Hacker Papers
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Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2017Densely Connected Convolutional Networks: CVPR 2017 Best Paper Award Winner
- Feb 2017Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
- Jul 2017Best paper award CVPR 2017 DenseNets
- Nov 2016MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Jun 2021Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
- Dec 2021DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
- Mar 2024DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers
- Sep 2025Automatic differentiation can be incorrect
- 202
End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2015End-To-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
- May 2015End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies [pdf]
- May 2015‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- May 2015‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
- Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
- Dec 2015The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
- Apr 2016An AI First World
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- May 2017AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match
- 203
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2018Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
- Jul 2018Evolving Floorplans
- Mar 2019Ask HN: Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?
- Oct 2019The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- Sep 2026We must pace the frontier
- 204
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
- 205
A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016[Legg, Hutter] a Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (2007)
- Nov 2022A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Dec 2021Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- May 2023Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil
- Oct 2023"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- 206
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
- 207
Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Jun 2021Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 know your phone number?
- Feb 2021Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
- Jul 2021All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
- Jun 2022Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
- Apr 2023Record Labels Panic as A.I. Generated Song Becomes Hit Single
- Sep 2026“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
- 208
Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024A Study on the Impact of Structured Output on Performance of LLMs
- Aug 2024A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of LLM
- Aug 2024A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of LLMs
- Aug 2024Structured Outputs in the API
- Sep 2024Show HN: Best Practices for Using Structured Output from LLMs
- Sep 2025Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs
- Jul 2026How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
- Aug 2026Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
- Oct 2026Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
- 209
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)
- 210
Quantifying Memorization Across Neural Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Quantifying memorization across language models
- Aug 2022Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
- Nov 2022Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Copilot class action?
- Mar 2023PG: We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
- Aug 2024Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
- Apr 2025Migrating away from Rust
- Jul 2026The Kimi K3 Moment
- 211
Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
- Feb 2025Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)
- Apr 2025AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
- Oct 2025Reasoning is not model improvement
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Oct 2026How accurately calibrated is Jev?
- 212
Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Jun 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Nov 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- May 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Jun 2025Vision Language Models Are Biased
- Nov 2025The space of minds
- Feb 2026An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
- Aug 2026Small Models Have Arrived
- Sep 2026A beginning for mathematics
- 213
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?
- 214
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
- 215
Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2022Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text
- Feb 2023Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic
- Mar 2023Visual ChatGPT
- Apr 2023Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
- May 2023Governance of Superintelligence
- Jul 2023Stability AI releases its latest image-generating model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
- 216
Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering, Using Deep Learning
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks [pdf]
- Mar 2015Facebook's Memory Networks Demo
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Jun 2015Hound voice search NLP demo [video]
- Aug 2015Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
- Sep 2015Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
- Jun 2016DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
- Oct 2025A History of Large Language Models
- 217
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?
- 218
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
- 219
STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning
Hacker News threads
- 220
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Oct 2021An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2026An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (2018)
- Oct 2018Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
- Nov 2018Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
- Jun 2019A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
- Dec 2020Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2022Probabilistic Models of Cognition
- Aug 2023A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
- 221
Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Modes and Neural Representations of the Hippocampal
- May 2022Relating transformers to neural representations of hippocampal formation
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Neural Representations of the Hippocampal Formation
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How to get back into AI?
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- Sep 2024Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- 222
InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016InfoGAN: Representation Learning by Generative Adversarial Nets
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Aug 2016OpenAI Team Update
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
- Apr 2017Unsupervised sentiment neuron
- Sep 2017PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
- 223
Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) as Much as Text
- Nov 2023Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
- Dec 2023Embeddings, Vectors, and Arithmetic
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
- Jun 2024CryptGPT: A Simple Approach to Privacy-Preserving LLMs Using Vigenere Cipher
- Jul 2024Vision language models are blind
- Jan 2025Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
- 224
Ologs: a categorical framework for knowledge representation
Hacker News threads
- 225
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
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