Hacker Papers
- 151
SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
- Mar 2019In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Slide: In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Deep Learning Breakthrough Sees One Xeon Destroying 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
- Dec 2020Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Aug 2021pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
- Oct 2021New features coming in Julia 1.7
- Feb 2022Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
- Feb 2025(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
- 152
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
- Feb 2018The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Jan 2020The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Aug 2018Learning Math for Machine Learning
- Oct 2021Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN?
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- Jul 2023The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Jan 2024Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
- Mar 2025Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
- 153
Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023RLFH Alternative Direct Preference Optimization
- May 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jan 2024Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
- Aug 2025Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF
- Jun 2026I design with Claude more than Figma now
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
- 154
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2012Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors [pdf]
- Dec 2012Why use SVM
- Feb 2014Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
- May 2014What does a neural network actually do?
- Oct 2015Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Nov 2016Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- 155
Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
- 156
Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets [pdf]
- Feb 2018Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
- Jan 2019An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Feb 2024Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
- 157
Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- May 2023“Just a statistical text predictor”
- Dec 2024Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- Feb 2025Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Apr 2025Can reinforcement learning for LLMs scale beyond math and coding tasks? Probably
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Nov 2025Google Antigravity
- Oct 2026DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
- 158
Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Jun 2014Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
- Jul 2014Inside Google Brain
- Feb 2016Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud
- Jun 2016Intro to Hidden Markov Models (2010) [pdf]
- Mar 2017ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google
- 159
Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2014Building a deeper understanding of images
- Mar 2015Show HN: Anime character recognizer
- Apr 2015Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
- Jul 2015Deep learning
- Mar 2016Turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks
- Apr 2016Show HN: Open source colorizing grayscale images with NN
- Jun 2021Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
- 160
End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jul 2016Master Plan, Part Deux
- Feb 2017The most cited deep learning papers
- May 2017Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
- Jun 2017Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
- Sep 2017Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms
- May 2018A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning
- Jul 2018Ask HN: What makes a good autonomous vehicles engineer?
- Jul 2018Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here
- 161
Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
Hacker News threads
- May 2021Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- Sep 2025Geometric Deep Learning Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges [pdf]
- Apr 2021Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- May 2021An Erlangen Programme to Establish the Geometric Foundations of Deep Learning
- Jun 2021ICLR 2021 Keynote: “Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML”
- Apr 2022Why train when you can optimize?
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Just know stuff. (Or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)
- Feb 2023Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models
- Jun 2025Spherical CNNs (2018)
- Sep 2025The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
- 162
DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeekMath
- Feb 2024DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open LLMs
- Feb 2024Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Feb 2025GPT-4.5
- Mar 2025Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”
- May 2025DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
- Nov 2025DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
- 163
Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
- Feb 2020This person does not exist
- Nov 2020This X Does Not Exist (2019)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Feb 2021Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Jul 2022Show HN: This Food Does Not Exist
- Oct 2024Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
- 164
Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Pretraining on test set is all you need
- Feb 2025Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Claude 3 model family
- Apr 2024The "it" in AI models is the dataset
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Jul 2024Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- Feb 2025Grok3 Launch [video]
- 165
Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
- 166
Knowledge Representation in Bicategories of Relations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017A computational linguistic farce in three acts
- Nov 2017Modeling Science as a Directed Graph
- May 2018The Logical Disaster of Null
- Jul 2018Kialo – a platform for rational debate
- Dec 2018A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
- Aug 2019Software Architecture Guide
- Feb 2020Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
- 167
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
- Feb 2023A new way to build with Large Language Models
- Feb 2023Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide to How It Works
- Mar 2023ViperGPT: A Python Framework That Combines Vision and Language Models Using Code
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
- May 2023AI knows things no one told it
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- 168
Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Implicitly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Perform Gradient Descent
- Jan 2023The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- Feb 2023GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
- Feb 2023To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
- Mar 2023Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
- Mar 2023GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
- Mar 2023OK, it’s time to freak out about AI
- May 2023Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t
- Jul 2024Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
- 169
Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- Jun 2026Do Agents.md Files Help Coding Agents?
- Feb 2026Writing code is cheap now
- Feb 2026Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)
- Feb 2026Show HN: I got tired of syncing Claude/Gemini/AGENTS.md and .cursorrules
- Mar 2026New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding
- Mar 2026Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder
- Jun 2026Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
- Jun 2026Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
- Oct 2026I paid people to try and follow my README
- 170
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- Jan 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- Jan 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- Jan 2025Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents
- Jan 2025Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
- Feb 2025Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures
- Feb 2025Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures
- Dec 2025Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
- Dec 2025The dawn of a world simulator
- Mar 2026Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round
- Apr 2026Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)
- 171
Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with a Model-Agnostic Verification-and-Refinement Pipeline
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with Prompting
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
- Jul 2025Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
- Aug 2025GPT-5
- Aug 2025Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics
- Sep 2025DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- Nov 2025Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
- Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs
- 172
Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2024Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019)
- Oct 2019Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Feb 2020T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
- 173
LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
Hacker News threads
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- May 2023GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
- May 2023How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
- Jun 2023Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
- Jun 2023AI has poisoned its own well
- Sep 2023Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
- Sep 2023Outperforming LLMs with less training data and smaller model sizes
- Apr 2024Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?
- Oct 2024Zamba2-7B
- 174
Technical Report on the Pangram AI-Generated Text Classifier
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024Technical Report on the Checkfor.ai AI-Generated Text Classifier
- Jul 2026Technical Report on the Pangram AI-Generated Text Classifier (2024)
- Oct 2024AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
- Nov 2025Open-source Zig book
- Jan 2026Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency
- Jan 2026For most flagged articles, nearly every cited sentence failed verification
- Feb 2026Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
- Apr 2026Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
- Jul 2026The bottleneck might be the air in the room
- Jul 2026Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning
- 175
Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Meta Learning Backpropagation and Improving It (2020)
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Sep 2023HN thread 37367951
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Oct 2023Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Feb 2024Neural Network Diffusion
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
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