Let's do a "best of" ACM, to list everyone's favorite articles. First thing that...

chaboud · 2026-01-01T17:12:53 1767287573

I love that I can now just drop the link to this gem:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1165555.1165556

Aggregability is NP-Hard... Useful the next time someone insists that it's possible to find a "perfect" model for a non-trivial ML problem. (I get this ask 1-2 times per month.)

leoc · 2026-01-01T19:52:10 1767297130

(As others have said, it's probably better to choose the doi.org URL over the dl.acm.org one in general. Three cheers for HOPL!)

kensai · 2026-01-01T18:09:06 1767290946

Where is HOPL I? Could only find this: https://dl.acm.org/toc/sigplan/1978/13/8

leoc · 2026-01-01T19:46:23 1767296783

The HOPL (1) book (ISBN 9780127450407 ) is at https://doi.org/10.1145/800025 (direct link to ACM: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/800025 ) .

lioeters · 2026-01-02T03:33:54 1767324834

OK, I made a post about it.

Ask HN: Favorite Articles in the ACM Digital Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460953