Research & data

Papers, technical reports, and datasets repeatedly rediscovered by HN readers.

Hall of Fame: 25
Candidates: 68
Median span: 6.3 yrs
First seen: 2007

Subtypes in Research & data

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Research papers 56 links 15 Hall · 41 Candidates Technical reports 33 links 9 Hall · 24 Candidates Datasets 4 links 1 Hall · 3 Candidates

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Jewish problems

arxiv.org 11 submissions · 11 people · 13.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2021-08-11

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Big Ball of Mud (1999)

www.laputan.org 21 submissions · 20 people · 18.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-10

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SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

www.sqlite.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2024-10-26

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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

www.jsoftware.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-25

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Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

www.dkriesel.com 14 submissions · 14 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-11 Resurfaced 2021-11-15

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Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

arxiv.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2020-10-21

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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

papers.ssrn.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-13

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Common Crawl

commoncrawl.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-04

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Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

web.williams.edu 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2023-11-13

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Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf]

www.cs.kent.ac.uk 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2024-05-22

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“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis Ritchie

www.bell-labs.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2023-07-09

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

web.mit.edu 6 submissions · 5 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2026-06-12

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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]

media.defense.gov 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-25

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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

www.bankofengland.co.uk 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-09

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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

sqlite.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-11 Resurfaced 2025-11-28

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Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

arxiv.org 11 submissions · 11 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2021-05-19

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Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

arxiv.org 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-14

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Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf]

greenlab.di.uminho.pt 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-09 Resurfaced 2022-09-21

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Mystery signal from a helicopter

www.windytan.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-24

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How real are real numbers? (2004)

arxiv.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-09 Resurfaced 2020-08-02

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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

arxiv.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-25

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How We Built Uber’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go

eng.uber.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-14

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Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf]

kam.mff.cuni.cz 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2019-06-21

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Consciousness as a State of Matter

arxiv.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2019-01-30

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Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized

www.nature.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-08 Resurfaced 2022-08-06

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

web.mit.edu 6 submissions · 5 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2026-06-12

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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

sqlite.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-11 Resurfaced 2025-11-28

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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

www.jsoftware.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-25

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Common Crawl

commoncrawl.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-04

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SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

www.sqlite.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2024-10-26

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Candidates

Browse 68 candidates

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years

jeffhuang.com 19 submissions · 15 people · 15.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-01-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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God's Number is 20 (2010)

cube20.org 10 submissions · 10 people · 15.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)

lwn.net 10 submissions · 10 people · 17.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)

worrydream.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

pages.cs.wisc.edu 12 submissions · 11 people · 10.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)

journals.plos.org 19 submissions · 16 people · 8.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Typing with pleasure, and low latency

pavelfatin.com 15 submissions · 13 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions

valerieaurora.org 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-02-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

www.scottaaronson.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]

www.graybeardgames.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-15

Needs:5 submissions

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A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]

alvyray.com 7 submissions · 6 people · 10.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-04-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]

www.princeton.edu 7 submissions · 7 people · 17.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-04-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45

hbr.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-12

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox

grabbyaliens.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-10

Needs:5 submissions

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Homemade GPS Receiver (2013)

www.aholme.co.uk 9 submissions · 5 people · 10.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-12-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

fermatslibrary.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-12-31

Needs:5 submissions

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What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

arxiv.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-28

Needs:5 submissions

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SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)

seaglass.cs.washington.edu 3 submissions · 3 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-23

Needs:5 submissions

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Scalability, but at what cost? (2015)

www.frankmcsherry.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-06-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Software Engineering at Google (2017)

arxiv.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-01-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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