Hacker Papers
- 01
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Hacker News threads
- 02
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
- 03
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
- 04
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
- 05
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
- 06
ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
Hacker News threads
- 07
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
- 08
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
- 09
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (2025)
- Jul 2026Fields Medals 2026
- Sep 2026The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
- Oct 2026LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
- 10
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
- 11
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?
- 12
Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025CaMeL: Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers
- Jun 2025EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot
- Jul 2025Code execution through email: How I used Claude to hack itself
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Sep 2025Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
- Feb 2026Don't trust AI agents
- Jul 2026Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
- Oct 2026Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
- 13
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
- 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
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
- 16
Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll
- Mar 2026AI compromised sandbox to mine crypto without prompting on its own initiative
- Mar 2026Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
- Mar 2026Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
- 17
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
- 18
A Definition of AGI
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025A definition of AGI
- Oct 2025What is intelligence? (2024)
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025Scientists can't define consciousness, yet we think AI will have it
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Nov 2025Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?
- 19
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
- 20
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
- 21
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Jan 2025DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
- Jan 2025DeepSeek temporarily limits registration to Chinese mobile numbers
- Jan 2025The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
- Jan 2025Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?
- Apr 2025In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
- Sep 2025The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
- 22
A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: The Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
- 23
OLMoTrace: Tracing Language Model Outputs Back to Trillions of Training Tokens
Hacker News threads
- 24
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
- 25
Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
- Sep 2026Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
- May 2025Text Embeddings are All Alike
- Dec 2025The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- Jan 2026Moltbook
- Mar 2026
- Jul 2026Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
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