Ask HN: What are the best scholarly papers you read in 2017?

30 points·yesenadam··6 comments

An AskHN question about best book made me aware I've read many more papers than books lately. (I mean scholarly/academic articles, not newspapers!) Any field is great, name a few if 1 is too hard to pick. And maybe omit the ones you have to be a specialist in your exact field to understand a word of. Thanks!

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I got introduced to side channel attacks 2 years ago, but only recently had the time to read up on RowHammer attacks. In particular, I was quite taken by the research on Clementine Maurice. Won't paste any links here but a quick Google search on her would lead to a treasure trove of her works.

Steve Gibson has done some podcasts about RowHammer stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYkahXb1gs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PapZsPLGlo4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGR_LPh42k

Thank you! I watched some of one of her videos, fascinating. I noticed she's spoken at BlackHat conferences.. Isn't that exactly the kind of people her work is supposed to be protecting against? hehe That seemed weird.

The Google Dapper paper was a good read, but it's from 2010, so I'm not sure if it counts.

Does the Ethereum White Paper count?

Sure. :-) Not sure why it wouldn't, looks interesting thanks. Unless you thought I had probably heard more than enough about BTC already?! I didn't really know what 'white paper' meant. "White papers may be considered grey literature."[0] Aah.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper

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