Hacker Papers
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Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Dec 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Dec 2023Mamba outperforms transformers "everywhere we tried"
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Feb 2024Mamba: The Easy Way
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data
- Jun 2024A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba
- Jul 2024Codestral Mamba
- Aug 2025GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
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How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
- Jul 2023(Databricks cofounder) How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
- Jul 2023How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
- Jul 2023GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better
- Aug 2023Why is OpenAI making ChatGPT increasingly dumber? What's the motivation?
- Aug 2023Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use
- Aug 2023Show HN: Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
- Sep 2023Study shows over time, ChatGPT lost accuracy
- Mar 2024DBRX: A new open LLM
- Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
- Sep 2026Ember-1
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A Watermark for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Aug 2026A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Jan 2023A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Jan 2023New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
- Mar 2023Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)
- Jul 2023A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure from the White House
- Jul 2024Meta Launches AI Studio in US
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
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DensePose From WiFi
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023DensePose from WiFi
- Jan 2023DensePose from WiFi Sensing: Full Body Tracking
- Jan 2023Accurate Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals and ML
- Jan 2023Accurate Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals
- Jan 2023WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What will be the first AI “incident”?
- Jul 2023French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics
- Sep 2023WiFi can read through walls
- May 2024Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 via IEEE 802.11bf standard
- Apr 2025BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
- Feb 2026WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
- 80
Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules by Sabour, Frosst, Geoffrey E Hinton (CapsNet))
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Hinton's 'Capsule Networks' Unveiled
- Nov 2017Google A.I. researchers develop alternative architecture for neural networks
- Nov 2017A Year in Computer Vision
- Dec 2017Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
- Feb 2018Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"
- Jun 2019Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- 81
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Palm: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways [pdf]
- Apr 2022Palm: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
- Jun 2022Palm: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
- Apr 2022Socratic Models – Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
- May 2022Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
- Jun 2022LaMDA is not sentient
- Oct 2022Large Language Models Can Self-Improve
- Nov 2022The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers
- Mar 2023Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a decline
- Mar 2023HN thread 35352653
- May 2023Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Revolutionary Scalable Model Architecture
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Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Leveraging Psychology for Large Language Models Enhancement via Emotional Prompt
- Sep 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Nov 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Sep 2023Redditor uses ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS
- Oct 2023Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into solving CAPTCHA
- Nov 2023HN thread 38357413
- Jan 2024Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
- Jan 2024Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots
- Jan 2025Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
- Feb 2026How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
- May 2026If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog
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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
- 84
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
- Apr 2023Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2015)
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Nov 2020A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
- Nov 2023Google is not a tech company
- Dec 2023LLM Visualization
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- May 2025When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 85
Thinking Like Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Thinking Like Transformers
- Jun 2023Thinking Like Transformers (pdf)
- Dec 2021The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning
- May 2023It's not just statistics: GPT-4 does reason
- Jun 2023From Word Models to World Models
- Aug 2023Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Feb 2026I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
- 86
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
- Jan 2024AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents"
- Jan 2024Two-Faced AI Language Models Learn to Hide Deception
- Jun 2024Anthropic: Expanding Access to Claude for Government
- Sep 2025Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
- Oct 2025NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
- Jun 2026The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
- Aug 2026Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor
- Oct 2026DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
- 87
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
- 88
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Jan 2015A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
- Jan 2015Image Kernels Explained Visually
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018For AI to thrive, it must explain itself
- Sep 2023Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool
- Mar 2024How do neural networks learn?
- Oct 2026Feature Visualization – How neural networks build understanding of images (2017)
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Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2016This AI Boom Will Also Bust
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Mar 2017Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Nov 2017Building A.I. That Can Build A.I
- Mar 2018Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- 90
An exact mapping between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
- Jul 2015An Exact Mapping Between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
- Dec 2014Deep Learning and Renormalization Group Thery
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Sep 2016Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
- Nov 2016Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Jun 2024How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
- May 2025Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
- 91
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
- Mar 2017Baidu Deep Voice Explained: Part 1 – the Inference Pipeline
- Oct 2017Finding Waldo Using Semantic Segmentation and Tiramisu
- May 2018Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
- Oct 2018A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
- Apr 2019Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?
- Aug 2022Show HN: Nevermind XOR – Deep Learning Has an Issue with Sin
- Jan 2026Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
- 92
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2016Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2019Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
- Sep 2016Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
- Oct 2016[MIT Lecture] Connections between physics and deep learning
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- May 2017Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Oct 2018How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- 93
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015New, more powerful Google Translate app
- Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Dec 2020AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
- Jun 2023What Are Embeddings?
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Apr 2025The Leaderboard Illusion
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
- Jun 2025Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt
- Jun 2025Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- Jun 2025League of Professional System Administrators - Board to Dissolve Organization
- Jun 2025Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
- Jun 2025Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI?
- Jan 2026Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant
- Mar 2026747s and Coding Agents
- Apr 2026The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
- Apr 2026AI chatbots could be making you stupider
- Jun 2026Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
- 95
Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
- Jan 2023Stable Diffusion Memorizes Training Points
- Feb 2023The AI Crowd Is Mad
- Feb 2023An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit
- Mar 2023Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive data
- Apr 2023Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs
- Jun 2023Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
- Nov 2023Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Jul 2025Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
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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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Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
- Sep 2016Google's Neural Machine Translation: Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines
- Sep 2016Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
- Oct 2016Learning Reinforcement Learning, with Code, Exercises, and Solutions
- Nov 2016Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
- Feb 2017Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
- Mar 2018Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
- 98
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
- 99
Formal Algorithms for Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Formal Algorithms for Transformers
- Jan 2023The Transformer Family
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
- May 2023Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- Jan 2024Relearning math as an adult
- Jun 2026Can I Buy Your KV Cache?
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LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Feb 2022Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ”
- Jun 2022LaMDA is not sentient
- Jun 2022Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview [pdf]
- Jul 2022Open-Source LaMDA Model
- Sep 2022Character.ai
- Feb 2023Ask HN: Does Google use the text inside gdocs and Gmail for training AI models?
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
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