Hacker Papers
- 126
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Oct 2023RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jun 2024How Meta trains large language models at scale
- Jun 2024Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking
- Mar 2025AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
- Apr 2025Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study
- Jun 2026Are AI chatbots politically biased?
- 127
XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
- Apr 2016Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2016Notes from the fourth RISC-V workshop
- Jan 2017TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
- Jan 2017XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Aug 2018Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- 128
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
Hacker News threads
- May 2012Google research (with Jeff Dean): Face recognition with unsupervised learning
- Jun 2012In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
- Jun 2012Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face
- Aug 2013The Face Scan Arrives
- Sep 2013Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats
- Dec 2013Google is the new Bell Labs
- Aug 2015M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
- Mar 2023Ask HN: I'm feeling awe, unsettled and disoriented by GPT-4. How about you?
- 129
Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
- Jan 2019Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
- Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
- Dec 2018Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
- Jun 2020Do We Train on Test Data? Purging Cifar of Near-Duplicates
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- Jan 2023A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
- 130
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
- 131
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
- 132
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Con
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
- Nov 2023Cats That Fetch Are an Evolutionary Mystery
- Dec 2023The Singularity Is Nigh!
- Mar 2024Claude 3 claims it's conscious
- Dec 2025Do We Need Human-Like AI?
- Oct 2026Are stochastic parrots alive?
- 133
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
- 134
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
- 135
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
- 136
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
- 137
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)
- 138
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?
- 139
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
- 140
Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
- Mar 2023Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time
- Apr 2023Show HN: Pledge Your Human-Made Content
- Jul 2023OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
- Apr 2024OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights
- Sep 2025Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- 141
Ologs: a categorical framework for knowledge representation
Hacker News threads
- 142
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
- 143
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
- Nov 2023The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Jan 2026The Code-Only Agent
- 144
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
- 145
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)
- 146
Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jan 2023ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model
- Feb 2023Microsoft Adds ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing Search Engine
- Feb 2023ArxivGPT: Chrome extension that summarizes arxived research papers using ChatGPT
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Feb 2023ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Apr 2025GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions
- 147
Learning to reinforcement learn
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- 148
Are Transformers universal approximators of sequence-to-sequence functions?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
- Mar 2024OpenAI – transformer debugger release
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- 149
Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
- Jun 2021Decision Transformer: ReinforcementLearning via Sequence Modeling
- Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
- Jul 2021The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative Multi-Agent Games
- Oct 2023MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
- Aug 2024RLHF is just barely RL
- Jun 2025Q-learning is not yet scalable
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- 150
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
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