Hacker Papers
- 01
Language Modeling Is Compression
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Language Modeling Is Compression
- Sep 2023Language Modeling Is Compression
- Sep 2023Language Modeling Is Compression
- Sep 2023Show HN: 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code
- Jan 2024Getting Lossless Compression Adopted for Rigorous LLM Benchmarking
- Apr 2024EURISKO Lives
- May 2025The copilot delusion
- Jun 2025Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time
- Jan 2026Show HN: AI in SolidWorks
- Jun 2026Dune's Butlerian Jihad and the Future of AI
- Oct 2026OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
- 02
GPT-4 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023GPT-4 Technical Report
- Mar 2023OpenAI: GPT-4 Technical Report
- Mar 2023GPT-4 is Computer Vision on Steroids
- Mar 2023The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane
- Apr 2023We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
- May 2023ChatGPT-Authored Legal Filing “Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases"
- Jul 2023Claude 2
- Jan 2024Using GPT-4 as a probabilistic classifier
- Apr 2024Meta Llama 3
- Oct 2026Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
- 03
Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
- Feb 2026Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? (2023)
- May 2023Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage', Stanford Study Says
- Jun 2023OpenLLaMA 13B Released
- Dec 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
- Apr 2024Choose your weapon: Survival strategies for depressed AI academics
- May 2025Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
- Mar 2026Are LLMs not getting better?
- Sep 2026AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
- 04
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
- Apr 2025Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4 (2023)
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Plugins
- Mar 2023Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
- Mar 2023HN thread 35350030
- Apr 2023The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
- Apr 2023AGI Is Not Chess Bots – They Will Replace Your Jobs
- Jul 2023GPT-4 API General Availability
- Jul 2024ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021
- Aug 2026Karpathy's Pelican
- 05
TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)
- May 2023TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
- May 2023How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
- May 2023Apple bans ChatGPT use by employees, report says
- Jun 2023Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Oct 2023Disney Packed Big Emotion into a Little Robot
- Jan 2024Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
- May 2024“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Sep 2026MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
- 06
Textbooks Are All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2023Textbooks is all you need: new LLM 51% HumanEval. Better one >10x more params
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Jul 2023Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
- Sep 2023Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective
- Oct 2023Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
- Nov 2023OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition
- Jul 2024Apple says it uses no Nvidia GPUs to train its AI models
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet
- 07
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Apr 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Apr 2023Stanford's Groundbreaking AI Study Simulates Authentic Human Behavior
- Apr 2023We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI
- Jul 2023Roleplaying with LLMs
- Sep 2023Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations
- Oct 2023Lamini LLM Finetuning on AMD ROCm: A Technical Recipe
- Nov 2024Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
- Jan 2026
- Aug 2026Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
- 08
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (2023)
- Jul 2023Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
- Aug 2023Language models use long contexts
- Jul 2023Llama 32K Context Released by Together AI
- Aug 2023What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Oct 2023Microsoft says GPT 3.5 has 20B parameters?
- Nov 2023Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale
- Apr 2024LLMs and the Harry Potter problem
- Jul 2026OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
- Aug 2026Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
- 09
Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Leveraging Psychology for Large Language Models Enhancement via Emotional Prompt
- Sep 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Nov 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Sep 2023Redditor uses ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS
- Oct 2023Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into solving CAPTCHA
- Nov 2023HN thread 38357413
- Jan 2024Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
- Jan 2024Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots
- Jan 2025Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
- Feb 2026How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
- May 2026If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog
- 10
The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2026The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Nov 2023Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
- Jan 2024New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
- Jul 2024Mistral NeMo
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Aug 2026Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
- 11
Memory Augmented Large Language Models are Computationally Universal
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Memory Augmented Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
- Feb 2023Memory Augmented Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
- Mar 2023Memory Augmented Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
- Feb 2023Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome
- Mar 2023Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for other people’s code
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Apr 2023Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties
- May 2023Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Around 75,000 Words
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- Sep 2025Markov chains are the original language models
- May 2026Claude Opus 4.8
- 12
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
- Apr 2023TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with industry-leading efficiency
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator
- May 2023Nvidia DGX GH200: The First 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
- May 2025OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
- Jun 2025Basic Facts about GPUs
- Oct 2026Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
- 13
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
- 14
Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023RLFH Alternative Direct Preference Optimization
- May 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jan 2024Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
- Aug 2025Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF
- Jun 2026I design with Claude more than Figma now
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
- 15
Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- May 2023“Just a statistical text predictor”
- Dec 2024Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- Feb 2025Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Apr 2025Can reinforcement learning for LLMs scale beyond math and coding tasks? Probably
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Nov 2025Google Antigravity
- Oct 2026DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
- 16
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?
- 17
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Con
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
- Nov 2023Cats That Fetch Are an Evolutionary Mystery
- Dec 2023The Singularity Is Nigh!
- Mar 2024Claude 3 claims it's conscious
- Dec 2025Do We Need Human-Like AI?
- Oct 2026Are stochastic parrots alive?
- 18
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
- 19
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
- Nov 2023The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Jan 2026The Code-Only Agent
- 20
Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023LLMs cannot self-correct reasoning yet
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Oct 2023GPT-4 Understands
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Aug 2024OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- Mar 2025Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
- Aug 2026Dutch lawyer fined €2,300 for using AI-hallucinated citation
- 21
LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Jul 2023LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Mar 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Can tokenizers go from fixed length tokens to varying length?
- Jul 2025Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- 22
Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
- Sep 2023Chinchilla’s Death
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Aug 2024IsoFLOP curves of large language models are flat
- Jan 2025FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 23
Let's Verify Step by Step
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Jun 2023OpenAI: How to Train Reasoning in LLMs
- Aug 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Nov 2023Yann LeCun: Ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
- Nov 2023$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
- Aug 2024The Threat to OpenAI
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Sep 2026Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
- 24
Think before you speak: Training Language Models With Pause Tokens
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens
- Oct 2023Want to get started with LLMs? Here's what you need to know
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- Mar 2024Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI
- Apr 2024Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead
- Jul 2024The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Claude 4
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- 25
LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models (2023)
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
- Mar 2023Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11
- Mar 2023The RWKV language model: An RNN with the advantages of a transformer
- Apr 2023The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
- May 2023OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
- Jun 2023OpenLLaMA 13B Released
- Sep 2023Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date, Apache 2.0
- Feb 2025Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
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