Hacker Papers
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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
- 27
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
- 28
ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
Hacker News threads
- 29
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Jan 2015A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
- Jan 2015Image Kernels Explained Visually
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018For AI to thrive, it must explain itself
- Sep 2023Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool
- Mar 2024How do neural networks learn?
- Oct 2026Feature Visualization – How neural networks build understanding of images (2017)
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SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023SWE-Bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
- Feb 2024SWE-BENCH: Can language models resolve real-world GitHub issues?
- Jan 2024Researchers say generative AI isn't replacing devs any time soon
- Sep 2025Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
- Dec 2025Django: what’s new in 6.0
- Mar 2026Ask HN: Does code style matter much anymore?
- Oct 2026Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
- 31
SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025SynthID-Image: Invisibly Watermarking AI-Generated Imagery
- Apr 2026ChatGPT Images 2.0
- May 2026OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
- May 2026OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
- Jun 2026Appreciating Exif
- Oct 2026SynthID Detector
- 32
CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography [2017]
- Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
- Sep 2024Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tags
- Aug 2025How attention sinks keep language models stable
- Mar 2026No right to relicense this project
- Oct 2026Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
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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
- 34
Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Aug 2026Software engineering is about managing complexity
- Oct 2026I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
- 35
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
- Apr 2023TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with industry-leading efficiency
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator
- May 2023Nvidia DGX GH200: The First 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
- May 2025OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
- Jun 2025Basic Facts about GPUs
- Oct 2026Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
- 36
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 37
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (2025)
- Jul 2026Fields Medals 2026
- Sep 2026The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
- Oct 2026LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
- 38
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
- 39
Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
- Feb 2025Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)
- Apr 2025AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
- Oct 2025Reasoning is not model improvement
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Oct 2026How accurately calibrated is Jev?
- 40
Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2022(typo in URL, ignore)
- Jul 2022DeepMind: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent RL
- Dec 2022Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
- Oct 2025Poker Tournament for LLMs
- Oct 2026With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
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Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025CaMeL: Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers
- Jun 2025EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot
- Jul 2025Code execution through email: How I used Claude to hack itself
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Sep 2025Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
- Feb 2026Don't trust AI agents
- Jul 2026Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
- Oct 2026Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
- 42
Recursive Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Recursive Language Models
- Jan 2026General plug-and-play inference lib for RLMs
- Jan 2026Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
- Jan 2026MIT Researchers Destroy the Context Window Limit [video]
- Jan 2026Show HN: RLM-MCP Analyze Files in Claude Code Using MIT's recursive LM paper
- Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
- Apr 2026RLM: LLMs to process arbitrarily long prompts with inference-time scaling (2025)
- Jun 2026
- Oct 2026Context Language Models
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Attention Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Deep Neural Networks – Attention is all you need (No recurrence or convolutions)
- Jun 2017Attention Is All You Need (Neural Networks)
- Jun 2025Attention Is All You Need
- Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
- Apr 2020Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- May 2023Why the Original Transformer LLM Figure Is Wrong, and Other Interesting Tidbits
- Dec 2023Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
- Jan 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- Mar 2026Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
- Sep 2026The AI Race Just Got Awkward
- 44
Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
- Aug 2023Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Oct 2023Why Generative AI Is Currently Doomed
- Apr 2024Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
- Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 45
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
- 46
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
- 47
Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Will we run out of data to train LLMs?
- Nov 2022We might run out of language data to train ML models soon [pdf]
- Dec 2022An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning
- Dec 2022Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
- Dec 2023Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
- Sep 2025Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 48
TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)
- May 2023TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
- May 2023How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
- May 2023Apple bans ChatGPT use by employees, report says
- Jun 2023Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Oct 2023Disney Packed Big Emotion into a Little Robot
- Jan 2024Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
- May 2024“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Sep 2026MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
- 49
Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
- Feb 2026Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? (2023)
- May 2023Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage', Stanford Study Says
- Jun 2023OpenLLaMA 13B Released
- Dec 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
- Apr 2024Choose your weapon: Survival strategies for depressed AI academics
- May 2025Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
- Mar 2026Are LLMs not getting better?
- Sep 2026AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
- 50
How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
- Jul 2023(Databricks cofounder) How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
- Jul 2023How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
- Jul 2023GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better
- Aug 2023Why is OpenAI making ChatGPT increasingly dumber? What's the motivation?
- Aug 2023Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use
- Aug 2023Show HN: Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
- Sep 2023Study shows over time, ChatGPT lost accuracy
- Mar 2024DBRX: A new open LLM
- Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
- Sep 2026Ember-1
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