Hacker Papers
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Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System (2020)
- Feb 2021Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
- Dec 2020Show HN: Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Nov 2022Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
- Sep 2025What Is Complexity in Chess?
- 102
Tabular Data: Deep Learning is Not All You Need
Hacker News threads
- 103
Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Diffusion Transformer
- Feb 2024Sora: Creating video from text
- Feb 2024Stable Diffusion 3
- May 2025Gemini Diffusion
- Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models
- 104
A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer
Hacker News threads
- 105
Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2021Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
- Jun 2021Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
- Jun 2022Bolt: Faster matrix and vector operations that run on compressed data
- Jun 2022Bolt: Faster matrix and vector operations that run on compressed data
- Nov 2023Show HN: Stella Nera – Maddness Hardware Accelerator
- May 2024Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c
- 106
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021Zero-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- May 2023Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
- Oct 2023Why async gradient update doesn't get popular in LLM community?
- 107
What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023What Learning Algorithm Is IN-Context Learning?
- Feb 2023What Learning Algorithm Is In-Context Learning? Linear-Models Investigations
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Mar 2023Solving a Machine-Learning Mystery
- Apr 2023GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A
- 108
BBQ: A Hand-Built Bias Benchmark for Question Answering
Hacker News threads
- 109
High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Nov 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Oct 2022Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
- Nov 2022Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
- Nov 2022New Mac app wants to record everything you do–so you can “rewind” it later
- Aug 2024AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
- 110
The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
- Jan 2023On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)
- Jul 2025Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs
- Aug 2025Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes
- Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- 111
Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCode
Hacker News threads
- 112
Student of Games: A unified learning algorithm for both perfect and imperfect information games
Hacker News threads
- 113
Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- 114
Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2022(typo in URL, ignore)
- Jul 2022DeepMind: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent RL
- Dec 2022Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
- Oct 2025Poker Tournament for LLMs
- Oct 2026With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
- 115
GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020GShard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding
- Jul 2020600B Parameters Model – GShard: Scaling Giant Models
- Jul 2020GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding
- Jul 2020OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
- Dec 2021How to Go Beyond Data Parallelism and Model Parallelism: Starting from GShard
- Dec 2023Google's Gemini: MIT Technology Review
- 116
A Time Leap Challenge for SAT Solving
Hacker News threads
- 117
Hierarchical Transformers Are More Efficient Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 118
MLP-Mixer: An all-MLP Architecture for Vision
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2021MLP-Mixer: An All-MLP Architecture for Vision
- May 2021MLP-Mixer: An All-MLP Architecture for Vision
- May 2021X-Transformers: A fully-featured transformer with experimental features
- Nov 2023MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers
- Jun 2026Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants
- 119
Neural Networks are Decision Trees
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Feb 2023Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
- Jun 202420x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU
- Mar 2026Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
- 120
Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2022Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
- Aug 2022Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Mar 2023The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands
- 121
Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction
Hacker News threads
- 122
NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
Hacker News threads
- 123
The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
- Jun 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
- May 2022The Next Decade in AI (2020)
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Oct 2022What “game over” for the latest paradigm in AI might look like
- Aug 2025GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
- 124
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning is a Sequence Modeling Problem
Hacker News threads
- 125
Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020Towards a Human-Like Open-Domain Chatbot
- Jan 2020Towards a Human-Like Open-Domain Chatbot
- Oct 2020Towards a Human-Like Open-Domain Chatbot
- Apr 2020Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
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