Hacker Papers
- 226
Rethinking set theory
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019Rethinking Set Theory (2012)
- Jun 2019Foundations of Mathematics (2015) [pdf]
- Dec 2019List of Statements Independent of ZFC
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Sep 2020Programming with Categories
- Nov 2022Topology, a Categorical Approach (2020)
- Sep 2025How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
- Oct 2025Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
- 227
Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Pretraining on test set is all you need
- Feb 2025Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Claude 3 model family
- Apr 2024The "it" in AI models is the dataset
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Jul 2024Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- Feb 2025Grok3 Launch [video]
- 228
Mission to the Gravitational Focus of the Sun: A Critical Analysis
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Interstellar Communication via Gravitational Lens
- Aug 2017Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
- Feb 2018Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens
- Jul 2019Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA
- Apr 2023Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
- Aug 2024The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
- Oct 2024First images from Euclid are in
- 229
Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
- 230
Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2013Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer
- Dec 2017Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
- Sep 2019IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
- May 2021Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf]
- Jan 2024Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
- May 2024What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
- Jan 20262026 Predictions Scorecard
- 231
Knowledge Representation in Bicategories of Relations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017A computational linguistic farce in three acts
- Nov 2017Modeling Science as a Directed Graph
- May 2018The Logical Disaster of Null
- Jul 2018Kialo – a platform for rational debate
- Dec 2018A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
- Aug 2019Software Architecture Guide
- Feb 2020Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
- 232
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Feb 2023Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
- Feb 2023A new way to build with Large Language Models
- Feb 2023Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide to How It Works
- Mar 2023ViperGPT: A Python Framework That Combines Vision and Language Models Using Code
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
- May 2023AI knows things no one told it
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- 233
Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Implicitly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Perform Gradient Descent
- Jan 2023The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- Feb 2023GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
- Feb 2023To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
- Mar 2023Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
- Mar 2023GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
- Mar 2023OK, it’s time to freak out about AI
- May 2023Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t
- Jul 2024Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
- 234
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
- 235
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- Jan 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- Jan 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- Jan 2025Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents
- Jan 2025Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
- Feb 2025Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures
- Feb 2025Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures
- Dec 2025Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
- Dec 2025The dawn of a world simulator
- Mar 2026Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round
- Apr 2026Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)
- 236
Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with a Model-Agnostic Verification-and-Refinement Pipeline
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with Prompting
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
- Jul 2025Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
- Aug 2025GPT-5
- Aug 2025Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics
- Sep 2025DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- Nov 2025Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
- Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs
- 237
Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2024Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019)
- Oct 2019Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Feb 2020T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
- 238
LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
Hacker News threads
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- May 2023GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
- May 2023How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
- Jun 2023Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
- Jun 2023AI has poisoned its own well
- Sep 2023Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
- Sep 2023Outperforming LLMs with less training data and smaller model sizes
- Apr 2024Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?
- Oct 2024Zamba2-7B
- 239
Technical Report on the Pangram AI-Generated Text Classifier
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024Technical Report on the Checkfor.ai AI-Generated Text Classifier
- Jul 2026Technical Report on the Pangram AI-Generated Text Classifier (2024)
- Oct 2024AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
- Nov 2025Open-source Zig book
- Jan 2026Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency
- Jan 2026For most flagged articles, nearly every cited sentence failed verification
- Feb 2026Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
- Apr 2026Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
- Jul 2026The bottleneck might be the air in the room
- Jul 2026Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning
- 240
Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Meta Learning Backpropagation and Improving It (2020)
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Sep 2023HN thread 37367951
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Oct 2023Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Feb 2024Neural Network Diffusion
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 241
Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks Showing Complete Reasoning Breakdown in State-Of-the-Art Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs
- Jun 2024AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter
- Jun 2024Novel prompting approach for Alice in Wonderland problem
- Jul 2024Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
- Sep 2024Reflection 70B, the top open-source model
- Oct 2024Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
- Dec 2024Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
- Dec 2024Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
- Apr 2025Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
- 242
Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2020Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
- May 2024Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? (2020)
- May 2020In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
- May 2020In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
- Oct 2020A Review of Consensus Protocols
- May 2021Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
- Jan 2022Paxos
- Aug 2022Why use Paxos instead of Raft?
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- 243
European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jun 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash with Europe
- Jul 2016Training Computers to Find Future Criminals
- Aug 2016Make Algorithms Accountable
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Jun 2017You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Oct 2018How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)
- 244
On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024The Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton (2010)
- Feb 2010The entropy force: a new direction for gravity
- Jul 2010Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton
- Jul 2010Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton
- Jul 2011Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?
- Apr 2013Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
- Apr 2013Physicist proposes new theory of gravity, arguig that gravity doesn't exist
- Dec 2016First test of new theory of gravity
- Feb 2019What every physicist should know about string theory
- 245
How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
Hacker News threads
- May 2025How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
- May 2025Google Researcher Lowers Quantum Bar to Crack RSA Encryption
- May 2025It Might Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break Bitcoin, Google Says
- Aug 2025Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- Aug 2025Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- Oct 2025Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
- Oct 2025Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
- Nov 2025Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow
- Jul 2026France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
- 246
Universal adversarial perturbations
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Universal adversarial perturbations
- Nov 2016How close are we to solving vision?
- Nov 2016Show HN: Interactive deep convnet visualization for Keras and Tensorflow
- Jan 2017OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation
- Jun 2017Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
- Jul 2017Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Nov 2018Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans
- 247
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?
- 248
Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
- Jul 2016Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
- Nov 2017Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
- Dec 2019DeepSpeech 0.6
- Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Aug 2023Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
- Dec 2025Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
- 249
XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
- Apr 2016Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2016Notes from the fourth RISC-V workshop
- Jan 2017TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
- Jan 2017XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Aug 2018Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- 250
Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016Building machines that learn and think like people
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Causality in machine learning
- Apr 2017Ask HN: AI winter coming in next few years for AGI research?
- Apr 2017How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience
- Jul 2017The future of deep learning
- May 2019Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars
- Jun 2019An Explicitly Relational Neural Network Architecture
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