Hacker Papers
- 526
Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention
Hacker News threads
- 527
A Definition of AGI
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025A definition of AGI
- Oct 2025What is intelligence? (2024)
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025Scientists can't define consciousness, yet we think AI will have it
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Nov 2025Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?
- 528
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- Jun 2026The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs
- May 2023What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups
- May 2023HN thread 36136318
- Jun 2023OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2026Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models
- 529
Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Can large language models reason about medical questions?
- Jan 2023GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say
- Jan 2023Google and DeepMind just launched MedPaLM, a large language model
- Jan 2023An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- 530
A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Sep 2019Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
- Nov 2019Quantum advantage, or a practical demonstration that quantum computers work
- 531
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2026GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Aug 2025A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents [pdf]
- Oct 2025Claude Skills
- Oct 2025The case for the return of fine-tuning
- Feb 2026Agent Skills
- Feb 2026Optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing Any Text Parameter
- 532
Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities [pdf]
- Apr 2015Internet trolls: Proactive policing
- Apr 2015Internet trolls: Proactive policing
- Apr 2015Internet trolls: Proactive policing
- Jun 2015European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ comments
- Jun 2015Fighting spam with Haskell
- Aug 2016News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
- 533
Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
- Jun 2020Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
- Jun 2020Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
- Jan 2021Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
- Sep 2021Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020)
- 534
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016The Mythos of Model Interpretability
- Feb 2017Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence
- Jan 2020Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
- Jan 2020Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
- Jan 2020A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- 535
Superhuman performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Dec 2024Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Jan 2025Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Jan 2025Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
- Jan 2025Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
- May 2025The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
- May 2026OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
- 536
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Hacker News threads
- 537
ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
- Dec 2018ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
- Dec 2018Waymo tests AI driving system that learns from labeled data
- Dec 2018Waymo – Learning to Drive: Beyond Pure Imitation
- Jan 2019Report: Tesla using behavior cloning/supervised imitation learning for Autopilot
- Nov 2019Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]
- 538
Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- May 2025Will supercapacitors come to AI's rescue?
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Jul 2025MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System
- May 2026Language Models Need Sleep
- 539
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019Albert: A Lite Bert for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
- Jan 2020ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Dec 2020Scaling Down Deep Learning
- Jun 2022Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
- 540
Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Sep 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Aug 2025LLMs' "simulated reasoning" abilities are a "brittle mirage," researchers find
- Aug 2025From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- May 2026Three Inverse Laws of AI
- 541
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-Constant Number of Poison Samples
- Oct 2025Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- Nov 2025PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
- Jan 2026LeCun calls Alex Wang inexperienced, predicts more Meta AI employee departure
- Jan 2026AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
- 542
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
- 543
Persistent Pre-Training Poisoning of LLMs
Hacker News threads
- 544
A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer
Hacker News threads
- 545
That Chip Has Sailed: A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024That Chip Has Sailed: Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
- Nov 2024A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
- Nov 2024AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design
- Nov 2024AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design
- Dec 2024Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
- Dec 2024Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
- Feb 2025Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
- 546
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021Zero-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- May 2023Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
- Oct 2023Why async gradient update doesn't get popular in LLM community?
- 547
Users prefer Guetzli JPEG over same-sized libjpeg
Hacker News threads
- 548
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- 549
BBQ: A Hand-Built Bias Benchmark for Question Answering
Hacker News threads
- 550
ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
Hacker News threads
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