Hacker Papers

1. 351
   

   Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem with Artificial Neural Networks

   Giuseppe Carleo, Matthias Troyer · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2017Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems
   • May 2017C++ Code for Quantum Many Body Solutions with Artificial Neural Networks
   • Mar 2018Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]

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2. 352
   

   Deep Learning with Differential Privacy

   Martín Abadi et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2016Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
   • Mar 2018The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (2014) [pdf]
   • Mar 2022Launch HN: Sarus (YC W22) – Work on sensitive data with differential privacy

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3. 353
   

   Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling

   Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2020Reflections on Software Performance
   • Jun 2020C performance mystery: delete unused string constant
   • Jan 2025Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

   arXiv ↗
4. 354
   

   Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks

   Thomas N. Kipf, Max Welling · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
   • Dec 2020Deep Graph Library: Easy Deep Learning on Graphs
   • Jan 2023Ask HN: ML Papers to Implement

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5. 355
   

   Image-to-Markup Generation with Coarse-to-Fine Attention

   Yuntian Deng et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2017Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot
   • Dec 2017Accessibility Through Semantic HTML
   • Nov 2023Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code

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6. 356
   

   SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit

   Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2018Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
   • Jul 2020Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
   • Nov 2024Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

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7. 357
   

   Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern convolutional object detectors

   Jonathan Huang et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
   • Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
   • Nov 2019Show HN: OpenCV based multi-object-tracker with various object detection models

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8. 358
   

   Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks

   Chelsea Finn et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
   • Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
   • Mar 2019Gödel Machine

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9. 359
   

   Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures

   Denny Britz et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2017Google Team Refines GPU Powered Neural Machine Translation
   • Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
   • Oct 2024Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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10. 360
    

    Domain Randomization for Transferring Deep Neural Networks from Simulation to the Real World

    Josh Tobin et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2017Spam detection in the physical world
    • Feb 2021A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning
    • Apr 2021Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)

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11. 361
    

    Deep Learning is Robust to Massive Label Noise

    David Rolnick et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2022Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail
    • Oct 2022Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
    • Jul 2024A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens

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12. 362
    

    Quantum resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms

    Martin Roetteler et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
    • Aug 2024Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
    • Mar 2026Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]

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13. 363
    

    Recurrent Relational Networks

    Rasmus Berg Palm et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
    • Jul 2023Code Interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week

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14. 364
    

    Deep Image Prior

    Dmitry Ulyanov et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2018This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
    • Feb 2021Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition
    • Dec 2021HyperNeRF

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15. 365
    

    A Multi-Horizon Quantile Recurrent Forecaster

    Ruofeng Wen et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2019Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?
    • Jul 2021Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
    • Dec 2022Statistical vs. Deep Learning forecasting methods

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16. 366
    

    Secure Encrypted Virtualization is Unsecure

    Zhao-Hui Du et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2020How SGX Fails in Practice
    • Jul 2020Confidential VMs
    • Mar 2021Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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17. 367
    

    Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs

    Timur Garipov et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2023Knowledge Is a Region in Weight Space for Fine-Tuned Language Models
    • Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
    • Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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18. 368
    

    Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games

    Rachit Dubey et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2019Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test
    • May 2020Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
    • Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model

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19. 369
    

    MOSQUITO: Covert Ultrasonic Transmissions between Two Air-Gapped Computers using Speaker-to-Speaker Communication

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2019US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds
    • Apr 2023HN thread 35355540
    • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

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20. 370
    

    Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning

    Lydia T. Liu et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2019Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
    • Sep 2020Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial
    • Dec 2020AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

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21. 371
    

    Averaging Weights Leads to Wider Optima and Better Generalization

    Pavel Izmailov et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2020An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions
    • Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
    • Apr 2024Schedule-Free Learning – A New Way to Train

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22. 372
    

    WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking

    Arjaldo Karaj et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2018Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking
    • Dec 2019A New Search Engine
    • Jul 2023Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

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23. 373
    

    Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)

    Nuno Preguiça et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
    • Mar 2022Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant [pdf]
    • Dec 2022Ask HN: What are best patterns for events in distributed transactions?

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24. 374
    

    AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Policies from Data

    Ekin D. Cubuk et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2018Improving Deep Learning Performance with AutoAugment
    • Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
    • May 2019Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence

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25. 375
    

    Neural Guided Constraint Logic Programming for Program Synthesis

    Lisa Zhang et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2023Compilers for the Future
    • Aug 2023Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
    • Jan 2025What Is miniKanren?

    arXiv ↗

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