Hacker Papers
- 01
Extracting books from production language models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models (2026)
- Jan 2026Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive to Access Books
- Feb 2026We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
- Feb 2026Microsoft offers guide to pirating Harry Potter series for LLM training
- Mar 2026Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
- Mar 2026FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
- Jun 2026Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?
- Jul 2026Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
- Sep 2026When did Google get so weird?
- 02
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
- 03
Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026DeepSeek: Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup
- Jan 2026Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup
- Jan 2026RAM Coffers– I built conditional memory for LLMs 27 days before DeepSeek'sEngram
- Jan 2026Subject-based weight routing for LLMs (27 days before DeepSeek Engram)
- Mar 2026Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs
- Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
- Sep 2026Show HN: Engram – Shared procedural runbook memory for AI coding agents via MCP
- 04
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development
- Jan 2026Way AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
- Feb 2026Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
- May 2026The AI Elephant in the Room
- Jun 2026Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
- 05
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
- Apr 2026Alignment Whack-a-Mole
- Apr 2026Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
- Mar 2026The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
- Apr 2026AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way
- Jun 2026US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms deemed security risks
- Jul 2026Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
- 06
SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long-Horizon Tasks
- Apr 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long-Horizon Task
- Jul 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long, Iterative Tasks
- Mar 2026Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
- Mar 2026AI Can Write Code, but Can It Build Software?
- May 2026I'm going back to writing code by hand
- May 2026Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook
- Jul 2026Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?
- Jul 2026Control the Ideas, Not the Code
- Jul 2026Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
- Jul 2026Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
- 07
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (including HN users)
- Feb 2026Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (using HN posts)
- Feb 2026Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
- Feb 2026OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
- Feb 2026The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
- Apr 2026Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis
- May 2026Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
- May 2026AI scans 400k Reddit posts and finds hidden Ozempic side effects
- 08
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
- 09
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
- 10
DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- 11
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
Hacker News threads
- 12
SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous Integration
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Mar 2026Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects
- May 2026Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
- Jun 2026GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
- 13
First Proof
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026First Proof
- Feb 2026First Proof
- Feb 2026Gemini 3 Deep Think
- Mar 2026A Methodological Critique of "First Proof" (Abouzaid et al., 2026)
- May 2026A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
- 14
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- Sep 2026The Millennium Problems for Biology
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