Hacker Papers

1. 326
   

   Attention is not not Explanation

   Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter · 2019

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   • Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
   • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
   • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

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2. 327
   

   Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu

   Sandra Eibenberger et al. · 2013

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   • Mar 2017A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists
   • Sep 2018Yale researchers 'teleport' a quantum gate
   • May 2021What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
   • Jan 2026We Recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It

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3. 328
   

   Optimality of Gerver's Sofa

   Jineon Baek · 2024

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   • Dec 2024Optimality of Gerver's Sofa
   • Dec 2024The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!
   • Nov 2025Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
   • Jan 2026Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician

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4. 329
   

   Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with a Model-Agnostic Verification-and-Refinement Pipeline

   Yichen Huang, Lin F. Yang · 2025

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   • Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
   • Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with Prompting
   • Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
   • Jul 2025Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
   • Aug 2025GPT-5
   • Aug 2025Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics
   • Sep 2025DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
   • Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
   • Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
   • Nov 2025Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
   • Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs

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5. 330
   

   The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot

   Sida Peng et al. · 2023

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   • Jul 2025The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (2023)
   • Mar 2023The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
   • Jun 2024The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
   • Jun 2023Measuring the productivity impact of generative AI
   • Aug 2025AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder
   • Aug 2025I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
   • Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs

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6. 331
   

   High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

   Robin Rombach et al. · 2021

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   • Aug 2022Build Your Own Imagen Text-to-Image Model
   • Sep 2022Stable Diffusion forming images from text: image snapshots at each step
   • Sep 2022A Web UI for Stable Diffusion
   • Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
   • Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
   • Feb 2024The VAE Used for Stable Diffusion Is Flawed
   • Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
   • Dec 2025Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun

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7. 332
   

   Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic

   Mihaly Barasz et al. · 2014

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   • Jul 2014Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma
   • Apr 2015Timeless Decision Theory [pdf]
   • Jan 2019Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
   • Apr 2022The singularity is close?
   • Jun 2022An introduction to logical decision theory for everyone else
   • Dec 2025Non-Zero-Sum Games

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8. 333
   

   Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

   Shafi Goldwasser et al. · 2022

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   • Apr 2022Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
   • Apr 2022Poll: What book should I write?
   • May 2022OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
   • Jun 2022Blogging with Org-mode for lazy people
   • Dec 2025Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB

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9. 334
   

   How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball

   Muru Zhang et al. · 2023

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   • May 2023How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
   • May 2023A Logic for Expressing Transformers
   • Sep 2025An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
   • Dec 2025Project Vend: Phase Two

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10. 335
    

    Universal Transformers

    Mostafa Dehghani et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
    • Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
    • Aug 2025The Drivers of HRM's Performance on Arc-AGI
    • Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
    • Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
    • Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)

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11. 336
    

    Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?

    Ailing Zeng et al. · 2022

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    • Jan 2024Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
    • Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
    • Feb 2024A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
    • Jul 2024XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
    • Jun 2025Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers
    • Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer

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12. 337
    

    ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale

    Samuel L. Smith et al. · 2023

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    • Oct 2023ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
    • Oct 2023ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
    • Oct 2023ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
    • Mar 2024The Google employees who created transformers
    • Apr 2024Vision Transformers Are Overrated
    • Apr 2024Vision Transformers Are Overrated
    • Sep 2025Automatic differentiation can be incorrect
    • Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer

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13. 338
    

    CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers

    Haiping Wu et al. · 2021

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    • Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
    • Jul 2022
    • Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer

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14. 339
    

    Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less

    Silei Xu et al. · 2025

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    • Mar 2025Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
    • Feb 2025Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
    • Mar 2025Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
    • Mar 2025Sketch-of-Thought: Efficient LLM Reasoning
    • May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
    • Dec 2025Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

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15. 340
    

    Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin

    Dario Amodei et al. · 2015

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    • Dec 2015Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
    • Jul 2016Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
    • Nov 2017Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
    • Dec 2019DeepSpeech 0.6
    • Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
    • May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
    • Aug 2023Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
    • Dec 2025Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

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16. 341
    

    In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors

    Roee Hendel et al. · 2023

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    • Oct 2023In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors
    • Oct 2023LLMs playing chess are sensitive to how the position came to be
    • Nov 2024Task Vectors [in Vision and Language Models (VLM's)] Are Cross-Modal
    • Dec 2025Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

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17. 342
    

    Introducing Physical Warp Drives

    Alexey Bobrick, Gianni Martire · 2021

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    • Oct 2025Physical Warp Drives (2021)
    • Dec 2025Introducing Physical Warp Drives (2021)
    • Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
    • Mar 2021Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
    • Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
    • May 2021Physical Warp Drives
    • Dec 2021Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
    • Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
    • Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
    • Jul 2024New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021)

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18. 343
    

    LLMs Can't Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks

    Subbarao Kambhampati et al. · 2024

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    • Oct 2024Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
    • Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
    • Dec 2025If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?

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19. 344
    

    GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark

    David Rein et al. · 2023

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    • Mar 2024Claude 3 model family
    • Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
    • Mar 2025I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
    • Dec 2025Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions

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20. 345
    

    LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

    Philippe Laban et al. · 2025

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    • May 2025LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
    • May 2025The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
    • Jul 2025The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
    • Dec 2025The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

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21. 346
    

    A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property

    Jakob Steininger, Sergey Yurkevich · 2025

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    • Aug 2025A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property
    • Aug 2025A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property
    • Oct 2025First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself
    • Nov 2025Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
    • Dec 2025Noperthedron is not Rupert (can't fit through itself) [video]

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22. 347
    

    Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

    Gemini Team et al. · 2023

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    • Dec 2023Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
    • Dec 2023Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
    • Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
    • Mar 2024Four new models that are benchmarking near or above GPT-4
    • Apr 2024Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
    • May 2024Gemini Nano coming built in to Chrome 126, powered by WebGPU
    • Dec 2025Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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23. 348
    

    Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from (Speakerless) Air-Gapped Computers

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

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    • Jun 2016Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers
    • Jul 2017The Adventures of AV and the Leaky Sandbox [pdf]
    • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work
    • Dec 2025How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

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24. 349
    

    A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

    Michael Betancourt · 2017

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    • Feb 2017A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
    • Nov 2024Overview of differential geometry for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
    • Sep 2025A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [pdf]
    • May 2017How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
    • Nov 2017Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles
    • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]
    • Dec 2018Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained
    • Apr 2019Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
    • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
    • Mar 2024Claude 3 Opus reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts
    • Dec 2025What I don’t like about chains of thoughts (2023)

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25. 350
    

    Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering

    Martin Farach-Colton et al. · 2025

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    • May 2025Optimal bounds for open addressed hash tables without reordering
    • Feb 2025Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
    • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
    • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
    • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
    • Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
    • Mar 2025Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
    • Dec 2025Speeding Up Hash Tables

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