Hacker Papers
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Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Aug 2016News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Oct 2019Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
- Mar 2025Optimizing ML training with metagradient descent
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Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets
- May 2023Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets
- Apr 2023Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Apr 2022Socratic Models – Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
- Feb 2023Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)
- Apr 2023DyLoRA: Parameter Efficient Tuning of Pre-Trained Models
- Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
- May 2024Groq surpasses 1,200 tokens/sec with Llama 3 8B
- Feb 2026Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
- Mar 2021Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
- Jan 2023Wolfram Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
- May 2023Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Around 75,000 Words
- Jun 2023Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
- Aug 2023GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi
- Aug 2023How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai
- Jul 2026We taught a small LLM to throw away 68% of our RAG context
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Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jun 2019Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017)
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jul 2017Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning
- Apr 2018Skynet Today – accessible and informed coverage of AI hype and panic
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Jul 2023FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm
- Dec 2023Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
- Dec 2023Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE
- Jun 2024AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
- 55
Amortized Planning with Large-Scale Transformers: A Case Study on Chess
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- Feb 2024Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- Feb 2024Grand-Master Level Chess Without Search: Modeling Choices and Their Implications
- Apr 2024EURISKO Lives
- Sep 2024Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
- Oct 2024Grandmaster-level chess without search
- Nov 2024Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess
- Nov 2024Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- Mar 2026Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
- 56
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?
- 57
People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
Hacker News threads
- May 2024People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
- Jun 2024People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
- Aug 2024Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
- Dec 2024GPT-5 is behind schedule
- Jan 2025Show HN: Killed by LLM – I catalogued AI benchmarks we thought would last years
- Feb 2025Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Apr 2025UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
- Oct 2025A definition of AGI
- Feb 2026Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
- May 2026Dear Richard Dawkins
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In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
- May 2017Dave Patterson: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit
- Jun 2017The Age of Nvidia
- Aug 2017Google TPU Performance Analysis
- Feb 2018Cloud TPUs in Beta
- Apr 2019Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
- Feb 2023Introduction to FPGAs
- Oct 2024Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
- Apr 2025Google is winning on every AI front
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LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models (2023)
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
- Mar 2023Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11
- Mar 2023The RWKV language model: An RNN with the advantages of a transformer
- Apr 2023The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
- May 2023OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
- Jun 2023OpenLLaMA 13B Released
- Sep 2023Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date, Apache 2.0
- Feb 2025Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
- 60
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Mutlimodal neural networks converge to a shared statistical model of reality
- Apr 2026The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
- May 2024Show HN: Tarsier – Vision utilities for web interaction agents
- May 2024Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
- Mar 2025Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
- Jul 2025Ask HN: Will AI models over time converge into the same system?
- Dec 2025The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- Mar 2026Language Model Contains Personality Subnetworks
- Mar 2026I tried Karpathy's Autoresearch on an old research project
- Jul 2026Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
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The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
- Jun 2023The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
- Jun 2023The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
- Jun 2023Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Jul 2023LLaMA2 isn't “Open Source” – and why it doesn't matter
- Nov 2023Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web
- Jan 2024The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
- Feb 2024Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
- Apr 2024Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
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Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) for Precise Zero-Shot Retrieval [pdf]
- Aug 2026Hypothetical Document Embeddings
- Jan 2023Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval Without Relevance Labels
- Jan 2023How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette
- Feb 2023I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation
- Mar 2023
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Dec 2023Build a search engine, not a vector DB
- May 2024Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
- Sep 2024Contextual Retrieval
- Aug 2026Don't classify, hallucinate!
- 63
BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023BitNet: Scaling 1-Bit Transformers for Large Language Models
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- May 2025Towards the Cutest Neural Network
- Mar 2026Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
- Jul 2026Neutrino-1 8B
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DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake-sleep Bayesian program learning
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023DreamCoder: Growing Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge
- Jun 2020DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with program learning
- Feb 2021DreamCoder, a system that learns to solve problems by writing programs
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- May 2021Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning
- Nov 2021GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town
- Feb 2022Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
- Feb 2022Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
- Jul 2022AI Coding with CodeRL: Toward Mastering Program Synthesis with Deep RL
- Sep 2023Doug Lenat has died
- May 2026Language Models Need Sleep
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Responses to Critiques on Machine Learning of Criminality Perceptions (Addendum of arXiv:1611.04135)
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images
- Nov 2016Automatic Racial Discrimination via Artificial Intelligence
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Aug 2017China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy
- Sep 2017Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation
- Feb 2018Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
- Jun 2019BIY: Believe It Yourself
- Dec 2019The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture
- May 2020HU facial recognition software predicts criminality
- Aug 2022America’s First Black Physician (2021)
- 66
"Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016“Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier [pdf]
- Apr 2016[pdf] Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
- Oct 2020Explaining black box models with LIME
- Sep 2016Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding
- Mar 2017War by any means: The story of DARPA
- Jul 2017Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots
- Dec 2017DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes with Deep Neural Networks
- Dec 2017A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
- Jul 2019Interpretable Machine Learning
- Apr 2020Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning
- Jun 2024No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides
- 67
Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Deep learning in neural networks: An overview
- Dec 2023Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
- Dec 2014Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Recommended Readings
- Dec 2014Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)
- Sep 2016Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
- Jan 2017AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future
- Jul 2018Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s
- Jun 2019Ask HN: Please suggest review papers in CS topics
- Nov 2023Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
- Sep 2024OpenAI to become for-profit company
- 68
The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
- Aug 2023How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?
- Nov 2023QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision
- Jan 2024Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
- Nov 2024AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia
- Jun 2026Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
- 69
On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures
Hacker News threads
- May 2019On the Turing Completeness of Modern NN Architectures (Transformer, Neural GPU)
- Jul 2020Is This a Turing Machine?
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2022Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Sep 2024Tinygrad will be the next Linux and LLVM
- Feb 2025Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
- 70
Model Cards for Model Reporting
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Aug 2023AI Nutrition Facts
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Dec 2024OpenAI o1 system card
- Jul 2025ChatGPT agent System Card [pdf]
- May 2026Grok 4.3
- Jun 2026System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]
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Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015Extending “Let It Go” with recurrent neural network
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Apr 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- May 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- Apr 2017Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
- Aug 2020An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
- Jan 2023Realistic Computer-Generated Handwriting
- Feb 2025Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs
- 72
A Neural Conversational Model
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2015Getting closer to 'Ex Machina' – A Neural Conversational Model by Google[pdf]
- Jun 2015Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy with Its Programmer
- Aug 2015A Beginner’s Guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- Jan 2016BotLibre – Free Open Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
- Mar 2016Generating Factoid Questions with RNNs: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
- Jun 2016The truth about deep learning
- Nov 2016Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
- Jan 2020Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
- Jun 2026What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?
- 73
One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2014One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
- Apr 2014Data Scientist Interviews
- Aug 2014ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition
- Nov 2015TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- May 2016NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
- Jul 2016Nvidia CEO Reveals New TITAN X at Stanford Deep Learning Meetup
- Feb 2020Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
- Jun 2022Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks
- 74
World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018World Models
- Mar 2018World Models
- Apr 2018A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper
- Jul 2018Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
- Nov 2019The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated
- Jun 2021DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI
- Jul 2021More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
- Feb 2026The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Aug 2025Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
- Aug 2025About AI
- Sep 2025AI coding
- Oct 2025Our efforts, in part, define us
- Oct 2025Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?
- Dec 2025If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
- Jan 2026Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
- Oct 2026Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
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