2019 Top Papers on Hacker News

101. Ara: A 1 GHz+ Scalable and Energy-Efficient RISC-V Vector Processor

arxiv.org • 186 points

102. Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

library.sciencemadness.org • 150 points • 3 citations

103. The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook

efficiencyiseverything.com • 160 points • 2 citations

104. Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann

cs.cmu.edu • 183 points

105. Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach

arxiv.org • 183 points

106. Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet

wwf.org.uk • 181 points

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

pmj.bmj.com • 147 points • 3 citations

108. The Science of Functional Programming

github.com • 180 points

109. The Hanabi Challange: A New Frontier for AI Research

arxiv.org • 156 points • 2 citations

110. The Saddest Moment

usenix.org • 167 points • 1 citation

111. Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet

gwern.net • 154 points • 2 citations

112. Hams must remove repeaters from CA mountaintops or pay huge fees

shastadefense.com • 176 points

113. Too Much Crypto

eprint.iacr.org • 173 points

114. “Breathability” Comparison of Commercial Outerwear Shell Layers

shelbyoutdoor.com • 172 points

115. Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

arxiv.org • 172 points

116. Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming

norvig.com • 171 points

117. The Night Watch

usenix.org • 111 points • 6 citations

118. NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail

torguard.net • 168 points

119. GNU Compiler Collection Internals

gcc.gnu.org • 165 points

120. Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 164 points

121. Small guide to making nice tables

inf.ethz.ch • 163 points

122. Foundations of Data Science

cs.cornell.edu • 163 points

123. Programming as Theory Building

pages.cs.wisc.edu • 115 points • 5 citations

124. Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer

arxiv.org • 141 points • 2 citations

125. AWS Reliability Pillar / Well-Architected Framework

d1.awsstatic.com • 151 points • 1 citation

126. Self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination

law.utexas.edu • 160 points

127. A guide to pricing and hedging

ieor.columbia.edu • 160 points

128. How Complex Systems Fail

web.mit.edu • 128 points • 3 citations

129. The Early History of F#

fsharp.org • 147 points • 1 citation

130. End-User Probabilistic Programming

cs.uoregon.edu • 157 points

131. Network offloading in OpenWrt

openwrtsummit.files.wordpress.com • 157 points

132. SAT/SMT by Example

yurichev.com • 145 points • 1 citation

133. Higher-Order Type-Level Programming in Haskell

microsoft.com • 155 points

134. Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code

pixelscommander.com • 143 points • 1 citation

135. A Pixel Is Not A Little Square

alvyray.com • 143 points • 1 citation

136. Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer

arxiv.org • 153 points

137. Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Annual Shareholder Letter

berkshirehathaway.com • 151 points

138. LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system

metamodular.com • 140 points • 1 citation

139. One-Shot Training of Neural Networks Using Hypercube-Based Topological Coverings

arxiv.org • 148 points

140. NeurIPS 2019 Notes

david-abel.github.io • 148 points

141. Mobile Jazz Company Handbook

mobilejazz.com • 112 points • 4 citations

142. Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall

germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org • 147 points

143. ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications

bailis.org • 137 points • 1 citation

144. GNU Parallel Cheat Sheet

gnu.org • 119 points • 3 citations

145. It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle

paradise.caltech.edu • 146 points

146. Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces

man7.org • 146 points

147. Remote, in-memory key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone?

pages.cs.wisc.edu • 145 points

148. JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language

lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov • 135 points • 1 citation

149. Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video

fosdem.org • 135 points • 1 citation

150. Fooling automated surveillance: adversarial patches to attack person detector

arxiv.org • 142 points

151. Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book

stephane.ducasse.free.fr • 122 points • 2 citations

152. Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice

arxiv.org • 140 points

153. Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts

arxiv.org • 138 points

154. EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks

arxiv.org • 119 points • 2 citations

155. 2017 saw highest rate of death due to alcohol, drugs, suicide in US history

paininthenation.org • 136 points

156. A Mini-Introduction to Information Theory

arxiv.org • 136 points

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

arxiv.org • 103 points • 4 citations

158. Tetris Is Hard, Even to Approximate

arxiv.org • 126 points • 1 citation

159. The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube

web.mit.edu • 135 points

160. Irish Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook’s Complaint on NSA Surveillance

noyb.eu • 135 points

161. The Impact of the Lambda Calculus

www-users.mat.umk.pl • 134 points

162. Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications

arxiv.org • 134 points

163. The Erdos Paradox

arxiv.org • 133 points

164. What Is the Cost of Building a Subway?

pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com • 124 points • 1 citation

165. GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations

octave.org • 132 points

166. D at 20: Hits and Misses

digitalmars.com • 123 points • 1 citation

167. Open Source Radio Telescope

gnuradio.org • 131 points

168. LSD – My Problem Child

maps.org • 131 points

169. Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident

arxiv.org • 130 points

170. Seven Insights into Queueing Theory

treewhimsy.com • 130 points

171. Migrating to GraphQL: A Practical Assessment

arxiv.org • 129 points

172. New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST

syssec.kaist.ac.kr • 112 points • 2 citations

173. Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization

arxiv.org • 120 points • 1 citation

174. From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education

arxiv.org • 128 points

175. Invent More, Toil Less

usenix.org • 128 points

176. Graph Processing on FPGAs: Taxonomy, Survey, Challenges

arxiv.org • 128 points

177. Mathematics for Computer Science

opendatastructures.org • 127 points

178. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results

abc.xyz • 127 points

179. Survival in chessland

tom7.org • 126 points

180. Freedom to Compete Act

rubio.senate.gov • 126 points

181. Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover

arxiv.org • 125 points

182. I Got More Data, My Model Is More Refined, but My Estimator Is Getting Worse

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu • 125 points

183. SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning with differentiable SAT

arxiv.org • 115 points • 1 citation

184. Why Google Poses a Serious Threat to Democracy, and How to End That Threat

judiciary.senate.gov • 114 points • 1 citation

185. All late projects are the same

systemsguild.com • 122 points

186. Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States

cset.georgetown.edu • 122 points

187. Evaluating the Search Phase of Neural Architecture Search

arxiv.org • 122 points

188. Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style

cs.umd.edu • 113 points • 1 citation

189. Case Study: Monolithic Repository at Google

people.engr.ncsu.edu • 113 points • 1 citation

190. The young centre of the Earth

arxiv.org • 121 points

191. What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger

whatislife.ie • 121 points

192. Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018

govinfo.gov • 121 points

193. Linux: A Portable Operating System

cs.helsinki.fi • 121 points

194. The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences

maths.ed.ac.uk • 112 points • 1 citation

195. What Made Apollo a Success?

ntrs.nasa.gov • 112 points • 1 citation

196. Inside Macintosh

weihenstephan.org • 112 points • 1 citation

197. A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model homogeneity

arxiv.org • 120 points

198. Graphs and Geometry

web.cs.elte.hu • 120 points

199. Mitre Systems Engineering Guide

mitre.org • 119 points

200. Adversarial point perturbations on (neural networks that process) 3D objects

arxiv.org • 117 points