Hacker Papers
- 301
No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance
Hacker News threads
- May 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- Apr 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- Apr 2024No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- May 2024Geoffrey Hinton "godfather of AI" says that AI will surpass human intelligence
- Jun 2024Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships
- Jun 2024OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
- Jun 2024Ask HN: When will we hit a limit on LLM performance?
- Jul 2024Vision language models are blind
- Jul 2024Ask HN: Are there videos of people using AI for non-trivial coding?
- Nov 2024OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
- Feb 2026(AI) Slop Terrifies Me
- 302
Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero [pdf]
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Dec 2021Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Feb 2026Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
- 303
World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018World Models
- Mar 2018World Models
- Apr 2018A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper
- Jul 2018Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
- Nov 2019The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated
- Jun 2021DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI
- Jul 2021More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
- Feb 2026The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation
- 304
The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying
- Sep 2023The Internal State of a Large Language Model Knows When Its Lying
- May 2023The internal state of an LLM knows when it is lying
- Jun 2023Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data
- Aug 2023How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
- May 2024Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
- Aug 2024LLMs know more than what they say
- Sep 2024AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
- Sep 2024Is telling a model to "not hallucinate" absurd?
- Oct 2024LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
- Feb 2026Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
- 305
Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Faster Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Jan 2023What a transformer can NOT do
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Jun 2024Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
- Jul 2024My Python code is a neural network
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Feb 2026Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
- 306
Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention
- Apr 2025Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention
- Mar 2024LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
- May 2024Gemini Flash
- Jan 2025Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
- Feb 2026Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
- 307
Scalable Chrysopoeia via $(n, 2n)$ Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Neutrons
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Scalable Chrysopoeia via (N,2n) Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion
- Aug 2025An Unusual Way to End Up with a Whole Lot of Gold
- Sep 2025Marathon Fusion claims it can turn mercury into gold while creating clean energy
- Feb 2026Cells Use 'Bioelectricity' to Coordinate and Make Group Decisions
- 308
The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]
- May 2008The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
- May 2024The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)
- Oct 2009Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments?
- Nov 2019Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
- Apr 2022Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
- Oct 2023The Wait Equation and AI Investment
- Jan 20254.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Jan 2026Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
- 309
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
- Feb 2024Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
- Feb 2024Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
- Feb 2024Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (DeepMind)
- Dec 2024Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
- Jan 2026Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
- 310
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media
- Feb 2024Bluesky signups are now open to the public
- Feb 2024Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
- Feb 2024Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
- Sep 2024ATProto for distributed system engineers
- Apr 2025Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay"
- Jan 2026Publishing on the ATmosphere
- 311
Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Sep 2022A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
- 312
Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners: Let's think step by step
- May 2022Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Reasoners
- Jun 2022LaMDA is not sentient
- Feb 2023Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Jul 2023What we learned from using GPT for 500k+ classifications
- Oct 2023Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens
- Jul 2024Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency
- Mar 2025ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving
- Jan 2026LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
- 313
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
- 314
Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
- Jun 2024Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than XOR filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- Sep 2024When Bloom filters don't bloom (2020)
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- 315
Efficient Guided Generation for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 316
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
- Mar 2017Baidu Deep Voice Explained: Part 1 – the Inference Pipeline
- Oct 2017Finding Waldo Using Semantic Segmentation and Tiramisu
- May 2018Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
- Oct 2018A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
- Apr 2019Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?
- Aug 2022Show HN: Nevermind XOR – Deep Learning Has an Issue with Sin
- Jan 2026Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
- 317
Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
- Jun 2024Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
- Jul 2024Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf]
- Aug 2024Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT love the word "eager" so much?
- Jan 2026Ask HN: How can you instantly tell something was written by AI?
- 318
Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Apr 2023We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI
- Apr 2023Grokking in Julia
- May 2023Tiny Transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm
- Aug 2023The Myth of AI Omniscience
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Oct 2024OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition
- Jan 2026Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)
- 319
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-Constant Number of Poison Samples
- Oct 2025Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- Nov 2025PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
- Jan 2026LeCun calls Alex Wang inexperienced, predicts more Meta AI employee departure
- Jan 2026AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
- 320
One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Nov 2017New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Oct 2018What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- May 2023Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
- 321
Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
Hacker News threads
- 322
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
- Apr 2023Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2015)
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Nov 2020A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
- Nov 2023Google is not a tech company
- Dec 2023LLM Visualization
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- May 2025When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 323
Hopfield Networks is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020)
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2021Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Is GitHub Copilot / IntelliCode Legal?
- Sep 2022Transformers seem to mimic parts of the brain
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Short-term Hebbian learning can implement transformer-like attention
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 324
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
- 325
Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
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