Hacker Papers
- 201
ATLAS: Learning to Optimally Memorize the Context at Test Time
Hacker News threads
- 202
KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- 203
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks
- Mar 2018The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Training Pruned Neural Networks
- Oct 2020The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2019)
- May 2019Smarter Training of Neural Networks
- Aug 2019Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
- Jun 2020Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Oct 2022Substitute certain overhyped programming terms with more accurate replacements
- May 2023AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Apr 2026Show HN: SparseLab–real sparse training(CSR+custom kernel) in PyTorch, CPU-first
- 204
Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Second-order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-training
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Sophia: Scalable Stochastic 2nd-Order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training
- May 2023Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Second-Order Optimizer
- Jul 2023Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training
- May 2023MITx Differential Equations starts May 31
- Jun 2023Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU
- Jun 2023Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU
- Aug 2023Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster
- 205
The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
- May 2021The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
- Jul 2023The Pile: a dataset for language modeling [pdf]
- Mar 2021The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3
- Apr 2022Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API
- Jan 2023The Limits of GPT-3 and Similar Large Language Models
- Apr 2023RedPajama: Reproduction of Llama with Friendly License (Stanford, MILA Quebec)
- Jul 2023Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
- Sep 2023What OpenAI Really Wants
- Mar 2024DBRX: A new open LLM
- Apr 2026Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
- 206
Infini-gram: Scaling Unbounded n-gram Language Models to a Trillion Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
- Feb 2024Infini-Gram: Scaling Unbounded N-Gram Language Models to a Trillion Tokens
- Feb 2024Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
- Feb 2024Markov Chains are the Original Language Models
- Jun 2024Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in Their Residual Stream
- Nov 2025A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Apr 2026Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
- 207
Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 208
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
- 209
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]
- 210
A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards (2023)
- Aug 2023A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards
- Aug 2023A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards
- Aug 2023Write your passwords down (2010)
- Oct 2023OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation
- Dec 2023Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
- Nov 2024Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
- Mar 2026Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
- 211
SOLAR 10.7B: Scaling Large Language Models with Simple yet Effective Depth Up-Scaling
Hacker News threads
- 212
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
- May 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
- May 2023Tree-of-Thought (ToT), complex and general problem solving with LLMs
- May 2023Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?
- May 2023Tree of Thoughts
- Jun 2023Tree of Thoughts: Official vs. Wrong Implementation
- Jun 2023Native JSON Output from GPT-4
- Jun 2023LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
- Jul 2023Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
- Sep 2024g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains
- Mar 2026Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO
- 213
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs
- Mar 2026An early look at the labor market impact potential of LLMs (2023)
- Mar 2023ChatGPT is down
- Mar 2023OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Impacted by GPT
- Apr 2023Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
- Nov 2023Google AI chief says there's a 50% chance we'll hit AGI in just 5 years
- Mar 2024AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft
- Oct 2024OpenAI not expecting to break into profitability until 2029
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Nov 2025MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
- 214
Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Gemini 1.5: Multimodal understanding across tokens of context
- Mar 2024Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro whitepaper
- Mar 2024Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across tokens of context
- Apr 2024Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
- Apr 2024Can Gemini 1.5 read all the Harry Potter books at once?
- May 2024Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Mar 2026Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round
- 215
Amortized Planning with Large-Scale Transformers: A Case Study on Chess
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- Feb 2024Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- Feb 2024Grand-Master Level Chess Without Search: Modeling Choices and Their Implications
- Apr 2024EURISKO Lives
- Sep 2024Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
- Oct 2024Grandmaster-level chess without search
- Nov 2024Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess
- Nov 2024Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- Mar 2026Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
- 216
Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
- Feb 2025Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
- Jan 2025Self-Replicating AI (lab experiments)
- Jan 2025Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning
- May 2025Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
- Mar 2026Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life
- 217
Alignment faking in large language models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
- Feb 2025Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
- Feb 2025Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Feb 2026An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
- Mar 2026Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
- 218
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Dec 202380% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning
- May 2024LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
- Oct 2024Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
- 219
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
- 220
Neural Networks are Decision Trees
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Feb 2023Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
- Jun 202420x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU
- Mar 2026Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
- 221
Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning
Hacker News threads
- 222
Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Feb 2015Ioffe and Szegedy get 4.8% top-5 test on ImageNet(beating recent MSR result)
- Feb 2026Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training (2015)
- May 2015The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (2012)
- Apr 2016Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Mar 2017Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks
- 223
Large Language Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Large Language Diffusion Models
- Feb 2025Large Language Diffusion Models
- Feb 2025Diffusion LLM Has Arrived
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Mar 2025Beyond Diffusion: Inductive Moment Matching
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- Apr 2025Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Feb 2026Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
- 224
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jun 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jul 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Apr 2022The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best
- Nov 2023Understanding Deep Learning
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Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
Hacker News threads
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