Hacker Papers

1. 226
   

   Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle

   Mohammad Bavarian et al. · 2022

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2022Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle
   • Aug 2022FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
   • Dec 2022SantaCoder: A new 1.1B code model for generation and infilling
   • Mar 2023GPT-4 System Card [pdf]
   • Jan 2025How I program with LLMs

   arXiv ↗
2. 227
   

   Sloane's Gap. Mathematical and Social Factors Explain the Distribution of Numbers in the OEIS

   Nicolas Gauvrit et al. · 2011

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2013Sloane's Gap.
   • Oct 2013 The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
   • May 2016Pictures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
   • Sep 2018The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [pdf]
   • Oct 2019The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

   arXiv ↗
3. 228
   

   Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs

   Hector Sanjuan et al. · 2020

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2023Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-Dags Meet CRDTs
   • Apr 2020OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
   • Oct 2021CRDT resources
   • Mar 2022Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant [pdf]
   • Mar 2024Prolly Trees

   arXiv ↗
4. 229
   

   Emergent Representations of Program Semantics in Language Models Trained on Programs

   Charles Jin, Martin Rinard · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2023Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs
   • May 2023Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs
   • Jun 2023Evidence of Meaning in Large Language Models Trained on Programs
   • May 2023Governance of Superintelligence
   • Jun 2023The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
   • Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
   • Aug 2026If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?

   arXiv ↗
5. 230
   

   Stable image reconstruction using total variation minimization

   Deanna Needell, Rachel Ward · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2013The Rest of the Lenna Story
   • Apr 2016What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity
   • Feb 2019Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
   • Mar 2024Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

   arXiv ↗
6. 231
   

   Deep Fried Convnets

   Zichao Yang et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2015What's Wrong with Deep Learning?
   • Oct 2016Deep-Fried Data
   • Oct 2017The often-overlooked random forest kernel
   • Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

   arXiv ↗
7. 232
   

   New cardinality estimation algorithms for HyperLogLog sketches

   Otmar Ertl · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2017Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog
   • Jan 2018Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections
   • Nov 2018HyperMinHash: Bringing intersections to HyperLogLog
   • Mar 2021WyHLL: The most accurate 3-bits HyperLogLog

   arXiv ↗

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