Hacker Papers
- 01
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
- 02
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
- 03
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
- 04
A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
- Aug 2015
- Sep 2015Algorithm can create new Van Gogh or Picasso in an hour
- Feb 2016Visual Turing Test
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Sep 2016Implementation of Neural Style Transfer in Python and Keras
- Mar 2017Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
- Nov 2017Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice
- Apr 2023Study: ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patients
- 05
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)
- 06
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"
- 07
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)
- 08
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
- 09
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018When algorithms surprise us
- Mar 2018Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation
- Mar 2018The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: Artifical Life and EC Anecdotes
- Mar 2018Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
- Jun 2018Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?
- Nov 2018Evolved antenna
- Apr 2019Notes on AI Bias
- Mar 2021Lying to the Ghost in the Machine
- Jun 2021One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- Jun 2023Own-Goal Football (2022)
- 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
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
- 13
Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Aug 2016News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Oct 2019Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
- Mar 2025Optimizing ML training with metagradient descent
- 14
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]
- 15
In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
- May 2017Dave Patterson: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit
- Jun 2017The Age of Nvidia
- Aug 2017Google TPU Performance Analysis
- Feb 2018Cloud TPUs in Beta
- Apr 2019Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
- Feb 2023Introduction to FPGAs
- Oct 2024Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
- Apr 2025Google is winning on every AI front
- 16
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)
- 17
"Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016“Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier [pdf]
- Apr 2016[pdf] Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
- Oct 2020Explaining black box models with LIME
- Sep 2016Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding
- Mar 2017War by any means: The story of DARPA
- Jul 2017Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots
- Dec 2017DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes with Deep Neural Networks
- Dec 2017A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
- Jul 2019Interpretable Machine Learning
- Apr 2020Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning
- Jun 2024No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides
- 18
On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures
Hacker News threads
- May 2019On the Turing Completeness of Modern NN Architectures (Transformer, Neural GPU)
- Jul 2020Is This a Turing Machine?
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2022Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Sep 2024Tinygrad will be the next Linux and LLVM
- Feb 2025Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
- 19
Model Cards for Model Reporting
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Aug 2023AI Nutrition Facts
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Dec 2024OpenAI o1 system card
- Jul 2025ChatGPT agent System Card [pdf]
- May 2026Grok 4.3
- Jun 2026System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]
- 20
A Neural Conversational Model
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2015Getting closer to 'Ex Machina' – A Neural Conversational Model by Google[pdf]
- Jun 2015Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy with Its Programmer
- Aug 2015A Beginner’s Guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- Jan 2016BotLibre – Free Open Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
- Mar 2016Generating Factoid Questions with RNNs: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
- Jun 2016The truth about deep learning
- Nov 2016Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
- Jan 2020Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
- Jun 2026What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?
- 21
World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018World Models
- Mar 2018World Models
- Apr 2018A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper
- Jul 2018Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
- Nov 2019The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated
- Jun 2021DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI
- Jul 2021More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
- Feb 2026The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation
- 22
Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules by Sabour, Frosst, Geoffrey E Hinton (CapsNet))
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Hinton's 'Capsule Networks' Unveiled
- Nov 2017Google A.I. researchers develop alternative architecture for neural networks
- Nov 2017A Year in Computer Vision
- Dec 2017Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
- Feb 2018Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"
- Jun 2019Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- 23
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2016This AI Boom Will Also Bust
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Mar 2017Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Nov 2017Building A.I. That Can Build A.I
- Mar 2018Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- 24
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
- Mar 2017Baidu Deep Voice Explained: Part 1 – the Inference Pipeline
- Oct 2017Finding Waldo Using Semantic Segmentation and Tiramisu
- May 2018Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
- Oct 2018A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
- Apr 2019Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?
- Aug 2022Show HN: Nevermind XOR – Deep Learning Has an Issue with Sin
- Jan 2026Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
- 25
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2016Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2019Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
- Sep 2016Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
- Oct 2016[MIT Lecture] Connections between physics and deep learning
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- May 2017Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Oct 2018How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
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