Hacker Papers
- 01
Persistent Pre-Training Poisoning of LLMs
Hacker News threads
- 02
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
- 03
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
- 04
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?
- 05
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Hacker News threads
- 06
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)
- 07
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?
- 08
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
- 09
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction
- May 2026Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
- Jul 2024Explainability is not a game
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Oct 2026IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
- 10
AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Apr 2026AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Oct 2026AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Apr 2026There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
- Apr 2026Codex for Almost Everything
- Jul 2026The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
- Oct 2026Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
- 11
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
- Jan 2024AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents"
- Jan 2024Two-Faced AI Language Models Learn to Hide Deception
- Jun 2024Anthropic: Expanding Access to Claude for Government
- Sep 2025Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
- Oct 2025NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
- Jun 2026The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
- Aug 2026Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor
- Oct 2026DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
- 12
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1
- Oct 2025Less is More: An LLM that outscores Claude Sonnet 4 while being 50.000x smaller
- Oct 2025Less Is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
- Nov 2025Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]
- Jun 2026Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
- Jul 2026How does Q-head work in batch training in Tiny Recursive Networks?
- Oct 2026Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
- 13
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Jan 2026Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models
- Apr 2026System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7
- Oct 2026Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
- 14
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
- 15
Large Language Models as Optimizers
Hacker News threads
- 16
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?
- 17
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023LORA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- Oct 2026LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (2021)
- Mar 2023Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
- Mar 2023How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT
- Mar 2023LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- Sep 2023Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2024DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G
- Nov 2024LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence
- Aug 2026Claude: System Prompts
- 18
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
- 19
AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2026AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
- Jun 2026AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
- Aug 2026AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
- Jun 2026U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
- Sep 2026Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
- Sep 2026The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
- Sep 2026Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- Oct 2026Botnets Prove Rogue AI Is Closer Than We Think
- 20
The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers
- Aug 2024The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers
- Apr 2025The Llama 4 herd
- Apr 2025Llama 4 Now Live on Groq
- Jul 2025LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
- Oct 2026Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?
- 21
Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- Jun 2026Do Agents.md Files Help Coding Agents?
- Feb 2026Writing code is cheap now
- Feb 2026Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)
- Feb 2026Show HN: I got tired of syncing Claude/Gemini/AGENTS.md and .cursorrules
- Mar 2026New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding
- Mar 2026Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder
- Jun 2026Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
- Jun 2026Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
- Oct 2026I paid people to try and follow my README
- 22
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
- 23
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Byte latent transformer: Patches scale better than tokens (2024)
- Dec 2024Tokenisation Is NP-Complete
- Dec 2024Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- May 2025Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020)
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
- Jun 2026Data Compression Explained
- Sep 2026When did Google get so weird?
- Oct 2026Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes
- 24
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
- 25
Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance
- Feb 2025The Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
- Feb 2024Should We Respect LLMs? Studying the Influence of Politeness on LLM Performance
- Sep 2025A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
- Sep 2025Qwen3-VL
- Feb 2026Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
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