Hacker Papers
- 226
Ologs: a categorical framework for knowledge representation
Hacker News threads
- 227
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2011Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
- Nov 2011Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol
- Nov 2012Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]
- Feb 2013Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins
- Apr 2013Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State
- Jan 2014Bitcoin 2.0 explained
- 228
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 229
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
- Nov 2023The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Jan 2026The Code-Only Agent
- 230
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
- 231
Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs
- Jun 2020An In-Depth Experience Report with All Rust CVEs
- Jun 2020Memory-safety challenge considered solved? An empirical study of Rust CVEs
- Jun 2020Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
- Jul 2020Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
- Aug 2020Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
- Feb 2021Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
- Jan 2023Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
- Jul 2024Tell HN: When Firefox jumps the shark, the call to action is Ladybird
- 232
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
- Dec 2016Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Nov 2017Closing the Simulation-to-Reality Gap for Deep Robotic Learning
- May 2020Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
- Jan 2024Barcoding Bees (2020)
- 233
Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jan 2023ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model
- Feb 2023Microsoft Adds ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing Search Engine
- Feb 2023ArxivGPT: Chrome extension that summarizes arxived research papers using ChatGPT
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Feb 2023ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Apr 2025GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions
- 234
DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands
- Sep 2017DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands
- Sep 2017South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
- Sep 2017South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
- May 2018Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
- Jan 2019Designing an audio adblocker
- Mar 2019Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
- Feb 2020SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
- Feb 2020Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop
- 235
Learning to reinforcement learn
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- 236
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- May 2019Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- Nov 2024Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials (2018) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
- Jul 2019Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
- May 2022Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
- Jul 2022Notation for Differentiation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2025Multiplicative Infinitesimals
- 237
The Argument against Quantum Computers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]
- Oct 2019Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
- Dec 2019Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
- Oct 2021Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
- Feb 2023Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
- Dec 2024The Google Willow Thing
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
- 238
Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
- Mar 2019Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
- Sep 2019Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
- Aug 2020Julia 1.5 Highlights
- Oct 2020Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
- Oct 2020Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
- Aug 2021A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)
- Mar 2022It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)
- 239
Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
- Dec 2019Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
- Jul 2020Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
- Aug 2021Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jul 2025Efficient set-membership filters and dictionaries based on SAT
- 240
Are Transformers universal approximators of sequence-to-sequence functions?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
- Mar 2024OpenAI – transformer debugger release
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- 241
Cool horizons for entangled black holes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Cool horizons for entangled black holes (2013)
- Jul 2013Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
- Dec 2013You can’t get entangled without a wormhole
- Jul 2015Ask HN: Is physics moving forward?
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Nov 2018Black Holes, Quantum Systems, Superconductors and Planck’s Constant Are Related
- Nov 2022What is spacetime made of?
- 242
Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
- Jun 2021Decision Transformer: ReinforcementLearning via Sequence Modeling
- Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
- Jul 2021The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative Multi-Agent Games
- Oct 2023MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
- Aug 2024RLHF is just barely RL
- Jun 2025Q-learning is not yet scalable
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- 243
Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023LLMs cannot self-correct reasoning yet
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Oct 2023GPT-4 Understands
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Aug 2024OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- Mar 2025Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
- Aug 2026Dutch lawyer fined €2,300 for using AI-hallucinated citation
- 244
Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
- 245
A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
- Aug 2016A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
- Feb 2018Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
- May 2018Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
- May 2019Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
- Dec 2020Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- 246
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Hacker News threads
- 247
Why AI is Harder Than We Think
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021Why AI is harder than we think
- Aug 2023Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021) [pdf]
- Jan 2023Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021)
- Apr 2021Superintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion
- May 2021Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
- Jan 2023The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- Jun 2024Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
- Sep 2025Four Fallacies of Modern AI
- 248
Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Oct 2016All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- Dec 2023Direct initialization of transformers using larger pretrained ones
- 249
Learning to Execute
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Learning to Execute
- Nov 2014Learning to Execute [pdf]
- Nov 2014Jeff Hawkins on the Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks
- May 2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2016The future is fewer people writing code?
- Jun 2017DeepFix: Fixing Common C Language Errors by Deep Learning
- 250
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf]
- Oct 2015Neural Artistic Captions
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
- Oct 2016Deepgram – Find Damning Soundbites
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018Asking the Right Questions About AI
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