Hacker Papers
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Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
- Dec 2023Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)
- Feb 2022Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete (2019)
- Aug 2019Rediscovering rules for ancient board games
- Jun 2020How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity
- Jun 2022AI Is Ushering in a New Scientific Revolution
- Dec 2022“Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game
- Jul 2023Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
- Dec 2023I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Win Rate
- Sep 2024Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true
- Jun 2026MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play magic
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Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback [pdf]
- Dec 2022Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Apr 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Jan 2023Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- May 2023Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Jun 2024Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- Sep 2026I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
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Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
- Dec 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Mar 2016Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust
- Jun 2016What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?
- Jun 2018Ask HN: Can you recommend any ML papers or blogs for visual art detection?
- Aug 2020China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Oct 2026We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
- 29
Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners: Let's think step by step
- May 2022Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Reasoners
- Jun 2022LaMDA is not sentient
- Feb 2023Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Jul 2023What we learned from using GPT for 500k+ classifications
- Oct 2023Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens
- Jul 2024Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency
- Mar 2025ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving
- Jan 2026LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
- 30
Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
- Jan 2015Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2013) [pdf]
- Jan 2014Deep Mind's neural networks play 7 Atari 2600 games with more skill than a human
- Jan 2014Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
- Jan 2014Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris
- Dec 2014Google's Intelligence Designer
- Jan 2015Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- May 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jan 2017CS 294 Deep Reinforcement Learning, Spring 2017
- Jan 2024Self-Rewarding Language Models
- 31
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022An Image Is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
- Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
- Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
- Jun 2023What Is a Transformer Model?
- Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
- Oct 2024Show HN: Doctly AI – Accurate AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Parser
- Jul 2025Baba Is Eval
- Sep 2026Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
- 32
Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space (2013)
- Aug 2013Learning the Meaning of Words
- Sep 2013word2vec in yhat: Word vector similarity
- Jun 2015Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
- Dec 2015John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video]
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Sep 2017What every software engineer should know about search
- Oct 2023Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
- May 2025A visual exploration of vector embeddings
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Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Nov 2017AI Safety: problem of accidents in machine learning systems
- Jun 2016Concrete AI Safety Problems
- May 2017The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
- Oct 2017OpenAI's Researchers: Protecting Against AI’s Existential Threat
- Oct 2018Ask HN: Examples of AI ethical principles?
- Nov 2019Safety Gym
- May 2021Anthropic AI
- Apr 2023Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
- Jul 2026Our position on open-weights models
- 34
Textbooks Are All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2023Textbooks is all you need: new LLM 51% HumanEval. Better one >10x more params
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Jul 2023Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
- Sep 2023Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective
- Oct 2023Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
- Nov 2023OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition
- Jul 2024Apple says it uses no Nvidia GPUs to train its AI models
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet
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ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
- Jan 2023ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
- Feb 2023ReAct – interesting paper on LLM prompt engineering
- Mar 2023Visual ChatGPT
- Mar 2023TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
- Apr 2023The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
- May 2023Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
- Jul 2023Langchain Is Pointless
- Sep 2023ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Sep 2026Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]
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Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Apr 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Apr 2023Stanford's Groundbreaking AI Study Simulates Authentic Human Behavior
- Apr 2023We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI
- Jul 2023Roleplaying with LLMs
- Sep 2023Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations
- Oct 2023Lamini LLM Finetuning on AMD ROCm: A Technical Recipe
- Nov 2024Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
- Jan 2026
- Aug 2026Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
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Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- Apr 2026Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space [pdf]
- Dec 2024Coconut from Meta lets language models think without words
- Dec 2024Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Apr 2025The Llama 4 herd
- Jun 2025Reasoning by Superposition: A Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
- Jun 2026Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking
- Sep 2026What is Nueralese and Why is it Bad
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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023LORA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- Oct 2026LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (2021)
- Mar 2023Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
- Mar 2023How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT
- Mar 2023LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- Sep 2023Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2024DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G
- Nov 2024LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence
- Aug 2026Claude: System Prompts
- 39
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
- Jun 2025The Illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
- Jul 2025OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
- Dec 2025Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
- Feb 2026I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."
- Mar 2026Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
- Oct 2026An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
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Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
- Feb 2024Hallucination Is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
- May 2026Hallucination Is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
- Feb 2024Ask HN: Has Generative AI plateaued?
- May 2024Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Sep 2024GPTs and Hallucination
- Oct 2024Yann LeCun Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
- Dec 2024AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)
- Jan 2026Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
- May 2026Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers
- Oct 2026“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
- 41
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
- Sep 2023AI Model Weight Providers Should Not Police Uses, No Matter How Awful They Are
- Oct 2024Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
- Dec 2025Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
- Jan 2026Claude's New Constitution
- Jan 2026Claude's New Constitution
- Sep 2026OpenAI Agents API
- 42
Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled: High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2014Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled
- Dec 2014Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled [pdf]
- Dec 2014Deep Learning Reading List
- Jun 2015Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may not be legal
- Nov 2015Impressive Demonstration of Facebook's AI by Yann LeCun
- May 2016IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson
- Jun 2016AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video]
- Oct 2016Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
- Jul 2017NO Need to Worry about Adversarial Examples for Autonomous Vehicles
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- 43
Think before you speak: Training Language Models With Pause Tokens
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens
- Oct 2023Want to get started with LLMs? Here's what you need to know
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- Mar 2024Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI
- Apr 2024Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead
- Jul 2024The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Claude 4
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- 44
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
- Oct 2017Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- Aug 2016Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Aug 2018Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
- Dec 2018Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
- Jan 2022Intuition is a “superpower”
- Apr 2022The singularity is close?
- Mar 2023And yet It Understands
- 45
Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Nov 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Dec 2021Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
- May 2022The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
- Oct 2023The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Mar 2024Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why
- Oct 2024GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
- Feb 2026GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
- Oct 2026“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
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DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Jan 2025DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
- Jan 2025DeepSeek temporarily limits registration to Chinese mobile numbers
- Jan 2025The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
- Jan 2025Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?
- Apr 2025In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
- Sep 2025The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
- 47
DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
- Jan 2025A path to O1 open source
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Confused about how DeepSeek hurts Nvidia
- Jan 2025Why DeepSeek had to be open source
- Feb 2025Step-Video-T2V: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model
- May 2025DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
- Feb 2026GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
- Mar 2026Mamba-3
- Jun 2026Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math
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Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Emergent World Representations in Neural Networks
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Mar 2023HN thread 35348353
- Apr 2023HN thread 35356648
- May 2023Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
- Jun 2024Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
- Apr 2026Where the Goblins Came From
- 49
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (2023)
- Jul 2023Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
- Aug 2023Language models use long contexts
- Jul 2023Llama 32K Context Released by Together AI
- Aug 2023What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Oct 2023Microsoft says GPT 3.5 has 20B parameters?
- Nov 2023Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale
- Apr 2024LLMs and the Harry Potter problem
- Jul 2026OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
- Aug 2026Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
- 50
Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
- May 2024Vision Transformers Need Registers
- May 2024Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- Feb 2026Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- Sep 2026How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Oct 2026I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
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