Hacker Papers
- 376
Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
- Oct 2018Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
- Oct 2018Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs
- Apr 2019Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
- Jul 2019A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
- Feb 2020Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
- Oct 2020The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
- Jul 2021Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
- Dec 2021Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
- 377
Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Modes and Neural Representations of the Hippocampal
- May 2022Relating transformers to neural representations of hippocampal formation
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Neural Representations of the Hippocampal Formation
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How to get back into AI?
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- Sep 2024Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- 378
Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) as Much as Text
- Nov 2023Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
- Dec 2023Embeddings, Vectors, and Arithmetic
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
- Jun 2024CryptGPT: A Simple Approach to Privacy-Preserving LLMs Using Vigenere Cipher
- Jul 2024Vision language models are blind
- Jan 2025Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
- 379
Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay
- Jun 2019Bitcoin climbs to $10k
- Dec 2019Erlay: A performance improvement to the Bitcoin network
- Mar 2020Erlay: Bandwidth-efficient Bitcoin transaction relay protocol
- Aug 2020Network Coding in P2P Networks
- Dec 2020Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
- Aug 2024A Technical Look at BitMessage: Learning From a Dead Project
- 380
Introducing Physical Warp Drives
Hacker News threads
- 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)
- 381
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction
- May 2026Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
- Jul 2024Explainability is not a game
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Nov 2025Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Sep 2026Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
- Oct 2026IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
- 382
Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
- Sep 2024Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognitio
- Sep 2024A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
- Dec 2024Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
- Apr 2025I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]
- Dec 2025Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
- Dec 2025Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
- Apr 2026Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds
- Apr 2026Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds
- Sep 2026216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
- Sep 2026LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
- 383
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Adversarial Network
- Sep 2016Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
- Jul 2020Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
- 384
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
- Jun 2019The transformer “explained”?
- Jul 2019MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
- Aug 2019GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
- Aug 2019Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
- Aug 2020Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
- May 2022Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- 385
Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- 386
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Unsupervised Rep. Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Advers. Nets
- Jul 2026Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional GANs
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Mar 2016Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- 387
Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Logic Gate Simulator
- Dec 2023Transformers on Chips
- Sep 2024GSoC'24: Differentiable Logic for Interactive Systems and Generative Music
- May 2025Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
- May 2025Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
- Nov 2025Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]
- Nov 2025TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
- 388
Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Zero shot translation learning
- Nov 2016Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Feb 2017Google's Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System
- Nov 2016Peeking into the architecture used for Google's Neural Machine Translation
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Mar 2017Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
- Jul 2017Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
- 389
Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2012Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous marketplace
- Aug 2012Paper on the Economic Activities of the Silk Road
- Sep 2012 A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
- Feb 2013Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
- Feb 2013Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month
- Mar 2013Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months
- Mar 2013The Big Book of Bitcoin - An introduction
- Jul 2013XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
- Nov 2015Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users?
- Apr 2018YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals
- 390
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)
- Aug 2020Flash Boys 2.0
- Sep 2020Frontrunning, Tx Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
- Apr 2019Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges
- Nov 2019Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
- Jan 2021Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)
- Feb 2021Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators
- Feb 2021Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing
- Sep 2022Flashbots
- 391
Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Model with Self Generated Instructions
- Mar 2023The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600
- Mar 2023Show HN: Finetune LLaMA-7B on commodity GPUs using your own text
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Dec 2024The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
- Jan 2025AI Engineer Reading List
- 392
Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Apr 2017Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out
- Jun 2017By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2019Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- 393
twister - a P2P microblogging platform
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2013Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT
- Dec 2013Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
- Jan 2015Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
- Mar 2015Twister – Decentralized p2p microblogging
- Dec 2015Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
- Jun 2018Show HN: P2P decentralized messaging application over Bitcoin Cash
- 394
Deduplicating Training Data Makes Language Models Better
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
- Aug 2022Chinchilla's Wild Implications
- Aug 2022Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
- Nov 2022Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Copilot class action?
- Jun 2024Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl
- Jan 202530% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
- 395
Alignment faking in large language models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
- Feb 2025Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
- Feb 2025Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Feb 2026An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
- Mar 2026Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
- 396
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
Hacker News threads
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Jul 2023Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
- Nov 2023Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee
- Dec 2023Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- 397
Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
- Aug 2023Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Oct 2023Why Generative AI Is Currently Doomed
- Apr 2024Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
- Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 398
Universal Transformers
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)
- 399
Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2020At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold
- Sep 2020The Collatz Conjecture: the simple math problem we still can’t solve
- Nov 2020AI Expert Roadmap
- Jan 2021DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
- Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
- Jul 2024AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
- 400
Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop along Arbitrary Computation Graphs
Hacker News threads
- May 2021Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (2020)
- Feb 2021Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
- Apr 2021Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors
- Apr 2021The Fourier transform is a neural network
- Jun 2023Artificial brains help understand real brains
- Sep 2023What Is an Emotion? William James’s Theory of How Our Bodies Affect Our Feelings
- May 2024Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress – Mark Zuckerberg [video]
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