I only started reading papers this year and have only read two: An empirical study of Rust (found this on 4chan of all places), and a study of local-first software (found right here on HN). The latter truly got me thinking about the cloud services I was using and how your work really isn't yours if it's stored faraway on some cloud servers and not on your local machine. The introduction to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) was excellent as well.