2020 Top Papers on Hacker News

101. Annual Letter to Berkshire Shareholders

berkshirehathaway.com • 154 points • 2 citations

102. A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code

arxiv.org • 176 points

103. Lean Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification

github.com • 175 points

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

arxiv.org • 174 points

105. SHA1 Is a Shambles (a practical chosen-prefix attack)

eprint.iacr.org • 130 points • 4 citations

106. Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database

vldb.org • 171 points

107. Anticipatory Procastrination

pages.cs.wisc.edu • 171 points

108. Mastering PostgreSQL Administration

momjian.us • 170 points

109. How many jobs can be done at home?

bfi.uchicago.edu • 170 points

110. What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed

arxiv.org • 157 points • 1 citation

111. Mathematics for Computer Science

courses.csail.mit.edu • 156 points • 1 citation

112. Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket

arxiv.org • 167 points

113. Real Time Machine Learning

darpa.mil • 155 points • 1 citation

114. Donald Knuth on Writing and More (An Interview)

philipkiely.com • 166 points

115. Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

sciencemadness.org • 143 points • 2 citations

116. What Satoshi Did Not Know

ifca.ai • 164 points

117. Windows: Interface Guidelines

ics.uci.edu • 163 points

118. Java Turns 25 – Whats Next?

oracle.com • 162 points

119. It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister

arxiv.org • 161 points

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

parallel.princeton.edu • 150 points • 1 citation

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

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

122. Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse

microsoft.com • 159 points

123. TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

arxiv.org • 159 points

124. Cargill: The worst company in the world

mightyearth.org • 159 points

125. Geometric Algebra

arxiv.org • 147 points • 1 citation

126. DeepMind AI reading list

storage.googleapis.com • 157 points

127. RusTLS Formal Audit

github.com • 156 points

128. A Plea for Lean Software

people.inf.ethz.ch • 145 points • 1 citation

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

gov.ca.gov • 155 points

130. Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild

arxiv.org • 154 points

131. Differential Forms and Integration

math.ucla.edu • 143 points • 1 citation

132. FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties

docs.fcc.gov • 153 points

133. Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems

inf.ed.ac.uk • 142 points • 1 citation

134. Reverse Engineering for Beginners

yurichev.org • 152 points

135. What ‘The Social Dilemma’ Gets Wrong

about.fb.com • 152 points

136. Essential C

cslibrary.stanford.edu • 152 points

137. Essential Coding Theory

cse.buffalo.edu • 151 points

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

foundationwebsite.org • 148 points

139. Gated Linear Networks

arxiv.org • 148 points

140. Humanly Traversable Wormholes

arxiv.org • 147 points

141. Three typefaces for mathematics

ultrasparky.org • 147 points

142. Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

arxiv.org • 89 points • 7 citations

143. An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines

web.mit.edu • 144 points

144. Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis

airpower.airforce.gov.au • 144 points

145. Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane

galleyrack.com • 144 points

146. Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth

inf.ethz.ch • 134 points • 1 citation

147. Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft

sabercapitalmgt.com • 143 points

148. Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation

arxiv.org • 142 points

149. Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters

arxiv.org • 140 points

150. Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets

sec.gov • 140 points

151. Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data

who.int • 80 points • 8 citations

152. The strange properties of the infinite power tower

arxiv.org • 139 points

153. seL4 whitepaper (v1.0, 2020-05-25)

sel4.systems • 85 points • 7 citations

154. An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition)

logicmatters.net • 120 points • 2 citations

155. Why and How zk-Snark Works

arxiv.org • 137 points

156. Unix System Programming with Standard ML

mlton.org • 127 points • 1 citation

157. Russian GRU 85th GTsSS Deploys Previously Undisclosed Drovorub Malware

media.defense.gov • 127 points • 1 citation

158. The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature

gilkalai.files.wordpress.com • 136 points

159. Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis

mca-marines.org • 136 points

160. Why Do People Stay Poor?

sticerd.lse.ac.uk • 136 points

161. Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails

electionemails2020.org • 136 points

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

medrxiv.org • 58 points • 12 citations

163. Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention

arxiv.org • 133 points

164. Ropes, an Alternative to Strings

cs.rit.edu • 132 points

165. Neural Databases

arxiv.org • 123 points • 1 citation

166. Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks

arxiv.org • 120 points • 1 citation

167. Deep Molecular Programming

arxiv.org • 128 points

168. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

gwern.net • 87 points • 5 citations

169. Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity

joshuatdean.com • 123 points

170. Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

papers.nips.cc • 107 points • 2 citations

171. Why I Like Math

southparkwillie.com • 121 points

172. Levandowski files suit against Uber

ipfs.eternum.io • 112 points • 1 citation

173. Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning

arxiv.org • 110 points • 1 citation

174. Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors

cs.umd.edu • 117 points

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

ivanomalavolta.com • 117 points

176. A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery

arxiv.org • 117 points

177. Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities

gwern.net • 117 points

178. Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey

arxiv.org • 116 points

179. Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings

supremecourt.gov • 108 points • 1 citation

180. Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise

pnas.org • 115 points

181. Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU

arxiv.org • 115 points

182. Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts

greatdemocracyinitiative.org • 114 points

183. Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam

arxiv.org • 113 points

184. Zero Knowledge Proofs applied to Auctions

courses.csail.mit.edu • 113 points

185. Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results

abc.xyz • 91 points • 3 citations

186. Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM

arxiv.org • 112 points

187. John McCarthy: History of Lisp

jmc.stanford.edu • 104 points • 1 citation

188. Reactive Probabilistic Programming

arxiv.org • 111 points

189. Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money

library.cust.edu.pk • 111 points

190. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

nber.org • 110 points

191. Cyborgs and Space

web.mit.edu • 102 points • 1 citation

192. 40-60% of the unexposed produce Covid-19 antibodies due to earlier cold exposure

cell.com • 95 points • 2 citations

193. Demystifying Differentiable Programming

arxiv.org • 109 points

194. Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression

ceur-ws.org • 109 points

195. Hints and Principles for Computer System Design

dropbox.com • 109 points

196. Homotopy Type Theory

hottheory.files.wordpress.com • 108 points

197. DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS

media.defense.gov • 107 points

198. Microsoft Statement in Support of Epic

cdn.vox-cdn.com • 106 points

199. Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture

nvidia.com • 92 points • 2 citations

200. A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

arxiv.org • 105 points