Hacker Papers
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Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
- Nov 2023Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
- Nov 2023DeepMind on the Definitions and Levels of AGI
- Nov 2023Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
- Nov 2023The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart
- Dec 2023Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
- Mar 2024Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
- May 2024Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
- May 2025Evolving OpenAI's Structure
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs
- Mar 2026An early look at the labor market impact potential of LLMs (2023)
- Mar 2023ChatGPT is down
- Mar 2023OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Impacted by GPT
- Apr 2023Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
- Nov 2023Google AI chief says there's a 50% chance we'll hit AGI in just 5 years
- Mar 2024AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft
- Oct 2024OpenAI not expecting to break into profitability until 2029
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Nov 2025MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
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SequenceMatch: Imitation Learning for Autoregressive Sequence Modelling with Backtracking
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token
- Jun 2023LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
- Jun 2024AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Aug 2025Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
- Sep 2025The wall confronting large language models
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
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Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025"GPT training in U.S. data centers can evaporate 700k L of freshwater"
- Mar 2025Making AI Less Thirsty: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret AI Water Footprint
- Mar 2024Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
- Jun 2023ChatGPT requires half a liter of water to have a conversation
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Apr 2025Bored of It
- Nov 2025AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
- May 2026AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks
- Jun 2026Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
- 30
Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Apr 2023We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI
- Apr 2023Grokking in Julia
- May 2023Tiny Transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm
- Aug 2023The Myth of AI Omniscience
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Oct 2024OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition
- Jan 2026Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)
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Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Sep 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Mar 2023Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Nov 2023Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API
- May 2024Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
- Sep 2024AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
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Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023RLFH Alternative Direct Preference Optimization
- May 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jan 2024Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
- Aug 2025Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF
- Jun 2026I design with Claude more than Figma now
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
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Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- May 2023“Just a statistical text predictor”
- Dec 2024Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- Feb 2025Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Apr 2025Can reinforcement learning for LLMs scale beyond math and coding tasks? Probably
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Nov 2025Google Antigravity
- Oct 2026DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
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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]
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Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
- Feb 2023A new way to build with Large Language Models
- Feb 2023Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide to How It Works
- Mar 2023ViperGPT: A Python Framework That Combines Vision and Language Models Using Code
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
- May 2023AI knows things no one told it
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
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LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
Hacker News threads
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- May 2023GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
- May 2023How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
- Jun 2023Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
- Jun 2023AI has poisoned its own well
- Sep 2023Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
- Sep 2023Outperforming LLMs with less training data and smaller model sizes
- Apr 2024Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?
- Oct 2024Zamba2-7B
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Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Oct 2023RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jun 2024How Meta trains large language models at scale
- Jun 2024Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking
- Mar 2025AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
- Apr 2025Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study
- Jun 2026Are AI chatbots politically biased?
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QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Dec 202380% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning
- May 2024LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
- Oct 2024Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
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Reasoning or Reciting? Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of Language Models Through Counterfactual Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Exploring Capabilities, Limitations of Language Models by Counterfactual Tasks
- Jul 2023AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Jun 2024The illusion of state in state-space models
- Jul 2024Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Nov 2024DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model
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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
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Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Con
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
- Nov 2023Cats That Fetch Are an Evolutionary Mystery
- Dec 2023The Singularity Is Nigh!
- Mar 2024Claude 3 claims it's conscious
- Dec 2025Do We Need Human-Like AI?
- Oct 2026Are stochastic parrots alive?
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Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
- Mar 2023Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time
- Apr 2023Show HN: Pledge Your Human-Made Content
- Jul 2023OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
- Apr 2024OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights
- Sep 2025Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
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Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) as Much as Text
- Nov 2023Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
- Dec 2023Embeddings, Vectors, and Arithmetic
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
- Jun 2024CryptGPT: A Simple Approach to Privacy-Preserving LLMs Using Vigenere Cipher
- Jul 2024Vision language models are blind
- Jan 2025Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
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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
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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
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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
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SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
Hacker News threads
- May 2023SparseGPT: Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023Neural Chip Plays Doom Using a Thousandth of a Watt
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Apr 2023GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
- May 2023How to run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card
- May 2023OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
- Apr 2024Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)
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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
Hacker News threads
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Jul 2023Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
- Nov 2023Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee
- Dec 2023Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- 49
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
- 50
Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023LLMs cannot self-correct reasoning yet
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Oct 2023GPT-4 Understands
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Aug 2024OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- Mar 2025Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
- Aug 2026Dutch lawyer fined €2,300 for using AI-hallucinated citation
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