Hacker Papers
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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
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What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Apr 2020What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Jul 2022I should have loved biology
- Apr 2023Gradients Are Not All You Need
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UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
- Aug 2018A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
- Aug 2018A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
- Dec 2018Let’s Try t-SNE
- Jan 2019Structure of recent philosophy (2017)
- Feb 2019Topological methods for unsupervised learning problems [video]
- Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
- Oct 2024Category Theory Illustrated: Logic (2021)
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Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Oct 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Sep 2019The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so
- Oct 2019Green AI
- Sep 2021Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns
- Oct 2021Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- Feb 2024I don't want anything your AI generates
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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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Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025The algo that advanced natural language processing and influenced OpenAI's LLMs
- Jan 2018Language Models for Classification (state of art on everything)
- Jan 2018Fine-Tuned Language Models for Text Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2018Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages
- May 2018State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models
- May 2018Our machine learning and NLP journey
- Jun 2018Improving Language Understanding with Unsupervised Learning
- Jul 2018NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training
- Jul 2020Classifying 200k articles in 7 hours using NLP
- Nov 2023OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition
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Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples
- Jun 2020Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Aug 2017Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Apr 2016I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf]
- Aug 2017Why Deep Learning surprises me
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Jan 2018Audio Adversarial Examples
- Mar 2018AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
- Oct 2019Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
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Adversarial Patch
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch
- Dec 2017Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- May 2018Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert
- Dec 2018Ask HN: Has anyone used adversarial patches for effect?
- Aug 2019Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries
- Jan 2020How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
- Apr 2020Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
- Mar 2024The Elements of Differentiable Programming
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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
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End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2015End-To-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
- May 2015End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies [pdf]
- May 2015‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- May 2015‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
- Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
- Dec 2015The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
- Apr 2016An AI First World
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- May 2017AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match
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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
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Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
- Nov 2019Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes
- Aug 2020Cellular Automata as Convolutional Neural Networks
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2021Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Jan 2024Transformers Are Multi-State RNNs
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FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015Google FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Mar 2015FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Apr 2016Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
- May 2016Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
- May 2017Machine Learning
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Aug 2018Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems
- Jul 2019FBI, ICE using state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition searches
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Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend
- Mar 2019Sikorsky’s autonomous helicopter tech is ready for takeoff
- Apr 2019Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Jul 2020Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
- Sep 2024Big Tech Sees Like a State (2020)
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Dropout as a Bayesian Approximation: Representing Model Uncertainty in Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks (1998)
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2017Braess’ paradox
- Nov 2017Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2018Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010)
- Jan 2023Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?
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Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Feb 2020JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
- Jun 2020Image GPT
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Oct 2024Faster convergence for diffusion models
- Oct 2025Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
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Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering, Using Deep Learning
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks [pdf]
- Mar 2015Facebook's Memory Networks Demo
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Jun 2015Hound voice search NLP demo [video]
- Aug 2015Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
- Sep 2015Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
- Jun 2016DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
- Oct 2025A History of Large Language Models
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An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Oct 2021An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2026An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (2018)
- Oct 2018Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
- Nov 2018Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
- Jun 2019A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
- Dec 2020Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2022Probabilistic Models of Cognition
- Aug 2023A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
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InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016InfoGAN: Representation Learning by Generative Adversarial Nets
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Aug 2016OpenAI Team Update
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
- Apr 2017Unsupervised sentiment neuron
- Sep 2017PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
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On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
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Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
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Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
- Dec 2016Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Nov 2017Closing the Simulation-to-Reality Gap for Deep Robotic Learning
- May 2020Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
- Jan 2024Barcoding Bees (2020)
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Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Adversarial Network
- Sep 2016Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
- Jul 2020Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
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Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]
- Dec 2019Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
- Dec 2019Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
- Jun 2020Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
- Jun 2020YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
- Jun 2020YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
- Jul 2020The TikTok War
- Sep 2020Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
- Dec 2020Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report says
- Dec 2020YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
- Aug 2021If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data
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XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
- Jun 2019The transformer “explained”?
- Jul 2019MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
- Aug 2019GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
- Aug 2019Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
- Aug 2020Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
- May 2022Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
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