Top Hackernews posts from www.quantamagazine.org

1. Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (www.quantamagazine.org)
   993 points by jasondavies almost 55 years | 287 comments
2. Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy (www.quantamagazine.org)
   782 points by theafh almost 55 years | 422 comments
3. Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (www.quantamagazine.org)
   612 points by MetallicCloud almost 55 years | 567 comments
4. Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure (www.quantamagazine.org)
   589 points by davidvarela_us almost 55 years | 166 comments
5. New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
   552 points by ot almost 55 years | 112 comments
6. Inside the Proton (www.quantamagazine.org)
   550 points by shantanu_sharma almost 55 years | 209 comments
7. Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture (www.quantamagazine.org)
   506 points by theafh almost 55 years | 102 comments
8. How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer (www.quantamagazine.org)
   501 points by theafh almost 55 years | 344 comments
9. Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming (www.quantamagazine.org)
   498 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 191 comments
10. The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity (www.quantamagazine.org)
    439 points by theafh almost 55 years | 198 comments
11. Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets (www.quantamagazine.org)
    420 points by kentricon almost 55 years | 107 comments
12. The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations (www.quantamagazine.org)
    408 points by jnord almost 55 years | 117 comments
13. Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes (www.quantamagazine.org)
    390 points by theafh almost 55 years | 249 comments
14. Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow (www.quantamagazine.org)
    383 points by aaraujo002 almost 55 years | 72 comments
15. In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge (www.quantamagazine.org)
    380 points by yamrzou almost 55 years | 226 comments
16. New math book rescues landmark topology proof (www.quantamagazine.org)
    372 points by theafh almost 55 years | 161 comments
17. Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers (www.quantamagazine.org)
    368 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 169 comments
18. JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe (www.quantamagazine.org)
    362 points by Brajeshwar almost 55 years | 177 comments
19. A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm (www.quantamagazine.org)
    358 points by the-mitr almost 55 years | 127 comments
20. To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions (www.quantamagazine.org)
    357 points by sebg almost 55 years | 155 comments
21. New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different (www.quantamagazine.org)
    356 points by theafh almost 55 years | 110 comments
22. He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (www.quantamagazine.org)
    355 points by digital55 almost 55 years | 136 comments
23. How to prove you know a secret without giving it away (www.quantamagazine.org)
    334 points by jnord almost 55 years | 160 comments
24. Gravity is a double copy of other forces (www.quantamagazine.org)
    324 points by cjg almost 55 years | 205 comments
25. The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses (www.quantamagazine.org)
    312 points by mikhael almost 55 years | 252 comments
26. Elliptic curve 'murmurations' found with AI (www.quantamagazine.org)
    307 points by Brajeshwar almost 55 years | 36 comments
27. Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed (www.quantamagazine.org)
    302 points by rolph almost 55 years | 143 comments
28. What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer (www.quantamagazine.org)
    300 points by i13e almost 55 years | 234 comments
29. Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake' (www.quantamagazine.org)
    300 points by mgl almost 55 years | 244 comments
30. Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains (www.quantamagazine.org)
    298 points by theafh almost 55 years | 135 comments
31. Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities (www.quantamagazine.org)
    287 points by nnx almost 55 years | 196 comments
32. Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019) (www.quantamagazine.org)
    285 points by kjhughes almost 55 years | 100 comments
33. Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better (www.quantamagazine.org)
    282 points by theafh almost 55 years | 145 comments
34. Loneliness reshapes the brain (www.quantamagazine.org)
    279 points by theafh almost 55 years | 180 comments
35. Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness (www.quantamagazine.org)
    278 points by jnord almost 55 years | 48 comments
36. Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing (www.quantamagazine.org)
    276 points by theafh almost 55 years | 108 comments
37. Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold (www.quantamagazine.org)
    275 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 229 comments
38. 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets (www.quantamagazine.org)
    274 points by digital55 almost 55 years | 122 comments
39. How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute (www.quantamagazine.org)
    270 points by amichail almost 55 years | 153 comments
40. A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized (www.quantamagazine.org)
    268 points by theafh almost 55 years | 369 comments
41. Surprise computer science proof in combinatorics (www.quantamagazine.org)
    267 points by theafh almost 55 years | 146 comments
42. Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter (www.quantamagazine.org)
    260 points by theafh almost 55 years | 73 comments
43. Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be (www.quantamagazine.org)
    259 points by theafh almost 55 years | 323 comments
44. Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox (www.quantamagazine.org)
    255 points by theafh almost 55 years | 163 comments
45. “Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study (www.quantamagazine.org)
    255 points by Anon84 almost 55 years | 201 comments
46. The brain maps out ideas and memories like spaces (www.quantamagazine.org)
    252 points by andyxor almost 55 years | 72 comments
47. Mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the Ramsey number (www.quantamagazine.org)
    252 points by georgehill almost 55 years | 42 comments
48. Mathematicians clear hurdle in quest to decode primes (www.quantamagazine.org)
    251 points by akeck almost 55 years | 73 comments
49. The deep link equating math proofs and computer programs (www.quantamagazine.org)
    249 points by digital55 almost 55 years | 162 comments
50. Cells across the body talk to each other about aging (www.quantamagazine.org)
    246 points by birriel almost 55 years | 164 comments
51. Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold (www.quantamagazine.org)
    245 points by Tomte almost 55 years | 99 comments
52. Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models (www.quantamagazine.org)
    243 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 313 comments
53. Black holes finally proven mathematically stable (www.quantamagazine.org)
    237 points by shantanu_sharma almost 55 years | 141 comments
54. Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (www.quantamagazine.org)
    235 points by guerrilla almost 55 years | 82 comments
55. How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real (www.quantamagazine.org)
    234 points by theafh almost 55 years | 347 comments
56. Asymmetry detected in the distribution of galaxies (www.quantamagazine.org)
    233 points by thedday almost 55 years | 89 comments
57. ‘Alien calculus’ could save particle physics from infinities (www.quantamagazine.org)
    232 points by pyman_in almost 55 years | 124 comments
58. Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero (www.quantamagazine.org)
    231 points by digital55 almost 55 years | 157 comments
59. Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution (www.quantamagazine.org)
    231 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 99 comments
60. The enduring mystery of how water freezes (www.quantamagazine.org)
    231 points by Tomte almost 55 years | 83 comments
61. New neural network architecture inspired by neural system of a worm (www.quantamagazine.org)
    218 points by burrito_brain almost 55 years | 65 comments
62. Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem (www.quantamagazine.org)
    218 points by sashank_1509 almost 55 years | 92 comments
63. Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions (www.quantamagazine.org)
    211 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 41 comments
64. Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge (www.quantamagazine.org)
    206 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 114 comments
65. The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses (www.quantamagazine.org)
    205 points by panabee almost 55 years | 90 comments
66. The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set (www.quantamagazine.org)
    203 points by limbicsystem almost 55 years | 84 comments
67. DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often (www.quantamagazine.org)
    196 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 127 comments
68. Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
    196 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 213 comments
69. Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien (www.quantamagazine.org)
    195 points by NotSwift almost 55 years | 301 comments
70. How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis (www.quantamagazine.org)
    195 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 92 comments
71. New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry (www.quantamagazine.org)
    193 points by theafh almost 55 years | 35 comments
72. Detailed footage reveals what triggers lightning (www.quantamagazine.org)
    193 points by privong almost 55 years | 26 comments
73. ‘Impossible’ particle discovery adds key piece to the strong force puzzle (www.quantamagazine.org)
    192 points by theafh almost 55 years | 70 comments
74. Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics (www.quantamagazine.org)
    192 points by digital55 almost 55 years | 122 comments
75. New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal (www.quantamagazine.org)
    192 points by bertman almost 55 years | 28 comments
76. A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change (www.quantamagazine.org)
    190 points by theafh almost 55 years | 69 comments
77. Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision (www.quantamagazine.org)
    190 points by theafh almost 55 years | 67 comments
78. An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity (www.quantamagazine.org)
    189 points by theafh almost 55 years | 96 comments
79. A new experiment casts doubt on the leading theory of the nucleus (www.quantamagazine.org)
    189 points by jnord almost 55 years | 113 comments
80. Scientists find optimal space-time balance for hash tables (www.quantamagazine.org)
    189 points by Brajeshwar almost 55 years | 63 comments
81. The new math of how large-scale order emerges (www.quantamagazine.org)
    189 points by gradus_ad almost 55 years | 48 comments
82. A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions (www.quantamagazine.org)
    188 points by Anon84 almost 55 years | 60 comments
83. How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? (www.quantamagazine.org)
    188 points by theafh almost 55 years | 118 comments
84. Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem (www.quantamagazine.org)
    188 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 38 comments
85. An ancient geometry problem falls to new mathematical techniques (www.quantamagazine.org)
    184 points by theafh almost 55 years | 100 comments
86. Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse explanation of quantum weirdness (www.quantamagazine.org)
    183 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 289 comments
87. Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (2019) (www.quantamagazine.org)
    180 points by yamrzou almost 55 years | 92 comments
88. A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain (www.quantamagazine.org)
    179 points by theafh almost 55 years | 44 comments
89. A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises (www.quantamagazine.org)
    179 points by haltingproblem almost 55 years | 19 comments
90. The electron is so round that it’s ruling out potential new particles (www.quantamagazine.org)
    179 points by martincmartin almost 55 years | 139 comments
91. Mathematical proof is a social compact (www.quantamagazine.org)
    179 points by digital55 almost 55 years | 216 comments
92. Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory (www.quantamagazine.org)
    178 points by EA-3167 almost 55 years | 95 comments
93. New map of meaning in the brain changes ideas about memory (www.quantamagazine.org)
    174 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 56 comments
94. Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected (www.quantamagazine.org)
    174 points by theafh almost 55 years | 95 comments
95. The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish (www.quantamagazine.org)
    174 points by shantanu_sharma almost 55 years | 53 comments
96. Tiny Language Models Come of Age (www.quantamagazine.org)
    174 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 78 comments
97. A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning (www.quantamagazine.org)
    173 points by the__prestige almost 55 years | 66 comments
98. A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging (www.quantamagazine.org)
    170 points by bookofjoe almost 55 years | 83 comments
99. Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best (www.quantamagazine.org)
    166 points by blegh almost 55 years | 42 comments
100. Modular forms, the ‘fifth fundamental operation’ of math (www.quantamagazine.org)
     164 points by nsoonhui almost 55 years | 56 comments