Hacker Papers
- 226
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
- Nov 2023The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Jan 2026The Code-Only Agent
- 227
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
- 228
GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers
Hacker News threads
- May 2023GPTQ Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-Trained Transformers
- Mar 2023LLaMA Text-Generation-Webui
- Mar 2023Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
- Mar 2023Alpaca- An Instruct Tuned Llama 7B. Responses on par with txt-DaVinci-3. Demo up
- Mar 2023LLaMa running at 5 tokens/second on a Pixel 6
- Mar 2023Apple: Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- May 2023The tiny corp raised $5.1M
- Dec 2023Do large language models need all those layers?
- 229
s1: Simple test-time scaling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Test-time scaling new approach: extra test-time compute improves LLM reasoning
- Feb 2025s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
- Feb 2025S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
- Feb 2025Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
- Feb 2025LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
- Mar 2025QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
- Apr 2026TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
- Jul 2026Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
- 230
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Impolite LLM prompts consistently outperform polite ones
- Oct 2025Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026The User Is Visibly Frustrated
- Jun 2026Claude Fable 5
- Jul 2026I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it
- Jul 2026Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
- Aug 2026Sol Loves to Cheat
- Aug 2026The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
- Oct 2026Anthropic bans users from abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
- 231
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction
- May 2026Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
- Jul 2024Explainability is not a game
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Oct 2026IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
- 232
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
- Dec 2016Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Nov 2017Closing the Simulation-to-Reality Gap for Deep Robotic Learning
- May 2020Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
- Jan 2024Barcoding Bees (2020)
- 233
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Adversarial Network
- Sep 2016Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
- Jul 2020Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
- 234
No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance
Hacker News threads
- May 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- Apr 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- Apr 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- May 2024Geoffrey Hinton "godfather of AI" says that AI will surpass human intelligence
- Jun 2024Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships
- Jun 2024OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
- Jun 2024Ask HN: When will we hit a limit on LLM performance?
- Jul 2024Vision language models are blind
- Jul 2024Ask HN: Are there videos of people using AI for non-trivial coding?
- Nov 2024OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
- Feb 2026(AI) Slop Terrifies Me
- 235
Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jan 2023ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model
- Feb 2023Microsoft Adds ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing Search Engine
- Feb 2023ArxivGPT: Chrome extension that summarizes arxived research papers using ChatGPT
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Feb 2023ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Apr 2025GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions
- 236
Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Hacker News threads
- May 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Apr 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Jun 2025Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
- Oct 2025A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jun 2026GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
- Aug 2026Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful
- Sep 2026OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
- Sep 2026How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Sep 2026Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Sep 2026Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
- 237
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- Mar 2024How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
- Mar 2024How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
- Mar 2024Can Demis Hassabis save Google?
- Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
- May 2024The "Chain of Thought" Delusions
- Aug 2024OpenAI shows 'Strawberry' to feds, races to launch it
- Sep 2024Learning to Reason with LLMs
- Sep 2024g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains
- 238
Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]
- Dec 2019Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
- Dec 2019Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
- Jun 2020Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
- Jun 2020YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
- Jun 2020YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
- Jul 2020The TikTok War
- Sep 2020Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
- Dec 2020Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report says
- Dec 2020YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
- Aug 2021If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data
- 239
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
- Jun 2019The transformer “explained”?
- Jul 2019MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
- Aug 2019GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
- Aug 2019Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
- Aug 2020Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
- May 2022Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- 240
Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- 241
Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Attention with Linear Biases (ALiBi)
- May 2023Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
- May 2023Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Around 75,000 Words
- Jul 2023
- Aug 2023Code Llama, an AI tool for coding
- Aug 2023
- Jan 2024ChatGPT for Teams
- Oct 2024Differential Transformer
- 242
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Unsupervised Rep. Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Advers. Nets
- Jul 2026Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional GANs
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Mar 2016Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- 243
Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
- Apr 2023Hyena a more efficient convolutional LLM when compared to GPT
- Mar 2023Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
- Mar 2023CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers With Conditional Computation
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Apr 2023New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it
- May 2023OpenAI's plans according to sama
- Sep 2023The Eleuther AI Mafia
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- 244
RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
- Apr 2023Why Are Sinusoidal Functions Used for Position Encoding?
- Aug 2023Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Apr 2025Multi-Token Attention
- Apr 2025The Llama 4 herd
- Apr 2025Llama 4 Now Live on Groq
- Aug 2025Open models by OpenAI
- 245
Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Logic Gate Simulator
- Dec 2023Transformers on Chips
- Sep 2024GSoC'24: Differentiable Logic for Interactive Systems and Generative Music
- May 2025Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
- May 2025Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
- Nov 2025Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]
- Nov 2025TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
- 246
Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Zero shot translation learning
- Nov 2016Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Feb 2017Google's Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System
- Nov 2016Peeking into the architecture used for Google's Neural Machine Translation
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Mar 2017Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
- Jul 2017Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
- 247
Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
- Jul 2025Playing with Open Source LLMs
- Feb 2026Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
- Apr 2026We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- 248
Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents
- Jan 2025Show HN: Gemini 2 with unrestricted code execution
- Jul 2025Tools: Code Is All You Need
- Aug 2025Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
- Dec 2025Anthropic acquires Bun
- Aug 2026Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"
- Aug 2026Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"
- Aug 2026Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"
- 249
xVal: A Continuous Numerical Tokenization for Scientific Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Single Digit Tokenization improves LLM Math abilities by up to 70x
- Oct 2023Single Digit tokenization improves LLM math abilities by up to 70x
- Nov 2023Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
- Nov 2023Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- Mar 2024Integer Tokenization Is Insane (2023)
- Sep 2024AGI is far from inevitable
- Oct 2024Probably pay attention to tokenizers
- 250
Learning to reinforcement learn
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
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