Hacker Papers

1. 701
   

   Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces

   Albert Gu et al. · 2021

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   • Sep 2023Ask HN: Transformer alternatives that could have emergent properties when scaled
   • Feb 2024A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
   • Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention

   arXiv ↗
2. 702
   

   Deep Symbolic Regression for Recurrent Sequences

   Stéphane d'Ascoli et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2022Deep symbolic regression for recurrent sequences
   • Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
   • Mar 2022GPT-3 can run code

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3. 703
   

   Memory-assisted prompt editing to improve GPT-3 after deployment

   Aman Madaan et al. · 2022

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   • Mar 2022GPT-3 can run code
   • Dec 2022Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
   • Jan 2023What Is AGI-Hard

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4. 704
   

   Model soups: averaging weights of multiple fine-tuned models improves accuracy without increasing inference time

   Mitchell Wortsman et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2024Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization
   • Mar 2026NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
   • Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
   • Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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5. 705
   

   Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

   Xuezhi Wang et al. · 2022

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   • Mar 2022GPT-3 can run code
   • Sep 2023A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge
   • Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

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6. 706
   

   Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

   Jean-Baptiste Alayrac et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2022DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
   • Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
   • Oct 2025OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series

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7. 707
   

   Flow Matching for Generative Modeling

   Yaron Lipman et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2025Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
   • Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models
   • Jul 2026Show HN: Flow Matching model inference in C

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8. 708
   

   Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference

   Reiner Pope et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2023AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen
   • Jul 2023Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4
   • Feb 2024Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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9. 709
   

   Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models

   Armen Aghajanyan et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2023Planning for AGI and Beyond
   • Mar 2023Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters)
   • Apr 2025Liquid: Language models are scalable and unified multi-modal generators

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10. 710
    

    Tracr: Compiled Transformers as a Laboratory for Interpretability

    David Lindner et al. · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2023Why Can't Little Chatty Do Math?
    • Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
    • Dec 2023Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models

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11. 711
    

    G-Eval: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment

    Yang Liu et al. · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
    • Dec 2024Garvata: Observability and Debugging for AI Agent Stack
    • May 2025Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

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12. 712
    

    Visual Instruction Tuning

    Haotian Liu et al. · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2023Vowels and Diphthongs in Sperm Whales
    • Apr 2024Suggest HN: Rabbit r1 AI device for blind or visually impaired people?
    • May 2024PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google

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13. 713
    

    Simple and Controllable Music Generation

    Jade Copet et al. · 2023

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    • Jun 2023MusicGen-Looper: Generate fixed-bpm loops from text prompts
    • Mar 2025Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers
    • Oct 2025Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?

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14. 714
    

    Efficient Guided Generation for Large Language Models

    Brandon T. Willard, Rémi Louf · 2023

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    • Aug 2023Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
    • May 2024Mistral Fine-Tune
    • Jan 2026LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

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15. 715
    

    Emergent Linear Representations in World Models of Self-Supervised Sequence Models

    Neel Nanda et al. · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2024Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency
    • Nov 2024Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model
    • Dec 2024Alignment faking in large language models

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16. 716
    

    The Benefits of a Concise Chain of Thought on Problem-Solving in Large Language Models

    Matthew Renze, Erhan Guven · 2024

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2025Sketch-of-Thought: Efficient LLM Reasoning
    • Apr 2026Talk like caveman
    • Jul 2026Autistic Caveman: Why use many token when correct token do trick

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17. 717
    

    LLMs Can't Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks

    Subbarao Kambhampati et al. · 2024

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    • Oct 2024Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
    • Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
    • Dec 2025If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?

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18. 718
    

    OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

    Moo Jin Kim et al. · 2024

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    • Aug 2024OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
    • Nov 2024A Revolution in How Robots Learn
    • Jan 2025Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth

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19. 719
    

    Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs

    Shengbang Tong et al. · 2024

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    • Jun 2024Cambrian-1 an Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs
    • Jan 2025DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
    • Feb 2025Why LLMs still have problems with OCR

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20. 720
    

    LiCoEval: Evaluating LLMs on License Compliance in Code Generation

    Weiwei Xu et al. · 2024

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    • Apr 2025Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
    • Dec 2025Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
    • Sep 2026Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

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21. 721
    

    Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models

    Melody Y. Guan et al. · 2024

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    • May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
    • May 2026The Gay Jailbreak Technique
    • Jun 2026The US lifts its block on Mythos 5

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22. 722
    

    OLMoTrace: Tracing Language Model Outputs Back to Trillions of Training Tokens

    Jiacheng Liu et al. · 2025

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    • Apr 2025OLMoTrace: Tracing Language Model Outputs Back to Trillions of Training Tokens
    • May 2025Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
    • Sep 2026On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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23. 723
    

    ARC-AGI-2: A New Challenge for Frontier AI Reasoning Systems

    Francois Chollet et al. · 2025

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    • Jun 2025OpenAI o3-pro
    • Jul 2025New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning with just 1,000 examples
    • Jul 2026Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

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24. 724
    

    A Theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence based on Algorithmic Complexity

    Marcus Hutter · 2000

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    • Jan 2016Building AI
    • Jun 2021Reward Is Unnecessary [pdf]
    • Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

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