.com • 154 points • 1 citation

147. Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach

scholar.harvard.edu • 165 points

148. Defending Internet Freedom through Decentralization: Back to the Future?

dci.mit.edu • 143 points • 2 citations

149. Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 116 points • 5 citations

150. PoC or GTFO 15

alchemistowl.org • 164 points

151. Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra

arxiv.org • 163 points

152. Most Winning A/B Test Results Are Illusory

qubit.com • 163 points

153. Fiat is Effective: fiat for the crypto crowd

interfluidity.com • 163 points

154. Proofs are Programs – 19th Century Logic and 21st Century Computing

homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk • 152 points • 1 citation

155. Why MAC address randomization is not enough

papers.mathyvanhoef.com • 132 points • 3 citations

156. Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS

cis.upenn.edu • 162 points

157. Apple IIe Design Guidelines

apple2scans.net • 162 points

158. Why Women Leave Engineering

energy.gov • 114 points • 5 citations

159. IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s

economistsview.typepad.com • 160 points

160. On the Turing Completeness of MS PowerPoint

andrew.cmu.edu • 160 points

161. Shut up and calculate: an extreme mathematical universe

arxiv.org • 159 points

162. What If Time Really Exists?

arxiv.org • 158 points

163. Naming things

stat.duke.edu • 157 points

164. These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing

arxiv.org • 156 points

165. Org-mode reference card

orgmode.org • 153 points

166. DeepZip: Lossless Compression Using Recurrent Networks

web.stanford.edu • 153 points

167. A PostgreSQL response to Uber

thebuild.com • 142 points • 1 citation

168. Bitcoin's ASICBOOST Problem Explained

rubin.io • 152 points

169. PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing

arxiv.org • 151 points

170. Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk • 140 points • 1 citation

171. A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute

nanog.org • 150 points

172. An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics

arxiv.org • 149 points

173. Reid Hoffman and Brian Chesky on Handcrafting and Scaling Airbnb

mastersofscale.com • 149 points

174. Sorting with GPUs: A Survey

arxiv.org • 148 points

175. Relational Reasoning with Neural Networks

arxiv.org • 137 points • 1 citation

176. Introduction to RAW-sockets

tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de • 145 points

177. Deep Learning: mathematics and neuroscience

cbmm.mit.edu • 145 points

178. Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographic Makeup of US

arxiv.org • 145 points

179. LoRa Backscatter

homes.cs.washington.edu • 135 points • 1 citation

180. What made Bell Labs special?

stat.columbia.edu • 144 points

181. How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience

arxiv.org • 144 points

182. Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety

arxiv.org • 144 points

183. Evidence of an exponential speedup in the solution of hard optimization problems

arxiv.org • 144 points

184. A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing

arxiv.org • 134 points • 1 citation

185. Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine

arxiv.org • 143 points

186. How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts

gking.harvard.edu • 123 points • 2 citations

187. Frame-Based Editing

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk • 140 points

188. C++ value category cheat-sheet

github.com • 138 points

189. A Game of Life on Penrose Tilings

arxiv.org • 138 points

190. Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview

arxiv.org • 120 points • 2 citations

191. DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands

endchan.xyz • 137 points

192. Pixel Recursive Super Resolution

arxiv.org • 126 points • 1 citation

193. INTEL-SA-00075 Mitigation Guide

downloadmirror.intel.com • 126 points • 1 citation

194. Generalization in Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 126 points • 1 citation

195. An algebraic generalization for graph and tensor-based neural networks

cibcb2017.org • 135 points

196. Classes Considered Harmful

web.cecs.pdx.edu • 135 points

197. The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill

ftp.iza.org • 135 points

198. DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence in No-Limit Poker

arxiv.org • 102 points • 4 citations

199. Coq-based synthesis of Scala programs which are correct-by-construction

cedric.cnam.fr • 134 points

200. Simple Sabotage Field Manual

cia.gov • 133 points