Hacker Papers
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Why Language Models Hallucinate
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Mar 2026Why Language Models Hallucinate (2025)
- Sep 2025OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable
- Sep 2025What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
- Oct 2025GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
- Dec 2025Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
- Feb 2026Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
- May 2026OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable (Sept. 2025)
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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
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Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- May 2025Will supercapacitors come to AI's rescue?
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Jul 2025MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System
- May 2026Language Models Need Sleep
- 229
Grothendieck's use of equality
Hacker News threads
- 230
Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
- 231
Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Leveraging Psychology for Large Language Models Enhancement via Emotional Prompt
- Sep 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Nov 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Sep 2023Redditor uses ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS
- Oct 2023Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into solving CAPTCHA
- Nov 2023HN thread 38357413
- Jan 2024Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
- Jan 2024Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots
- Jan 2025Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
- Feb 2026How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
- May 2026If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog
- 232
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2020A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
- Jul 2024A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (2021)
- Jan 2023A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
- Dec 2020To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
- Mar 2021Templating for Lawyers
- May 2021Legalese – Computational Law
- Oct 2021Open Source Tax Software
- Oct 2021Open Source Tax Software
- Jun 2022Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
- Feb 2023Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
- May 2026Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
- 233
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar (2015)
- Jun 2021Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar
- Feb 2015Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar [pdf]
- Sep 2018Raytracing a Black Hole
- Mar 2019Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
- Apr 2019Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
- Aug 2024Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- Nov 2024Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
- May 2026Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
- 234
OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Extended Version)
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
- Apr 2020OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jun 2021Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking
- May 2026Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
- 235
faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets
Hacker News threads
- May 2023AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defeating Disk Encryption
- May 2023FaulTPM: Exposing AMD FTPMs' Deepest Secrets
- Jul 2023Web Environment Integrity Explainer
- Jul 2023Web Environment Integrity API
- Aug 2023Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
- Nov 2023Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video]
- Jan 2026Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
- Jan 2026TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats to Watch Out For
- May 2026Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit
- May 2026Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
- 236
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Jun 2024The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Apr 2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Nov 2018Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
- Aug 2021The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2021An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
- Nov 2022Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
- Jan 2023How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
- Jul 2025A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
- 237
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
- Jul 2021DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields
- Jan 2022Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding
- Sep 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
- Oct 2022Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
- Apr 2023HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields
- Oct 2025Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
- May 2026Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
- 238
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Mar 2025Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Jul 2025Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Apr 2025Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration
- May 2025A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet
- Oct 2025Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- Apr 2026Introducing GPT-5.5
- May 2026Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
- May 2026The Sigmoids Won't Save You
- 239
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
- 240
A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes, Incompleteness and Fixed Points
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes - Noson S. Yanofsky [2003]
- May 2026Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes (2003)
- Nov 2015The Hardest Logic Puzzle: A step-by-step guide to true, false, and random
- Apr 2020John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
- May 2020Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt
- Jul 2021How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
- Jun 2023Basics of Proofs [pdf]
- Sep 2023Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
- 241
A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
- Dec 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
- Dec 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula [pdf]
- Dec 2019A new way to make quadratic equations easy
- Nov 2021A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
- Nov 2021A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
- Mar 2022Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages
- Oct 2022Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes
- Apr 2024The Stacks Project: A Wikipedia of algebraic geometry (2022)
- May 2026The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
- 242
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
- 243
Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Sep 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Aug 2025LLMs' "simulated reasoning" abilities are a "brittle mirage," researchers find
- Aug 2025From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- May 2026Three Inverse Laws of AI
- 244
Reformer: The Efficient Transformer
Hacker News threads
- 245
Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Sep 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Mar 2023Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Nov 2023Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API
- May 2024Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
- Sep 2024AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- 246
People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
Hacker News threads
- May 2024People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
- Jun 2024People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test
- Aug 2024Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
- Dec 2024GPT-5 is behind schedule
- Jan 2025Show HN: Killed by LLM – I catalogued AI benchmarks we thought would last years
- Feb 2025Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Apr 2025UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
- Oct 2025A definition of AGI
- Feb 2026Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
- May 2026Dear Richard Dawkins
- 247
Superhuman performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Dec 2024Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Jan 2025Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Jan 2025Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
- Jan 2025Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
- May 2025The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
- May 2026OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
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Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Google breaks the trillion-parameter ceiling with the Switch Transformer
- Jan 2021Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Sparsity
- Jan 2021Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple Sparsity
- Aug 2021Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
- Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
- Jan 2022The Illustrated Retrieval Transformer
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Jun 2023GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params
- Jul 2023GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better
- Oct 2023Decomposing Language Models into Understandable Components
- May 2026Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
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Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Emergent World Representations in Neural Networks
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Mar 2023HN thread 35348353
- Apr 2023HN thread 35356648
- May 2023Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
- Jun 2024Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
- Apr 2026Where the Goblins Came From
- 250
Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- Jun 2025A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
- Jun 2025AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Apr 2026
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