Hacker Papers
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Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
- Aug 2023Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Oct 2023Why Generative AI Is Currently Doomed
- Apr 2024Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
- Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
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Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2020At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold
- Sep 2020The Collatz Conjecture: the simple math problem we still can’t solve
- Nov 2020AI Expert Roadmap
- Jan 2021DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
- Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
- Jul 2024AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
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Why Language Models Hallucinate
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Mar 2026Why Language Models Hallucinate (2025)
- Sep 2025OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable
- Sep 2025What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
- Oct 2025GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
- Dec 2025Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
- Feb 2026Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
- May 2026OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable (Sept. 2025)
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Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Improving Text Rendering in Image Generation Models
- Dec 2022What ChatGPT Can't Do
- Feb 2023Illusion Diffusion: Optical Illusions Using Stable Diffusion
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
- Oct 2023DALL-E 3: Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
- Mar 2024Ask HN: Why can't image generation models spell?
- 80
Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023LLMs cannot self-correct reasoning yet
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Oct 2023GPT-4 Understands
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Aug 2024OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- Mar 2025Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
- Aug 2026Dutch lawyer fined €2,300 for using AI-hallucinated citation
- 81
Were RNNs All We Needed?
Hacker News threads
- 82
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
- 83
More Agents Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
- Feb 2024More Agents Is All You Need
- Feb 2024More Agents Is All You Need
- Mar 2024Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark
- Apr 2024Storm: LLM system that researches a topic and generates full-length wiki article
- Aug 2024AI agents but they're working in big tech
- Sep 2024Learning to Reason with LLMs
- Jan 2025Agents Are Not Enough
- 84
Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
- 85
Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Oct 2021GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
- Jun 2022Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code
- Dec 2022Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy
- Jan 2023It's Plausible, but Is It True?
- 86
Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jun 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- Aug 2025My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Jul 2026Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos
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Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
- Nov 2023Extracting Training Data from LLMs
- Nov 2023Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
- Dec 2023Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Feb 2024Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
- Oct 2025What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
- Nov 2025The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
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LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Jul 2023LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Mar 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Can tokenizers go from fixed length tokens to varying length?
- Jul 2025Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- 89
SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023SWE-Bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
- Feb 2024SWE-BENCH: Can language models resolve real-world GitHub issues?
- Jan 2024Researchers say generative AI isn't replacing devs any time soon
- Sep 2025Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
- Dec 2025Django: what’s new in 6.0
- Mar 2026Ask HN: Does code style matter much anymore?
- Oct 2026Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
- 90
Dissociating language and thought in large language models
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Dissociating language and thought in large language models
- Jan 2023Dissociating language and thought in LLMs: a cognitive perspective
- Feb 2023Dissociating language, thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective
- Feb 2023I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
- Feb 2023Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models (2021)
- Apr 2023Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Jul 2023A Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- 91
Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2014Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
- May 2015Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript
- Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
- Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
- Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
- Sep 2015AI Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
- Nov 2015Watch an AI bot play Go [video]
- 92
RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres
- Mar 2024Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres
- Mar 2024Raptor: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval
- Mar 2024Show HN: Out-of-the-box text classification models
- May 2024Systematically Improving Your RAG
- May 2024Ask HN: RAG and unstructured data from several docs
- Sep 2024Contextual Retrieval
- Sep 2024Contextual Retrieval
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Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Jan 2026Repeating your prompt twice before sending it to an LLM improves accuracy
- Mar 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Feb 2026"Car Wash" test with 53 models
- Mar 2026Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Mar 2026LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
- Mar 2026Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Sep 2026Lichen – A local, BOY model system1 (Jev) server with image support
- 94
Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?
- May 2025Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jul 2025Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)
- Jul 2025Ask HN: Why haven't we seen AI as opponents in video games?
- Oct 2025Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
- 95
Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023The tide is shifting: 1.3B outperforms 7B Llama 2
- Sep 2023Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
- Sep 2023Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
- Sep 2023Outperforming LLMs with less training data and smaller model sizes
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
- Nov 2023MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?
- Jan 2024Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT
- Jan 2024Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
- Jan 2024A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models
- 96
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
- 97
Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs might learn from Cyc
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc
- Sep 2023Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc
- Aug 2023Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc
- Sep 2023Doug Lenat has died
- Sep 2023Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in LLMs
- Sep 2023Lenat and Cyc
- Jun 2024ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
- Nov 2024LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns
- Apr 2025Obituary for Cyc
- 98
Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
- Jun 2020How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
- Jun 2020Much More Efficient Self-Play Learning in Go
- Jun 2020Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia
- Nov 2022Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
- 99
Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Feb 2025Mercury Coder: frontier diffusion LLM generating 1000+ tok/sec on commodity GPUs
- Mar 2025First large diffusion-based LLM
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Jul 2025Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
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Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue
Hacker News threads
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