Hacker News: nill0

The prestige and status of research fields within mathematics

nill0 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13244

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054799

Points: 2

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Conflict Resolution

nill0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:44:08 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_resolution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047157

Points: 3

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Games of Incomplete Information(2002) [pdf]

nill0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://web.stanford.edu/~jdlevin/Econ%20203/Bayesian.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047089

Points: 2

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A New Approach to Nuclear Warhead Verification Using a Zero-Knowledge Protocol(2012) [pdf]

nill0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:24:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boazbarak.org/Papers/nuclear-zk.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047005

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point Clouds

nill0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:47:30 +0000

Article URL: https://nzfeng.github.io/research/PointsAsTori/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044326

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fields Medals 2026

nill0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:23:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022137

Points: 218

# Comments: 119

Living in the Math World Means Threading the Needle

nill0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wins-2026-fields-medal-the-third-woman-ever-20260723/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022126

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

CosmicWatch: The Desktop Muon Detector

nill0 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:59:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12111

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967839

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Order of Magnitude Physics a Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod(1998) [pdf]

nill0 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:31:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inference.org.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965736

Points: 7

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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]

nill0 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-science-and-engineering-mastering-complexity-fall-2014/3bca850386a3005c22134fa62fb3bad5_MITRES_6-011F14_art_insfin.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965719

Points: 93

# Comments: 5

The (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs(2010) [pdf]

nill0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:34:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boazbarak.org/Papers/obfuscate.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934349

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Michael Freedman: Compression Is All You Need [video]

nill0 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhA6hnh-peM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905737

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Boundary of Computation(2023) [video]

nill0 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAc1nDizu0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905691

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Solved and Unsolved: The Status of Hilbert's 23 Problems in Mathematics

nill0 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:30:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/06/18/solved-unsolved-and-unsolvable-the-status-of-hilberts-23-problems-in-mathematics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607423

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Patterns of Structure and Argument: a guide to mathematical thinking(2017) [pdf]

nill0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:27:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cidelman/Research/foundationsbook.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378626

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

The analog computer museum's online library

nill0 — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:04:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/library.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244547

Points: 31

# Comments: 2

A Visual Tour of Classical Electromagnetism (1960)

nill0 — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:14:49 +0000

Article URL: https://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/guidedtour/Tour.htm#_Toc27302365

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244251

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Scott Aaronson – The Truth About Quantum Computing [video]

nill0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:25:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4atriB-Rc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236310

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A world from a sheet of paper – Tadashi Tokieda [video]

nill0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:06:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236049

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fast Factorial Algorithms

nill0 — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:55:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/FastFactorialFunctions.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202909

Points: 56

# Comments: 13