Hacker Papers
- 01
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
- Jun 2025The Illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
- Jul 2025OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
- Dec 2025Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
- Feb 2026I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."
- Mar 2026Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
- Oct 2026An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
- 02
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Aug 2025Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
- Aug 2025About AI
- Sep 2025AI coding
- Oct 2025Our efforts, in part, define us
- Oct 2025Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?
- Dec 2025If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
- Jan 2026Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
- Oct 2026Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
- 03
Recursive Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Recursive Language Models
- Jan 2026General plug-and-play inference lib for RLMs
- Jan 2026Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
- Jan 2026MIT Researchers Destroy the Context Window Limit [video]
- Jan 2026Show HN: RLM-MCP Analyze Files in Claude Code Using MIT's recursive LM paper
- Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
- Apr 2026RLM: LLMs to process arbitrarily long prompts with inference-time scaling (2025)
- Jun 2026
- Oct 2026Context Language Models
- 04
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
- 05
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?
- 06
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
- 07
s1: Simple test-time scaling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Test-time scaling new approach: extra test-time compute improves LLM reasoning
- Feb 2025s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
- Feb 2025S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
- Feb 2025Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
- Feb 2025LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
- Mar 2025QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
- Apr 2026TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
- Jul 2026Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
- 08
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Impolite LLM prompts consistently outperform polite ones
- Oct 2025Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026The User Is Visibly Frustrated
- Jun 2026Claude Fable 5
- Jul 2026I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it
- Jul 2026Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
- Aug 2026Sol Loves to Cheat
- Aug 2026The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
- Oct 2026Anthropic bans users from abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
- 09
Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Hacker News threads
- May 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Apr 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Jun 2025Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
- Oct 2025A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jun 2026GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
- Aug 2026Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful
- Sep 2026OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
- Sep 2026How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Sep 2026Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Sep 2026Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
- 10
AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Go is the best language for agents
- Apr 2026Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- Jul 2026How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
- Jul 2026Elixir-lang.org has a new design
- Sep 2026Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
- 11
Why Language Models Hallucinate
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Mar 2026Why Language Models Hallucinate (2025)
- Sep 2025OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable
- Sep 2025What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
- Oct 2025GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
- Dec 2025Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
- Feb 2026Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
- May 2026OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable (Sept. 2025)
- 12
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Aug 2026Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Apr 2025Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
- Aug 2025Do we understand how neural networks work?
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 13
Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jun 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- Aug 2025My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Jul 2026Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos
- 14
Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Jan 2026Repeating your prompt twice before sending it to an LLM improves accuracy
- Mar 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Feb 2026"Car Wash" test with 53 models
- Mar 2026Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Mar 2026LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
- Mar 2026Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Sep 2026Lichen – A local, BOY model system1 (Jev) server with image support
- 15
Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?
- May 2025Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jul 2025Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)
- Jul 2025Ask HN: Why haven't we seen AI as opponents in video games?
- Oct 2025Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
- 16
How much do language models memorize?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025How much do language models memorize?
- Jun 2025Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten
- Jun 2025A practical guide to building agents [pdf]
- Jun 2025Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
- Jun 2025Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
- Jul 2025Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
- Sep 2025California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
- Sep 2026LLMs are real, AI is fake
- 17
SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025SynthID-Image: Invisibly Watermarking AI-Generated Imagery
- Apr 2026ChatGPT Images 2.0
- May 2026OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
- May 2026OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
- Jun 2026Appreciating Exif
- Oct 2026SynthID Detector
- 18
AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2025OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
- Apr 2026Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
- May 2026I’ve joined Anthropic
- May 2026Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup
- Jul 2026Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
- 19
Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Aug 2026Software engineering is about managing complexity
- Oct 2026I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
- 20
DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 21
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
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