Hacker Papers
- 301
Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System (2020)
- Feb 2021Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
- Dec 2020Show HN: Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Nov 2022Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
- Sep 2025What Is Complexity in Chess?
- 302
Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Pretraining on test set is all you need
- Feb 2025Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Claude 3 model family
- Apr 2024The "it" in AI models is the dataset
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Jul 2024Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- Feb 2025Grok3 Launch [video]
- 303
The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
- Jan 2023On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)
- Jul 2025Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs
- Aug 2025Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes
- Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- 304
Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on LLM
- Jul 2023Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
- Aug 2023Destroy Humanity Tutorial (ChatGPT Jailbreak)
- Dec 2023Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
- Jan 2024Attacks on machine learning models
- Aug 2025Prompting by Activation Maximization
- 305
Learning to summarize from human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Sep 2020Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Apr 2023Google DeepMind
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- 306
The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
- Jun 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
- May 2022The Next Decade in AI (2020)
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Oct 2022What “game over” for the latest paradigm in AI might look like
- Aug 2025GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
- 307
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Dec 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Dec 2023Mamba outperforms transformers "everywhere we tried"
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Feb 2024Mamba: The Easy Way
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data
- Jun 2024A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba
- Jul 2024Codestral Mamba
- Aug 2025GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
- 308
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
- 309
Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation W NextScale Prediction
- Oct 2024Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Image Generation via Next-Resolution Prediction
- Oct 2024Faster convergence for diffusion models
- Mar 20254o Image Generation
- Apr 2025No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- Apr 2025No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- May 2025Diffusion models explained simply
- Aug 2025Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
- 310
The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in How LLMs Represent Truth
- Oct 2023"Hallucinating" AIs Sound Creative, but Let's Not Celebrate Being Wrong
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What is your standard for judging when AGI exists?
- Nov 2023Rats have an imagination, new research suggests
- Nov 2023HN thread 38355930
- May 2024Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Sep 2024AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
- Sep 2024GPTs and Hallucination
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- 311
Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- Jun 2023Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- Jun 2023Stochastic Parrot
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- 312
A Time Leap Challenge for SAT Solving
Hacker News threads
- 313
MusicLM: Generating Music From Text
Hacker News threads
- 314
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Mar 2022Deep learning is hitting a wall?
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Sep 2022Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
- Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
- Oct 2023When Gradient Descent Is a Kernel Method
- 315
Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers
Hacker News threads
- 316
Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
- Jan 2023Stable Diffusion Memorizes Training Points
- Feb 2023The AI Crowd Is Mad
- Feb 2023An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit
- Mar 2023Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive data
- Apr 2023Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs
- Jun 2023Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
- Nov 2023Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Jul 2025Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
- 317
Theoretical Impediments to Machine Learning With Seven Sparks from the Causal Revolution
Hacker News threads
- 318
Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
- Jul 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
- Jul 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code (paper about GH copilot model)
- Jul 2021All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Dec 2021GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
- Jul 2022ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like
- May 2023Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
- Oct 2023Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
- Feb 2025AI is stifling new tech adoption?
- Jul 2025Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
- 319
Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
- Apr 2015Adversarial examples – Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2014Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples [problem with deep networks]
- Mar 2015Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Apr 2015Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
- Jun 2015Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
- Nov 2016Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-Of-the-Art Face Recognition [pdf]
- Jul 2017Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform
- Jul 2017A Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- 320
Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Feb 2025Mercury Coder: frontier diffusion LLM generating 1000+ tok/sec on commodity GPUs
- Mar 2025First large diffusion-based LLM
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Jul 2025Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
- 321
OTEANN: Estimating the Transparency of Orthographies with an Artificial Neural Network
Hacker News threads
- 322
Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Diffusion Transformer
- Feb 2024Sora: Creating video from text
- Feb 2024Stable Diffusion 3
- May 2025Gemini Diffusion
- Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models
- 323
Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- 324
NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
Hacker News threads
- 325
Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena
- Jul 2023LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT
- Oct 2023Show HN: Tonic Validate Metrics – an open-source RAG evaluation metrics package
- Dec 2023Gemini Pro achieves accuracy slightly inferior to GPT 3.5 Turbo
- Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
- Jun 2025LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust
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