Hacker Papers
- 151
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2016New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything
- Oct 2017The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Jun 2026Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
- 152
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- Jun 2026The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs
- May 2023What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups
- May 2023HN thread 36136318
- Jun 2023OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2026Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models
- 153
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?
- 154
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
- Jun 2025Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt
- Jun 2025Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- Jun 2025League of Professional System Administrators - Board to Dissolve Organization
- Jun 2025Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
- Jun 2025Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI?
- Jan 2026Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant
- Mar 2026747s and Coding Agents
- Apr 2026The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
- Apr 2026AI chatbots could be making you stupider
- Jun 2026Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
- 155
SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous Integration
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Mar 2026Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects
- May 2026Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
- Jun 2026GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
- 156
The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024OpenAI: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Apr 2024The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Apr 2024The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Aug 2024Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
- May 2025GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
- Jun 2026A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works
- 157
DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
- Jan 2025A path to O1 open source
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Confused about how DeepSeek hurts Nvidia
- Jan 2025Why DeepSeek had to be open source
- Feb 2025Step-Video-T2V: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model
- May 2025DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
- Feb 2026GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
- Mar 2026Mamba-3
- Jun 2026Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math
- 158
GLU Variants Improve Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Sep 2024SwiGLU activation function causes instability in FP8 LLM training
- Jun 2026Don't trust large context windows
- Jun 2026Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8
- 159
ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained byte-to-byte models
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- Dec 2022ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
- Mar 2023Cerebras-GPT vs. LLaMA AI Model Performance Comparison
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Jun 2023Understanding GPT Tokenizers
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Nov 2024Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
- Jun 2026Data Compression Explained
- 160
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development
- Jan 2026Way AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
- Feb 2026Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
- May 2026The AI Elephant in the Room
- Jun 2026Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
- 161
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
- 162
Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
- Mar 202270B language model outperforms Gopher and GPT-3
- Sep 2022Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
- Apr 2022Estimating PaLM's Training Cost
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Feb 2023Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Apr 2023OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jun 2026Cohere's First Model for Developers
- 163
Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
- Dec 2024Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
- Feb 2025RLHF Book
- Mar 2025Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
- Mar 2025A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
- Nov 2025CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
- Jun 2026The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis
- 164
Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs
Hacker News threads
- 165
Model soups: averaging weights of multiple fine-tuned models improves accuracy without increasing inference time
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization
- Mar 2026NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
- Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
- Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
- 166
Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
- Dec 2023Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)
- Feb 2022Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete (2019)
- Aug 2019Rediscovering rules for ancient board games
- Jun 2020How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity
- Jun 2022AI Is Ushering in a New Scientific Revolution
- Dec 2022“Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game
- Jul 2023Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
- Dec 2023I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Win Rate
- Sep 2024Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true
- Jun 2026MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play magic
- 167
Formal Algorithms for Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Formal Algorithms for Transformers
- Jan 2023The Transformer Family
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
- May 2023Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- Jan 2024Relearning math as an adult
- Jun 2026Can I Buy Your KV Cache?
- 168
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
- 169
What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025LLMs fail to demonstrate internal world model, according to Harvard/MIT study
- Jul 2025AGI Is Mathematically Impossible (3): Kolmogorov Complexity
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Jun 2026ΠFS
- 170
Model Cards for Model Reporting
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Aug 2023AI Nutrition Facts
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Dec 2024OpenAI o1 system card
- Jul 2025ChatGPT agent System Card [pdf]
- May 2026Grok 4.3
- Jun 2026System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]
- 171
A Neural Conversational Model
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2015Getting closer to 'Ex Machina' – A Neural Conversational Model by Google[pdf]
- Jun 2015Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy with Its Programmer
- Aug 2015A Beginner’s Guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- Jan 2016BotLibre – Free Open Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
- Mar 2016Generating Factoid Questions with RNNs: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
- Jun 2016The truth about deep learning
- Nov 2016Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
- Jan 2020Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
- Jun 2026What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?
- 172
The Hardware Lottery
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020The Hardware Lottery
- Sep 2020The Hardware Lottery
- Sep 2020The Hardware Lottery
- Nov 2020Ride the Hardware Lottery
- Apr 2022Large-Scale Matrix Factorization on TPUs
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- Oct 2023Nvidia and Foxconn to build 'AI factories'
- Dec 2023A new old kind of R&D lab
- Apr 2025Multi-Token Attention
- May 2026A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- 173
The SWE-Bench Illusion: When State-of-the-Art LLMs Remember Instead of Reason
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025The SWE-Bench Illusion: When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason
- Feb 2026The SWE-Bench Illusion: When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason
- Jul 2025Principles for production AI agents
- Aug 2025Open models by OpenAI
- Sep 2025Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
- Sep 2025Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
- Feb 2026Prediction: Claude 5 will be a major regression
- Mar 2026FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
- Jun 2026Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?
- 174
DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient MOE Language Model
- Jan 2025DeepSeek's multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks
- Apr 2025Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model
- May 2025Attention Wasn't All We Needed
- Dec 2025Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models
- Dec 2025Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- 175
DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
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