Hacker Papers
- 351
Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
- Jul 2024The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
- Jul 2024Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'
- Aug 2024Self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction (in JavaScript)
- Sep 2024Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
- Nov 2024OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
- Nov 2025Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
- Aug 2026The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
- Aug 2026Computational Life Reactor (Based on Brainfuck)
- 352
LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Aug 2022LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Sep 2022Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
- Feb 2023How to Train Large Models on Many GPUs?
- Mar 2023Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
- Apr 2023Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
- May 2023Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- Jul 2023Transformer Attention is off by one
- Jun 2024Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
- 353
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)
- 354
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
- 355
Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Deep Unsupervised Learning Using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [pdf]
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
- Feb 2024Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
- May 2024Diffusion Models
- Sep 2024Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
- Sep 2024Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
- 356
A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Sep 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Mar 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Aug 2017Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames? [pdf]
- Sep 2017Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight
- Oct 2017Transport for London plans to collect data from passengers' mobiles
- Dec 2017Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
- Feb 2018Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
- Nov 2018Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone
- Jan 2019Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
- 357
Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Jun 2014Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
- Jul 2014Inside Google Brain
- Feb 2016Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud
- Jun 2016Intro to Hidden Markov Models (2010) [pdf]
- Mar 2017ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google
- 358
End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jul 2016Master Plan, Part Deux
- Feb 2017The most cited deep learning papers
- May 2017Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
- Jun 2017Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
- Sep 2017Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms
- May 2018A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning
- Jul 2018Ask HN: What makes a good autonomous vehicles engineer?
- Jul 2018Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here
- 359
Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Pretraining on test set is all you need
- Feb 2025Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Claude 3 model family
- Apr 2024The "it" in AI models is the dataset
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Jul 2024Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- Feb 2025Grok3 Launch [video]
- 360
Technical Report on the Pangram AI-Generated Text Classifier
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024Technical Report on the Checkfor.ai AI-Generated Text Classifier
- Jul 2026Technical Report on the Pangram AI-Generated Text Classifier (2024)
- Oct 2024AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
- Nov 2025Open-source Zig book
- Jan 2026Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency
- Jan 2026For most flagged articles, nearly every cited sentence failed verification
- Feb 2026Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
- Apr 2026Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
- Jul 2026The bottleneck might be the air in the room
- Jul 2026Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning
- 361
European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jun 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash with Europe
- Jul 2016Training Computers to Find Future Criminals
- Aug 2016Make Algorithms Accountable
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Jun 2017You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Oct 2018How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)
- 362
Universal adversarial perturbations
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Universal adversarial perturbations
- Nov 2016How close are we to solving vision?
- Nov 2016Show HN: Interactive deep convnet visualization for Keras and Tensorflow
- Jan 2017OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation
- Jun 2017Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
- Jul 2017Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Nov 2018Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans
- 363
Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016Building machines that learn and think like people
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Causality in machine learning
- Apr 2017Ask HN: AI winter coming in next few years for AGI research?
- Apr 2017How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience
- Jul 2017The future of deep learning
- May 2019Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars
- Jun 2019An Explicitly Relational Neural Network Architecture
- 364
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
- 365
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)
- 366
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
- 367
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
- 368
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
- 369
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
- 370
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
- 371
End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2015End-To-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
- May 2015End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies [pdf]
- May 2015‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- May 2015‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
- Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
- Dec 2015The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
- Apr 2016An AI First World
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- May 2017AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match
- 372
Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024A Study on the Impact of Structured Output on Performance of LLMs
- Aug 2024A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of LLM
- Aug 2024A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of LLMs
- Aug 2024Structured Outputs in the API
- Sep 2024Show HN: Best Practices for Using Structured Output from LLMs
- Sep 2025Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs
- Jul 2026How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
- Aug 2026Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
- Oct 2026Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
- 373
Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering, Using Deep Learning
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks [pdf]
- Mar 2015Facebook's Memory Networks Demo
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Jun 2015Hound voice search NLP demo [video]
- Aug 2015Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
- Sep 2015Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
- Jun 2016DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
- Oct 2025A History of Large Language Models
- 374
STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning
Hacker News threads
- 375
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
- Sep 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Jul 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Aug 2021Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?
- Jan 2022Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
- Apr 2022The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
- May 2022Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
- May 2023How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From The 80s Took Over Crypto
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