Hacker Papers
- 251
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
Hacker News threads
- May 2012Google research (with Jeff Dean): Face recognition with unsupervised learning
- Jun 2012In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
- Jun 2012Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face
- Aug 2013The Face Scan Arrives
- Sep 2013Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats
- Dec 2013Google is the new Bell Labs
- Aug 2015M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
- Mar 2023Ask HN: I'm feeling awe, unsettled and disoriented by GPT-4. How about you?
- 252
Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
- Jan 2019Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
- Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
- Dec 2018Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
- Jun 2020Do We Train on Test Data? Purging Cifar of Near-Duplicates
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- Jan 2023A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
- 253
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Dec 202380% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning
- May 2024LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
- Oct 2024Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
- 254
Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Silent data corruptions at scale (2021)
- Jun 2021Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
- Jul 2021Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
- Jun 2021Cores that don’t count [pdf]
- Jul 2021Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
- Jul 2021Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
- May 2022Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512
- Jan 2023ECC RAM should be a human right
- Feb 2024Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
- Aug 2024Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
- 255
Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Dec 2017Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality
- Feb 2019Syntax-Guided Synthesis
- Jan 2021Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Jan 2025Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
- Jul 2025FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
- 256
Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
- Dec 2016Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
- Dec 2016Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Oct 2017A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Dec 2018Why Robot Brains Need Symbols
- Jul 2019Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- 257
What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Apr 2020What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Jul 2022I should have loved biology
- Apr 2023Gradients Are Not All You Need
- 258
Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability: Extended Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Engineering Record and Replay(rr) for Deployability Extended Technical Report
- May 2017Engineering Record and Replay for Deployability: Extended Technical Report
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2019Debuggers Suck
- Jun 2022What rr does
- Jul 2024rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- Jul 2024rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- Mar 2025Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
- 259
UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
- Aug 2018A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
- Aug 2018A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
- Dec 2018Let’s Try t-SNE
- Jan 2019Structure of recent philosophy (2017)
- Feb 2019Topological methods for unsupervised learning problems [video]
- Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
- Oct 2024Category Theory Illustrated: Logic (2021)
- 260
Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Oct 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Sep 2019The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so
- Oct 2019Green AI
- Sep 2021Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns
- Oct 2021Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- Feb 2024I don't want anything your AI generates
- 261
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
- 262
Reasoning or Reciting? Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of Language Models Through Counterfactual Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Exploring Capabilities, Limitations of Language Models by Counterfactual Tasks
- Jul 2023AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Jun 2024The illusion of state in state-space models
- Jul 2024Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Nov 2024DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model
- 263
Decoding billions of integers per second through vectorization
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2012Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
- Sep 2012Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
- Jul 2013Fast integer compression in Java
- Feb 2017Multihash – self-describing hashes
- Sep 2017Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression
- Jun 2021Sorted Integer Compression
- Oct 202586 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)
- 264
Deep Neural Networks as Gaussian Processes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Using Self-Organizing Maps to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
- Jul 2018Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010)
- Jan 2020U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Jun 2023Any Deep ReLU Network Is Shallow
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- 265
The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in How LLMs Represent Truth
- Oct 2023"Hallucinating" AIs Sound Creative, but Let's Not Celebrate Being Wrong
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What is your standard for judging when AGI exists?
- Nov 2023Rats have an imagination, new research suggests
- Nov 2023HN thread 38355930
- May 2024Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Sep 2024AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
- Sep 2024GPTs and Hallucination
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- 266
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
- Jan 2019Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- May 2014Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- Dec 2014Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
- Nov 2015Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Dec 2023Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013
- Aug 2026Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
- 267
On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2022On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data
- Jun 2024The Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data (2022)
- Jul 2023On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data
- Dec 2022Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It
- Feb 2023Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
- Mar 2023Understanding ChatGPT
- Mar 2023HN thread 35320870
- Jul 2023PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
- Sep 2023Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
- Oct 2024DeepSeek: Advancing theorem proving in LLMs through large-scale synthetic data
- 268
Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond by John Preskill
- Jul 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
- Aug 2018Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond – John Preskill
- Jan 2018The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
- Jul 2018Getting Started with Quantum Computing in Python
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2018US takes first step toward a quantum computing workforce
- May 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- Dec 2020First release of quantum operating system, Deltaflow
- 269
Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025The algo that advanced natural language processing and influenced OpenAI's LLMs
- Jan 2018Language Models for Classification (state of art on everything)
- Jan 2018Fine-Tuned Language Models for Text Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2018Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages
- May 2018State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models
- May 2018Our machine learning and NLP journey
- Jun 2018Improving Language Understanding with Unsupervised Learning
- Jul 2018NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training
- Jul 2020Classifying 200k articles in 7 hours using NLP
- Nov 2023OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition
- 270
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Con
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
- Nov 2023Cats That Fetch Are an Evolutionary Mystery
- Dec 2023The Singularity Is Nigh!
- Mar 2024Claude 3 claims it's conscious
- Dec 2025Do We Need Human-Like AI?
- Oct 2026Are stochastic parrots alive?
- 271
What is Applied Category Theory?
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)
- May 2019What Is Applied Category Theory?
- May 2019What Is Applied Category Theory? [pdf]
- Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
- Sep 2019A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages
- Dec 2019Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
- Apr 2020Ask HN: What are you learning?
- May 2020Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”
- May 2021An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
- 272
Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
- Feb 2025Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
- Mar 2026Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
- Apr 2026System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Aug 2026AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
- 273
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'
- 274
Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples
- Jun 2020Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Aug 2017Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Apr 2016I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf]
- Aug 2017Why Deep Learning surprises me
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Jan 2018Audio Adversarial Examples
- Mar 2018AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
- Oct 2019Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
- 275
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Jan 2018Proposal for Proquints
- Jul 2020Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Dec 2014Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku
- May 2015Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines
- Sep 2018How to Name a Baby (2013)
- Nov 2019Bitspeak converts hex strings to pronounceable words
- Feb 2020Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
- Sep 2020Readable Pointers
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