Hacker Papers
- 126
Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Reflexion: An autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection
- Mar 2023Reflexion: An autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection
- Mar 2023Reflexion: An autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection
- Mar 2023GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data
- Mar 2023ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic
- Apr 2023HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and Its Friends in HuggingFace
- Apr 2023Defamed by ChatGPT: Law professor libeled from whole cloth
- Apr 2023Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties
- Jul 2023Langchain Is Pointless
- Aug 2023Maccarone: AI-managed code blocks in Python
- Oct 2024Update on Reflection-70B
- 127
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
- May 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
- May 2023Tree-of-Thought (ToT), complex and general problem solving with LLMs
- May 2023Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?
- May 2023Tree of Thoughts
- Jun 2023Tree of Thoughts: Official vs. Wrong Implementation
- Jun 2023Native JSON Output from GPT-4
- Jun 2023LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
- Jul 2023Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
- Sep 2024g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains
- Mar 2026Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO
- 128
LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023Apple Announces LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
- Dec 2023Show HN: Emu2 – A Gemini-like open-source 37B Multimodal Model
- Dec 2023Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
- Mar 2026Qwen3.5-397B at 4.74 tok/s using 5.9GB RAM
- Mar 2026iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
- Aug 2026New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
- 129
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
- Apr 2023TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with industry-leading efficiency
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator
- May 2023Nvidia DGX GH200: The First 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
- May 2025OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
- Jun 2025Basic Facts about GPUs
- Oct 2026Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
- 130
Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
- Nov 2023Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
- Nov 2023DeepMind on the Definitions and Levels of AGI
- Nov 2023Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
- Nov 2023The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart
- Dec 2023Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
- Mar 2024Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
- May 2024Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
- May 2025Evolving OpenAI's Structure
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- 131
People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can detect AI-generated text
- Jan 2025People who use ChatGPT for writing are robust detectors of AI-generated text
- May 2026People who use ChatGPT for writing are accurate detectors of AI text (2025)
- Nov 2025When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug
- Apr 2026Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- May 2026Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
- Jun 2026"No, I swear I wrote this."
- Jul 2026Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
- Aug 2026Where .env Went Wrong
- Aug 2026I'm Becoming AI-Blind
- 132
Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Dec 2018Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
- Jan 2019Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2
- Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
- Mar 2019‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
- Sep 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2024Where is Noether's principle in machine learning?
- Mar 2024On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
- 133
Recursive Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Recursive Language Models
- Jan 2026General plug-and-play inference lib for RLMs
- Jan 2026Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
- Jan 2026MIT Researchers Destroy the Context Window Limit [video]
- Jan 2026Show HN: RLM-MCP Analyze Files in Claude Code Using MIT's recursive LM paper
- Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
- Apr 2026RLM: LLMs to process arbitrarily long prompts with inference-time scaling (2025)
- Jun 2026
- Oct 2026Context Language Models
- 134
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs
- Mar 2026An early look at the labor market impact potential of LLMs (2023)
- Mar 2023ChatGPT is down
- Mar 2023OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Impacted by GPT
- Apr 2023Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
- Nov 2023Google AI chief says there's a 50% chance we'll hit AGI in just 5 years
- Mar 2024AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft
- Oct 2024OpenAI not expecting to break into profitability until 2029
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Nov 2025MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
- 135
The Llama 3 Herd of Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024The Llama 3 Herd of Models
- Dec 2024The Llama 3 Herd of Models
- Aug 2024Meta's Joe Spisak on Llama 3.1 405B [video]
- Aug 2024Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
- Oct 2024Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
- Dec 2024Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
- Feb 2025Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson
- Mar 2025AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
- May 2025Type-constrained code generation with language models
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
- 136
SequenceMatch: Imitation Learning for Autoregressive Sequence Modelling with Backtracking
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token
- Jun 2023LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
- Jun 2024AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Aug 2025Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
- Sep 2025The wall confronting large language models
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- 137
Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
- Jul 2024The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
- Jul 2024Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'
- Aug 2024Self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction (in JavaScript)
- Sep 2024Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
- Nov 2024OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
- Nov 2025Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
- Aug 2026The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
- Aug 2026Computational Life Reactor (Based on Brainfuck)
- 138
RL$^2$: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2017Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- Feb 2023What were the 40 research papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
- 139
LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Aug 2022LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Sep 2022Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
- Feb 2023How to Train Large Models on Many GPUs?
- Mar 2023Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
- Apr 2023Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
- May 2023Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- Jul 2023Transformer Attention is off by one
- Jun 2024Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
- 140
Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Deepmind Navigates 3D Maze WithAsynchronous Methods 4 Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Feb 2016Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2016Google DeepMind: Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2016How Far to AI Utopia?
- Apr 2016Visual Doom AI Competition
- Jun 2016Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Keras and OpenAI Gym
- Aug 2016Reinforcement Learning and DQN – learning to play from pixels
- Sep 2016BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Mar 2017Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
- 141
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
- Jul 2021DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields
- Jan 2022Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding
- Sep 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
- Oct 2022Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
- Apr 2023HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields
- Oct 2025Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
- May 2026Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
- 142
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
- Jun 2025LLM's Illusion of Alignment
- Jun 2025LLM's Illusion of Alignment
- Aug 2025Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
- Oct 2025It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
- Nov 2025DeepSeek writes insecure code if prompt mentions topics restricted in China
- May 2026Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas"
- Jun 2026Where every major LLM stands politically
- Jul 2026Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
- 143
Hopfield Networks is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020)
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2021Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Is GitHub Copilot / IntelliCode Legal?
- Sep 2022Transformers seem to mimic parts of the brain
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Short-term Hebbian learning can implement transformer-like attention
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 144
Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025"GPT training in U.S. data centers can evaporate 700k L of freshwater"
- Mar 2025Making AI Less Thirsty: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret AI Water Footprint
- Mar 2024Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
- Jun 2023ChatGPT requires half a liter of water to have a conversation
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Apr 2025Bored of It
- Nov 2025AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
- May 2026AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks
- Jun 2026Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
- 145
Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Apr 2023We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI
- Apr 2023Grokking in Julia
- May 2023Tiny Transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm
- Aug 2023The Myth of AI Omniscience
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Oct 2024OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition
- Jan 2026Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)
- 146
Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Sep 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Mar 2023Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Nov 2023Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API
- May 2024Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
- Sep 2024AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- 147
Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
- Nov 2016Facebook is harming our democracy
- Nov 2016A machine learning approach to identifying thought markers of suicidal subjects
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Apr 2017Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence criminals
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Jun 2018AI at Google: our principles
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Jun 2024Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
- 148
Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Deep Unsupervised Learning Using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [pdf]
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
- Feb 2024Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
- May 2024Diffusion Models
- Sep 2024Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
- Sep 2024Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
- 149
Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- May 2023How does data removal from GPT *work
- Aug 2023PMET: Precise Model Editing in a Transformer
- Oct 2023MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
- Nov 2023Is the reversal curse in LLMs real?
- Dec 2023What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation a.k.a. RAG?
- May 2024Llama3 implemented from scratch
- 150
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Mar 2022Deep learning is hitting a wall?
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Sep 2022Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
- Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
- Oct 2023When Gradient Descent Is a Kernel Method
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