Hacker Papers
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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?
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Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
- Apr 2015Adversarial examples – Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2014Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples [problem with deep networks]
- Mar 2015Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Apr 2015Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
- Jun 2015Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
- Nov 2016Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-Of-the-Art Face Recognition [pdf]
- Jul 2017Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform
- Jul 2017A Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
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The Hardware Lottery
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020The Hardware Lottery
- Sep 2020The Hardware Lottery
- Sep 2020The Hardware Lottery
- Nov 2020Ride the Hardware Lottery
- Apr 2022Large-Scale Matrix Factorization on TPUs
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- Oct 2023Nvidia and Foxconn to build 'AI factories'
- Dec 2023A new old kind of R&D lab
- Apr 2025Multi-Token Attention
- May 2026A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
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Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2023Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model (2019)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Nov 2019AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
- Aug 2020AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
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Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
- Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
- Feb 2018Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI
- Nov 2019John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
- Feb 2023Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets Is Practical
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- May 2025Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
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Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Faster Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Jan 2023What a transformer can NOT do
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Jun 2024Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
- Jul 2024My Python code is a neural network
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Feb 2026Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
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Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Monolith: Real time recommendation system with collisionless embedding table
- Nov 2022TikTok published an article on their recommendation system architecture
- Nov 2022Paper on 'Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System' by Bytedance Inc (TikTok)
- Dec 2022TikTok’s Secret Sauce
- Jan 2023Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?
- Feb 2023The secret sauce of TikTok’s recommendations
- Nov 2023X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
- Dec 2024TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
- Jan 2025TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
- May 2025You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer
- Feb 2026TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
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Binarized Neural Networks: Training Deep Neural Networks with Weights and Activations Constrained to +1 or -1
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Stacked Approximated Regression Machine: A Simple Deep Learning Approach
- Oct 2016Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Sep 2017Nonlinear Computation in Deep Linear Networks
- Oct 2018MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Debiasing Word Embeddings
- Jul 2016Man Is to Computer Programmer as Woman Is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embedding
- Jan 2017Man to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
- Sep 2016A.I. Doesn't Get Black Twitter
- Jul 2017Ask HN: Any tools to easily cluster ideas/notes by similarity?
- Oct 2017Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem
- Mar 2018Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors
- Oct 2018Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything
- Jul 2019King – Man + Woman = King?
- Sep 2019600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
- Sep 2020FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord
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NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
- Jul 2021DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields
- Jan 2022Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding
- Sep 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
- Oct 2022Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
- Apr 2023HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields
- Oct 2025Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
- May 2026Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
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The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
- Feb 2018The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Jan 2020The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Aug 2018Learning Math for Machine Learning
- Oct 2021Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN?
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- Jul 2023The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Jan 2024Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
- Mar 2025Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
- 62
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2012Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors [pdf]
- Dec 2012Why use SVM
- Feb 2014Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
- May 2014What does a neural network actually do?
- Oct 2015Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Nov 2016Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
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Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
- 64
Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets [pdf]
- Feb 2018Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
- Jan 2019An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Feb 2024Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
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Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2024Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019)
- Oct 2019Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Feb 2020T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
- 67
Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
- Jul 2016Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
- Nov 2017Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
- Dec 2019DeepSpeech 0.6
- Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Aug 2023Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
- Dec 2025Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
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Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
- Dec 2016Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
- Dec 2016Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Oct 2017A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Dec 2018Why Robot Brains Need Symbols
- Jul 2019Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- 69
Decoding billions of integers per second through vectorization
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2012Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
- Sep 2012Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
- Jul 2013Fast integer compression in Java
- Feb 2017Multihash – self-describing hashes
- Sep 2017Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression
- Jun 2021Sorted Integer Compression
- Oct 202586 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)
- 70
Deep Neural Networks as Gaussian Processes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Using Self-Organizing Maps to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
- Jul 2018Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010)
- Jan 2020U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Jun 2023Any Deep ReLU Network Is Shallow
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
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Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
- Jan 2019Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- May 2014Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- Dec 2014Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
- Nov 2015Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Dec 2023Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013
- Aug 2026Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
- 72
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2017Densely Connected Convolutional Networks: CVPR 2017 Best Paper Award Winner
- Feb 2017Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
- Jul 2017Best paper award CVPR 2017 DenseNets
- Nov 2016MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Jun 2021Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
- Dec 2021DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
- Mar 2024DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers
- Sep 2025Automatic differentiation can be incorrect
- 73
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2018Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
- Jul 2018Evolving Floorplans
- Mar 2019Ask HN: Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?
- Oct 2019The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- Sep 2026We must pace the frontier
- 74
A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016[Legg, Hutter] a Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (2007)
- Nov 2022A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Dec 2021Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- May 2023Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil
- Oct 2023"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
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Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Jun 2021Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 know your phone number?
- Feb 2021Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
- Jul 2021All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
- Jun 2022Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
- Apr 2023Record Labels Panic as A.I. Generated Song Becomes Hit Single
- Sep 2026“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
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