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Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read?
- eimrine 4y agobitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- jayturley 4y agoMax Tegmark's "The Mathematical Universe". https://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.0646.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.0646.pdf
- daniel-cussen 4y agoYeah he does write really good papers. Another about a program we both wrote independently, the brute-forcer in AI Feynman.
- pid-1 4y agoI really like the Raft paper, just because it was one of the first papers I read out of curiosity. Also, not what you asked, bur there's a fellow on YouTube who reads many classic CS papers while providing context. Great content! https://youtube.com/c/VivekHaldar https://youtube.com/c/VivekHaldar
- jka 4y ago"Reflections on Trusting Trust"[1] (Ken Thompson, 1984) is up there - it's a brief read, with high information density, and fairly profound implications. [1] - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210