2020 Top Papers on Hacker News

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

arxiv.org • 113 points

102. Zero Knowledge Proofs applied to Auctions

courses.csail.mit.edu • 113 points

103. Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results

abc.xyz • 91 points • 3 citations

104. Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM

arxiv.org • 112 points

105. John McCarthy: History of Lisp

jmc.stanford.edu • 104 points • 1 citation

106. Cyborgs and Space

web.mit.edu • 102 points • 1 citation

107. Demystifying Differentiable Programming

arxiv.org • 109 points

108. A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

arxiv.org • 105 points

109. Borg: The Next Generation

eurosys2020.org • 104 points

110. Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics

arxiv.org • 104 points

111. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

algorithmicbotany.org • 103 points

112. V0LTpwn: Attacking x86 Processor Integrity from Software

arxiv.org • 102 points

113. Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees

cs.virginia.edu • 99 points

114. How to Ensure That Your Program Does Not Run Under Windows 95

ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com • 98 points

115. Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems

arxiv.org • 97 points

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

bea.gov • 96 points

117. You Bet

oaktreecapital.com • 96 points

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

epicentro.iss.it • 51 points • 9 citations

119. 40-60% of the unexposed produce Covid-19 antibodies due to earlier cold exposure

cell.com • 95 points

120. A Tale of Two Ships

thorconpower.com • 95 points

121. LISP I Programmer's Manual

history.siam.org • 95 points

122. The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages

arxiv.org • 94 points

123. The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide

cr.yp.to • 94 points

124. Dependent Type Systems as Macros

williamjbowman.com • 94 points

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

mimix.io • 94 points

126. Improved Geometric Specular Antialiasing

jp.square-enix.com • 91 points

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

docs.fcc.gov • 90 points

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

dtn7.github.io • 90 points

129. In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

raft.github.io • 81 points • 1 citation

130. Evaluation of SDR boards and toolchains

gitlab.com • 86 points

131. C program proofs with Frama-C and its weakest-precondition plugin

allan-blanchard.fr • 86 points

132. Preliminary assessment of the International Spreading Risk of Coronavirus

mobs-lab.org • 86 points

133. Machine Unlearning

arxiv.org • 86 points

134. Intelligence Without Reason

ijcai.org • 86 points

135. The Byzantine Generals Problem

lamport.azurewebsites.net • 85 points

136. Aspects of Categorical Recursion Theory

arxiv.org • 85 points

137. Formalizing Text Editors in Coq

arxiv.org • 85 points

138. Compiler Auto-Vectorization with Imitation Learning

papers.nips.cc • 85 points

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

eecs.berkeley.edu • 79 points • 1 citation

140. Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs

eecs.berkeley.edu • 84 points

141. Crabs: the bitmap terror

lucacardelli.name • 78 points • 1 citation

142. Hyman Rickover on Nuclear Reactor Designs

ecolo.org • 82 points

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

research.ed.ac.uk • 82 points

144. Electricity as Power

science.sciencemag.org • 81 points

145. Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning

arxiv.org • 75 points • 1 citation

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

rgl.faa.gov • 75 points • 1 citation

147. A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation

paperhub.s3.amazonaws.com • 80 points

148. Debugging C++ Coroutines

open-std.org • 79 points

149. The Newton Application Architecture

waltersmith.us • 78 points

150. Applications of Markov Chains

langvillea.people.cofc.edu • 78 points

151. Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery

mboehme.github.io • 77 points

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

longdom.org • 76 points

153. A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels

microsoft.com • 76 points

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

mlq.me • 70 points • 1 citation

155. A Taxonomy of Privacy

law.upenn.edu • 74 points

156. How to Run Algorithmic Information Theory on a Computer

arxiv.org • 73 points

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

web.stanford.edu • 73 points

158. Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth

faculty.haas.berkeley.edu • 72 points

159. The Design of the US Interstate Highway System

enotrans.org • 71 points

160. The Guile in TeXmacs

iam.uni-bonn.de • 71 points

161. Compiled tips 'n tricks guide for PIC microcontrollers

ww1.microchip.com • 71 points

162. Ironies of Automation

ise.ncsu.edu • 66 points • 1 citation

163. Petri Nets Are Monoids

core.ac.uk • 70 points

164. Temporary suspension of Zoom Technologies, Inc

sec.gov • 69 points

165. EU-Commissioned Study Proposes European Firewall

europarl.europa.eu • 56 points • 3 citations

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

gao.gov • 64 points • 1 citation

167. Preliminary result of the Gangelt, Germany Covid-19 case cluster study

land.nrw • 64 points • 1 citation

168. Use of Mussels to Improve Water Quality in Reflecting Pool

his.com • 68 points

169. Why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language?

nischalshrestha.me • 67 points

170. Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems

gao.gov • 62 points • 1 citation

171. Privacy implications of the QUIC protocol

petsymposium.org • 66 points

172. US Supreme Court rules DACA rescission was unlawful

supremecourt.gov • 50 points • 4 citations

173. How Reliable Are University Rankings?

arxiv.org • 65 points

174. MOV is Turing-complete

drwho.virtadpt.net • 65 points

175. Airbus A320 Family Non-Normal Notes

hursts.org.uk • 60 points • 1 citation

176. Show HN: Intrusion Detection in Real-time

arxiv.org • 64 points

177. Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

s21.q4cdn.com • 59 points • 1 citation

178. Against Set Theory

ontology.buffalo.edu • 55 points • 2 citations

179. ABI – Now or Never

open-std.org • 63 points

180. Breaking RSA Security with a Low Noise D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Annealer

arxiv.org • 63 points

181. WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus – Report

who.int • 18 points • 18 citations

182. An international comparison of the second derivative of Covid-19 deaths

medrxiv.org • 58 points • 1 citation

183. Radio-Astronomical Imaging: FPGAs vs. GPUs

astron.nl • 61 points

184. USA v David Correia: Devices sent from client to attorney not privileged

courtlistener.com • 61 points

185. Ohio Prison Death Updates

coronavirus.ohio.gov • 60 points

186. The problem of increasing human energy

aetherwizard.com • 60 points

187. Causal Inference and Data-Fusion in Econometrics

arxiv.org • 60 points

188. Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling

pages.uoregon.edu • 59 points

189. Design: the key to writing and advising a one-draft thesis

cs.tufts.edu • 58 points

190. How domain experts create diagrams, and implications for tool design

wodenimoni.com • 57 points

191. On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming

breckyunits.com • 56 points

192. The draft Bill for upcoming $2.x trillion stimulus package

majorityleader.gov • 52 points • 1 citation

193. Graph2Plan: Learning Floorplan Generation from Layout Graphs

arxiv.org • 55 points

194. Complex-step differentiation and automatic differentiation

pdfs.semanticscholar.org • 55 points

195. Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in the Linux Kernel

outflux.net • 55 points

196. 40 Uses for Germanium Diodes

frank.pocnet.net • 55 points

197. Buridan's Principle

microsoft.com • 55 points

198. Kitchen Knives: The New Bling

oxfordsymposium.org.uk • 54 points

199. On Iteration and Recursion

cs.utexas.edu • 54 points

200. How Bochs Works Under the Hood

bochs.sourceforge.net • 54 points