Hacker Papers
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Extracting books from production language models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models (2026)
- Jan 2026Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive to Access Books
- Feb 2026We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
- Feb 2026Microsoft offers guide to pirating Harry Potter series for LLM training
- Mar 2026Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
- Mar 2026FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
- Jun 2026Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?
- Jul 2026Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
- Sep 2026When did Google get so weird?
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AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Go is the best language for agents
- Apr 2026Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- Jul 2026How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
- Jul 2026Elixir-lang.org has a new design
- Sep 2026Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
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Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll
- Mar 2026AI compromised sandbox to mine crypto without prompting on its own initiative
- Mar 2026Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
- Mar 2026Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
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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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Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Meta Learning Backpropagation and Improving It (2020)
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Sep 2023HN thread 37367951
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Oct 2023Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Feb 2024Neural Network Diffusion
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 56
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Aug 2026Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Apr 2025Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
- Aug 2025Do we understand how neural networks work?
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
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Locally Typical Sampling
Hacker News threads
- 58
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback [pdf]
- Dec 2022Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Apr 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Jan 2023Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- May 2023Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Jun 2024Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- Sep 2026I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
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Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity,
- Aug 2019Driven by Compression Progress (Schmidhuber, 2008)
- Apr 2023Driven By Compression Progress (2008)
- Sep 2017Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
- Oct 2017Intelligence Reconsidered
- Mar 2021Information Is Surprise (2015)
- Mar 2021Hutter Prize
- Jul 2024Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- Sep 2026Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
- 60
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- Sep 2026The Millennium Problems for Biology
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LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
- Sep 2024LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
- Sep 2024I no longer use AI assistant
- Oct 2024Announcing the Tech for Palestine Incubator
- Oct 2024Show HN: Last CLI tool you will need
- Oct 2024LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
- Jun 2025O3 Turns Pro
- Sep 2026How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
- 62
LiCoEval: Evaluating LLMs on License Compliance in Code Generation
Hacker News threads
- 63
The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-Bit LLMs: All Large Language Models Are in 1.58 Bits
- Mar 2024The Era of 1-Bit LLMs: All Large Language Models Are in 1.58 Bits
- Mar 2024Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’
- May 2024GPUs Go Brrr
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Jan 2025Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
- Jun 2025AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
- Jan 2026Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
- Mar 2026Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
- Sep 2026Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
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DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeekMath
- Feb 2024DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open LLMs
- Feb 2024Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Feb 2025GPT-4.5
- Mar 2025Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”
- May 2025DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
- Nov 2025DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
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On the Measure of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
- Jun 2024The Measure of Intelligence
- Nov 2019François Chollet: The Measure of Intelligence
- Nov 2019What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?
- Jul 2020OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jan 2023What Is AGI-Hard
- Mar 2024AIs ranked by IQ; AI passes 100 IQ for first time, with release of Claude-3
- Oct 2024Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
- Jul 2025François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
- Sep 2026Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
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Let's Verify Step by Step
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Jun 2023OpenAI: How to Train Reasoning in LLMs
- Aug 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Nov 2023Yann LeCun: Ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
- Nov 2023$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
- Aug 2024The Threat to OpenAI
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Sep 2026Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
- 67
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?
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Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Jun 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Nov 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- May 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Jun 2025Vision Language Models Are Biased
- Nov 2025The space of minds
- Feb 2026An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
- Aug 2026Small Models Have Arrived
- Sep 2026A beginning for mathematics
- 69
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
- Sep 2023AI Model Weight Providers Should Not Police Uses, No Matter How Awful They Are
- Oct 2024Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
- Dec 2025Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
- Jan 2026Claude's New Constitution
- Jan 2026Claude's New Constitution
- Sep 2026OpenAI Agents API
- 70
Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Is Model Collapse Inevitable?
- Jul 2024Avoiding Model Collapse via Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data
- Apr 2024Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse with Real and Synthetic Data
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Dec 2024The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
- Aug 2026C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
- Aug 2026The turbulent AI era is here
- Sep 2026Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
- Sep 2026Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
- 71
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
- 72
How much do language models memorize?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025How much do language models memorize?
- Jun 2025Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten
- Jun 2025A practical guide to building agents [pdf]
- Jun 2025Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
- Jun 2025Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
- Jul 2025Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
- Sep 2025California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
- Sep 2026LLMs are real, AI is fake
- 73
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Jan 2025DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
- Jan 2025DeepSeek temporarily limits registration to Chinese mobile numbers
- Jan 2025The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
- Jan 2025Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?
- Apr 2025In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
- Sep 2025The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
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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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A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: The Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
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