Hacker Papers
- 151
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
- 152
Why AI is Harder Than We Think
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021Why AI is harder than we think
- Aug 2023Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021) [pdf]
- Jan 2023Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021)
- Apr 2021Superintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion
- May 2021Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
- Jan 2023The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- Jun 2024Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
- Sep 2025Four Fallacies of Modern AI
- 153
Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Oct 2016All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- Dec 2023Direct initialization of transformers using larger pretrained ones
- 154
Learning to Execute
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Learning to Execute
- Nov 2014Learning to Execute [pdf]
- Nov 2014Jeff Hawkins on the Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks
- May 2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2016The future is fewer people writing code?
- Jun 2017DeepFix: Fixing Common C Language Errors by Deep Learning
- 155
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf]
- Oct 2015Neural Artistic Captions
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
- Oct 2016Deepgram – Find Damning Soundbites
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018Asking the Right Questions About AI
- 156
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
- 157
Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 158
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
- Jun 2018Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Aug 2021Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
- 159
Clustering by compression
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2018Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]
- Dec 2018The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)
- May 2021Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications
- Jul 2023Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification
- Jul 2024Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
- 160
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Jul 2020You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Mar 2016Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
- Apr 2019YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Oct 2025Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
- 161
One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Nov 2017New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Oct 2018What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- May 2023Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
- 162
Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs
- Sep 2020Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2024A new type of neural network is more interpretable
- Aug 2024Fun times with energy-based models
- Feb 2025Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
- 163
Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
- Sep 2023Chinchilla’s Death
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Aug 2024IsoFLOP curves of large language models are flat
- Jan 2025FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 164
Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
- Feb 2020Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models, Use Interpretable Models [pdf]
- Apr 2020Ode to J
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Oct 2021Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
- Jun 2022Shapash – Python library to make machine learning interpretable
- Apr 2024'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
- 165
Let's Verify Step by Step
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Jun 2023OpenAI: How to Train Reasoning in LLMs
- Aug 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Nov 2023Yann LeCun: Ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
- Nov 2023$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
- Aug 2024The Threat to OpenAI
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Sep 2026Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
- 166
FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
Hacker News threads
- May 2024FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms (2021)
- May 2021FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
- May 2021FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing
- May 2021An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
- 167
Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
- Oct 2017Show HN: Implementation of Poincaré Embeddings(Facebook Research) in Numpy
- Aug 2019Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space
- Aug 2019Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
- Feb 2021Illuminating hyperbolic geometry (2015) [video]
- Apr 2024Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)
- 168
Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Show Your Work: Scratchpads For Intermediate Computation With Language Models
- Feb 2022AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Mar 2023ChatGPT has trouble giving an answer before explaining its reasoning
- Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- 169
Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
- May 2018Grid-Cell Like Deep Layers in Navigation AI
- Feb 2019The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
- Apr 2022Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- 170
Real numbers, data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019Data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- May 2019Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
- Oct 2021At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies, Secret Payment
- Jan 2022How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Apr 2023Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
- 171
Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)
- Jul 2018Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
- Sep 2019A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
- Oct 2020AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
- Sep 2024Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
- Mar 2025The cultural divide between mathematics and AI
- 172
Mixed Precision Training
Hacker News threads
- 173
Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Sep 2020Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess with AlphaZero
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Dec 2020Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
- Aug 2021Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Jan 2024I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
- 174
Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Jun 2021DeDLOC – Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Dec 2023Is there a SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?
- Jan 2024Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Crowdsourced AI Training?
- 175
Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2016Visualizing and understanding recurrent networks
- Jun 2015Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
- Jul 2017Interpreting neurons in an LSTM network
- Jul 2019Show HN: Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning
- Jan 2021Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”
- Feb 2024Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
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