2020 Top Papers on Hacker News

1. UK COVID19 model published

imperial.ac.uk • 71 points • 53 citations

2. FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021

docs.fcc.gov • 908 points

3. Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows

media.defense.gov • 705 points • 3 citations

4. Chelsea Manning ordered to be released

courtlistener.com • 730 points

5. Surveillance on UK council websites

brave.com • 512 points • 1 citation

6. Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide

neildavidson.com • 481 points • 1 citation

7. Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 357 points • 2 citations

8. How to Read a Paper

blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca • 340 points • 2 citations

9. Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov

biorxiv.org • 287 points • 2 citations

10. Experimental evidence of emotional contagion through social networks

pnas.org • 275 points

11. Knowledge Graphs

arxiv.org • 261 points

12. Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking

arxiv.org • 260 points

13. Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems

reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu • 250 points

14. Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes

web.stanford.edu • 242 points

15. Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings

transportation.house.gov • 238 points

16. A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production

arxiv.org • 236 points

17. Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List

scs.stanford.edu • 229 points

18. Technical report into Jeff Bezos phone hack

assets.documentcloud.org • 218 points

19. Learning technical writing using the engineering method

cs.tufts.edu • 215 points

20. Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

arxiv.org • 214 points

21. Bicycles for the mind have to be see-through

akkartik.name • 206 points

22. Undocumented CPU behavior: analyzing undocumented opcodes on Intel x86-64

cattius.com • 205 points

23. U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions from CGT

coincenter.org • 204 points

24. How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods

cslab.pepperdine.edu • 198 points

25. USB 4.0

usb.org • 197 points

26. The Art of Powerful Questions

umanitoba.ca • 197 points

27. How to build a search engine with common Unix tools

iaria.org • 197 points

28. Adjusted age-specific case fatality ratio during the Covid-19 epidemic in Hubei

medrxiv.org • 138 points • 5 citations

29. PID Without a PhD

wescottdesign.com • 195 points

30. C++ Pattern Matching Proposal

open-std.org • 192 points

31. Is a Dataframe Just a Table?

plateau-workshop.org • 189 points

32. Simple Sabotage Field Manual

cia.gov • 187 points

33. Millions of Tiny Databases

assets.amazon.science • 172 points • 1 citation

34. MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law

arxiv.org • 184 points

35. Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages

arxiv.org • 182 points

36. Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need

arxiv.org • 174 points

37. How many jobs can be done at home?

bfi.uchicago.edu • 170 points

38. Annual Letter to Berkshire Shareholders

berkshirehathaway.com • 154 points • 1 citation

39. Windows: Interface Guidelines

ics.uci.edu • 163 points

40. ComputeDRAM: In-Memory Compute Using Off-the-Shelf DRAMs

parallel.princeton.edu • 150 points • 1 citation

41. Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality

video-intl.alicdn.com • 149 points • 1 citation

42. CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks

gov.ca.gov • 155 points

43. How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists

foundationwebsite.org • 148 points

44. Three typefaces for mathematics

ultrasparky.org • 147 points

45. Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis

airpower.airforce.gov.au • 144 points

46. Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth

inf.ethz.ch • 134 points • 1 citation

47. Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters

arxiv.org • 140 points

48. The strange properties of the infinite power tower

arxiv.org • 139 points

49. Unix System Programming with Standard ML

mlton.org • 127 points • 1 citation

50. Aerosol and surface stability of hCoV-19 (coronavirus)

medrxiv.org • 58 points • 12 citations

51. Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention

arxiv.org • 133 points

52. Why I Like Math

southparkwillie.com • 121 points

53. How Android developers access installed apps on user’s device

ivanomalavolta.com • 117 points

54. A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery

arxiv.org • 117 points

55. Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU

arxiv.org • 115 points

56. Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM

arxiv.org • 112 points

57. Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

arxiv.org • 89 points • 3 citations

58. Demystifying Differentiable Programming

arxiv.org • 109 points

59. Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

papers.nips.cc • 107 points

60. A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

arxiv.org • 105 points

61. Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics

arxiv.org • 104 points

62. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

algorithmicbotany.org • 103 points

63. Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results

abc.xyz • 91 points • 1 citation

64. You Bet

oaktreecapital.com • 96 points

65. Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts

bea.gov • 96 points

66. LISP I Programmer's Manual

history.siam.org • 95 points

67. A Tale of Two Ships

thorconpower.com • 95 points

68. Dependent Type Systems as Macros

williamjbowman.com • 94 points

69. MSL: A New Programming Language for Text Editing and Fact Verification

mimix.io • 94 points

70. Improved Geometric Specular Antialiasing

jp.square-enix.com • 91 points

71. FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed / Wi-Fi usage

docs.fcc.gov • 90 points

72. Lora-based device-to-device smartphone communication for crisis scenarios

dtn7.github.io • 90 points

73. Report on the characteristics of Covid-19 positive deceased patients in Italy

epicentro.iss.it • 51 points • 8 citations

74. Evaluation of SDR boards and toolchains

gitlab.com • 86 points

75. Machine Unlearning

arxiv.org • 86 points

76. Preliminary assessment of the International Spreading Risk of Coronavirus

mobs-lab.org • 86 points

77. The Byzantine Generals Problem

lamport.azurewebsites.net • 85 points

78. Aspects of Categorical Recursion Theory

arxiv.org • 85 points

79. Compiler Auto-Vectorization with Imitation Learning

papers.nips.cc • 85 points

80. The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System

eecs.berkeley.edu • 79 points • 1 citation

81. Crabs: the bitmap terror

lucacardelli.name • 78 points • 1 citation

82. Low-cost Deterministic C++ Exceptions for Embedded Systems

research.ed.ac.uk • 82 points

83. Hyman Rickover on Nuclear Reactor Designs

ecolo.org • 82 points

84. Some Boeing 737s can't land on some runways with true heading 270

rgl.faa.gov • 75 points • 1 citation

85. Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 75 points • 1 citation

86. A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation

paperhub.s3.amazonaws.com • 80 points

87. Cyborgs and Space

web.mit.edu • 79 points

88. Debugging C++ Coroutines

open-std.org • 79 points

89. The Newton Application Architecture

waltersmith.us • 78 points

90. D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate and glycine Impairs Coronavirus Replication

longdom.org • 76 points

91. Take a Way: Exploring the Security Implications of AMD’s Cache Way Predictors

mlq.me • 70 points • 1 citation

92. A Taxonomy of Privacy

law.upenn.edu • 74 points

93. The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population

web.stanford.edu • 73 points

94. The Design of the US Interstate Highway System

enotrans.org • 71 points

95. Compiled tips 'n tricks guide for PIC microcontrollers

ww1.microchip.com • 71 points

96. Petri Nets Are Monoids

core.ac.uk • 70 points

97. Temporary suspension of Zoom Technologies, Inc

sec.gov • 69 points

98. DHS plans urgently needed to address identified challenges before 2020 elections

gao.gov • 64 points • 1 citation

99. Privacy implications of the QUIC protocol

petsymposium.org • 66 points

100. MOV is Turing-complete

drwho.virtadpt.net • 65 points