Hacker Papers
- 326
Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
- Jan 2019Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs (2016) [pdf]
- Apr 2018Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs (2016)
- Dec 2016How to Steal an AI (reverse engineer machine-learning)
- Dec 2016Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
- Jan 2017Amazon AI
- Mar 2017Cloud Video Intelligence API
- Mar 2017Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeline look like?
- Mar 2017I reverse-engineered a $500M Artificial Intelligence company in one week
- Jun 2018Attacks against machine learning – an overview
- 327
One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- May 2016One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
- Jun 2016The truth about deep learning
- Jun 2016AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video]
- Nov 2016Show HN: DeepRhyme (D-Prime) – Generating dope rhymes with machine learning
- Nov 2016Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for NLP models
- Dec 2016This AI Boom Will Also Bust
- Dec 2016Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- 328
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]
- Dec 2018Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
- Feb 2019Nvidias recent face generation deep neural network (keep refreshing)
- Feb 2019This person does not exist
- Feb 2019This person does not exist
- Feb 2019Show HN: Fake Profile Picture Generator
- Feb 2019This Waifu Does Not Exist
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Oct 2021Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature
- 329
Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Jan 2026Repeating your prompt twice before sending it to an LLM improves accuracy
- Mar 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Feb 2026"Car Wash" test with 53 models
- Mar 2026Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Mar 2026LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
- Mar 2026Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Sep 2026Lichen – A local, BOY model system1 (Jev) server with image support
- 330
Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?
- May 2025Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jul 2025Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)
- Jul 2025Ask HN: Why haven't we seen AI as opponents in video games?
- Oct 2025Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
- 331
Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023The tide is shifting: 1.3B outperforms 7B Llama 2
- Sep 2023Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
- Sep 2023Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
- Sep 2023Outperforming LLMs with less training data and smaller model sizes
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
- Nov 2023MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?
- Jan 2024Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT
- Jan 2024Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
- Jan 2024A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models
- 332
How much do language models memorize?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025How much do language models memorize?
- Jun 2025Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten
- Jun 2025A practical guide to building agents [pdf]
- Jun 2025Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
- Jun 2025Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
- Jul 2025Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
- Sep 2025California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
- Sep 2026LLMs are real, AI is fake
- 333
Mixtral of Experts
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model
- Feb 2024Mistral AI launches Mixtral-Next
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
- Nov 2024TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters
- Dec 2024What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
- Jul 2026Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks
- Jul 2026Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
- 334
One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Nov 2017New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Oct 2018What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- May 2023Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
- 335
Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs might learn from Cyc
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc
- Sep 2023Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc
- Aug 2023Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc
- Sep 2023Doug Lenat has died
- Sep 2023Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in LLMs
- Sep 2023Lenat and Cyc
- Jun 2024ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
- Nov 2024LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns
- Apr 2025Obituary for Cyc
- 336
Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
- Jun 2020How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
- Jun 2020Much More Efficient Self-Play Learning in Go
- Jun 2020Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia
- Nov 2022Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
- 337
Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs
- Sep 2020Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2024A new type of neural network is more interpretable
- Aug 2024Fun times with energy-based models
- Feb 2025Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
- 338
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
- 339
Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue
Hacker News threads
- 340
Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Is Model Collapse Inevitable?
- Jul 2024Avoiding Model Collapse via Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data
- Apr 2024Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse with Real and Synthetic Data
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Dec 2024The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
- Aug 2026C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
- Aug 2026The turbulent AI era is here
- Sep 2026Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
- Sep 2026Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
- 341
Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
- Sep 2023Chinchilla’s Death
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Aug 2024IsoFLOP curves of large language models are flat
- Jan 2025FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 342
Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
- Feb 2020Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models, Use Interpretable Models [pdf]
- Apr 2020Ode to J
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Jun 2022Shapash – Python library to make machine learning interpretable
- Apr 2024'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
- 343
Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with APIs
- Jun 2023Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with APIs
- May 2023Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs
- Jun 2023Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
- Jun 2023OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program
- Jun 2023RedPajama 7B (an Apache 2.0-licensed LLaMa) is now available
- Jun 2023OpenLLaMA 13B Released
- Aug 2023Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs
- Sep 2023RestGPT
- 344
Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- Jun 2025A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
- Jun 2025AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Apr 2026
- 345
Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training
- May 2023RedPajama (Open LLaMA Replication) 3B and 7B models released
- May 2023PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
- May 2023How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
- Jul 2023
- Dec 2023Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models
- Jan 2025Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
- 346
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jun 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jul 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Apr 2022The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best
- Nov 2023Understanding Deep Learning
- 347
xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
Hacker News threads
- May 2024xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
- May 2024Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- Jun 2024xLSTM code release by NX-AI
- Oct 2024Were RNNs all we needed?
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- 348
Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance
- Feb 2025The Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
- Feb 2024Should We Respect LLMs? Studying the Influence of Politeness on LLM Performance
- Sep 2025A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
- Sep 2025Qwen3-VL
- Feb 2026Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
- 349
Defending Against Neural Fake News
Hacker News threads
- May 2019“Defending Against Neural Fake News” (Check Out the Samples in the Appendix)
- May 2019Defending Against Neural Fake News (Using GPT to Generate Fake News and Demo)
- Jun 2019Defending Against Neural Fake News [pdf]
- Jun 2019New AI Generates Horrifyingly Plausible Fake News
- Jun 2019Grover – A State-of-the-Art Defense Against Neural Fake News
- Aug 2019GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
- Nov 2019OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model
- May 2020Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
- 350
Let's Verify Step by Step
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Jun 2023OpenAI: How to Train Reasoning in LLMs
- Aug 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Nov 2023Yann LeCun: Ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
- Nov 2023$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
- Aug 2024The Threat to OpenAI
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Sep 2026Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
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