Hacker Papers
- 01
Neural Turing Machines
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Neural Turing Machines [pdf]
- Oct 2014Neural Turing Machines
- May 2016Neural Turing Machines (2014)
- Feb 2015A Brief Overview of Deep Learning
- Jul 2015The Cyborg Compulsion
- Jan 2016Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (1996)
- Jul 2016How AI based programming could work
- Jul 2017The Limitations of Deep Learning
- Jun 2020GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
- Jan 2023GPT-3: Techniques to improve reliability
- Oct 2026Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
- 02
Attention Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Deep Neural Networks – Attention is all you need (No recurrence or convolutions)
- Jun 2017Attention Is All You Need (Neural Networks)
- Jun 2025Attention Is All You Need
- Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
- Apr 2020Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- May 2023Why the Original Transformer LLM Figure Is Wrong, and Other Interesting Tidbits
- Dec 2023Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
- Jan 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- Mar 2026Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
- Sep 2026The AI Race Just Got Awkward
- 03
Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Generative Adversarial Networks
- Nov 2016Generative Adversarial Nets [pdf]
- Jun 2014Does Deep Learning Have Deep Flaws?
- Jan 2017Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Jan 2018AI System Sorts News Articles by Whether or Not They Contain Actual Information
- Jun 2020AI vs. AI
- May 2022Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
- Nov 2023SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model
- Sep 2024Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
- 04
Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
- Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Dec 2017Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js
- Apr 2022Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories
- Mar 2023Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?
- Mar 2026NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
- Aug 2026OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
- 05
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
- 06
On the Measure of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
- Jun 2024The Measure of Intelligence
- Nov 2019François Chollet: The Measure of Intelligence
- Nov 2019What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?
- Jul 2020OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jan 2023What Is AGI-Hard
- Mar 2024AIs ranked by IQ; AI passes 100 IQ for first time, with release of Claude-3
- Oct 2024Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
- Jul 2025François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
- Sep 2026Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
- 07
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
- Apr 2023Bert: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
- Nov 2018TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks
- Feb 2019Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT
- Mar 2019Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
- Sep 2019At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- Jul 2023Ask HN: How to Break into AI Engineering
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Jun 2026Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
- 08
The Case for Learned Index Structures
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2017My Favorite Papers of 2017
- Feb 2018Chip advances require fresh ideas, speakers say
- May 2018An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sorting
- Nov 2018Optimal Shard Placement in a Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Cluster
- Oct 2020Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
- 09
Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Dec 2018Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2020Understanding Deep Learning Requires Re-Thinking Generalization (2017)
- Dec 2016LSTM Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction
- May 2017Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, and Humanity
- Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
- Oct 2018The Mixed Track Record of Machine Learning Algorithms
- Feb 2020A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- 10
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
- 11
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
- Dec 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Mar 2016Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust
- Jun 2016What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?
- Jun 2018Ask HN: Can you recommend any ML papers or blogs for visual art detection?
- Aug 2020China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Oct 2026We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
- 12
Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jun 2019Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017)
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jul 2017Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning
- Apr 2018Skynet Today – accessible and informed coverage of AI hype and panic
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Jul 2023FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm
- Dec 2023Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
- Dec 2023Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE
- Jun 2024AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
- 13
Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Deep learning in neural networks: An overview
- Dec 2023Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
- Dec 2014Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Recommended Readings
- Dec 2014Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)
- Sep 2016Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
- Jan 2017AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future
- Jul 2018Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s
- Jun 2019Ask HN: Please suggest review papers in CS topics
- Nov 2023Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
- Sep 2024OpenAI to become for-profit company
- 14
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
Hacker News threads
- May 2020GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Jun 2024Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Nov 2024Language models are few-shot learners (2020)
- Jun 2020GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
- Jul 2020Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3
- Oct 2020AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
- Oct 2022Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
- Feb 2023Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
- May 2023Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Parkinson's Biomarker
- Nov 2023Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- 15
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2020Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
- Jun 2022Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
- Sep 2026Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (first "scaling laws" paper from 2020)
- Jan 2020Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data
- Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
- Feb 2023Ask HN: How “real” are AI scaling laws?
- Apr 2023OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
- Dec 2023Do large language models need all those layers?
- Oct 2024Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Oct 2026Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
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Intriguing properties of neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks [pdf]
- Jan 2019Intriguing properties of neural networks (2014)
- Jan 2015Intriguing properties of neural networks
- Apr 2014Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology
- Dec 2014Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled
- Mar 2015Life Lessons from Machine Learning
- May 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Apr 2017Optical illusions that flummox computers
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Dec 2017Interview with Xavier Leroy
- Jan 2022Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says
- 17
Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space (2013)
- Aug 2013Learning the Meaning of Words
- Sep 2013word2vec in yhat: Word vector similarity
- Jun 2015Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
- Dec 2015John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video]
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Sep 2017What every software engineer should know about search
- Oct 2023Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
- May 2025A visual exploration of vector embeddings
- 18
Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Nov 2017AI Safety: problem of accidents in machine learning systems
- Jun 2016Concrete AI Safety Problems
- May 2017The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
- Oct 2017OpenAI's Researchers: Protecting Against AI’s Existential Threat
- Oct 2018Ask HN: Examples of AI ethical principles?
- Nov 2019Safety Gym
- May 2021Anthropic AI
- Apr 2023Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
- Jul 2026Our position on open-weights models
- 19
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
- Oct 2017Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- Aug 2016Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Aug 2018Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
- Dec 2018Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
- Jan 2022Intuition is a “superpower”
- Apr 2022The singularity is close?
- Mar 2023And yet It Understands
- 20
Responses to Critiques on Machine Learning of Criminality Perceptions (Addendum of arXiv:1611.04135)
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images
- Nov 2016Automatic Racial Discrimination via Artificial Intelligence
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Aug 2017China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy
- Sep 2017Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation
- Feb 2018Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
- Jun 2019BIY: Believe It Yourself
- Dec 2019The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture
- May 2020HU facial recognition software predicts criminality
- Aug 2022America’s First Black Physician (2021)
- 21
Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015Extending “Let It Go” with recurrent neural network
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Apr 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- May 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- Apr 2017Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
- Aug 2020An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
- Jan 2023Realistic Computer-Generated Handwriting
- Feb 2025Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs
- 22
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
- Apr 2023Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2015)
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Nov 2020A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
- Nov 2023Google is not a tech company
- Dec 2023LLM Visualization
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- May 2025When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 23
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Jan 2015A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
- Jan 2015Image Kernels Explained Visually
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018For AI to thrive, it must explain itself
- Sep 2023Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool
- Mar 2024How do neural networks learn?
- Oct 2026Feature Visualization – How neural networks build understanding of images (2017)
- 24
An exact mapping between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
- Jul 2015An Exact Mapping Between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
- Dec 2014Deep Learning and Renormalization Group Thery
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Sep 2016Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
- Nov 2016Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Jun 2024How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
- May 2025Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
- 25
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015New, more powerful Google Translate app
- Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Dec 2020AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
- Jun 2023What Are Embeddings?
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Apr 2025The Leaderboard Illusion
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