Hacker Papers
- 26
In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
- May 2017Dave Patterson: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit
- Jun 2017The Age of Nvidia
- Aug 2017Google TPU Performance Analysis
- Feb 2018Cloud TPUs in Beta
- Apr 2019Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
- Feb 2023Introduction to FPGAs
- Oct 2024Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
- Apr 2025Google is winning on every AI front
- 27
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Mutlimodal neural networks converge to a shared statistical model of reality
- Apr 2026The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
- May 2024Show HN: Tarsier – Vision utilities for web interaction agents
- May 2024Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
- Mar 2025Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
- Jul 2025Ask HN: Will AI models over time converge into the same system?
- Dec 2025The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- Mar 2026Language Model Contains Personality Subnetworks
- Mar 2026I tried Karpathy's Autoresearch on an old research project
- Jul 2026Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
- 28
BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023BitNet: Scaling 1-Bit Transformers for Large Language Models
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- May 2025Towards the Cutest Neural Network
- Mar 2026Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
- Jul 2026Neutrino-1 8B
- 29
The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Jun 2014Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
- Jan 2017The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Jun 2017What Is Mathematics and What Should It Be? [pdf]
- Oct 2019Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes
- Mar 2020Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
- Mar 2020Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
- Oct 2020Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
- 30
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2013Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
- Nov 2013Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
- Dec 2013How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
- Jan 2014Why Bitcoin Matters
- Jun 2014It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork
- Jul 2015Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares
- Oct 2015Bitcoin-NG: A Secure, Faster, Better Blockchain
- Sep 2017Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
- Feb 2018Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
- Apr 2018A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
- 31
Responses to Critiques on Machine Learning of Criminality Perceptions (Addendum of arXiv:1611.04135)
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images
- Nov 2016Automatic Racial Discrimination via Artificial Intelligence
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Aug 2017China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy
- Sep 2017Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation
- Feb 2018Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
- Jun 2019BIY: Believe It Yourself
- Dec 2019The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture
- May 2020HU facial recognition software predicts criminality
- Aug 2022America’s First Black Physician (2021)
- 32
Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science'
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2015Review of Stephen Wolfram’s Book a New Kind of Science by Scott Aaronson (2002)
- Jun 2011Alpha Geek
- Aug 2013Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
- Feb 2016Black Hole Tech?
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Oct 2020Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Mar 2023Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not? Well, It’s Complicated
- Dec 2023Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics
- Jul 2024An approach to the fundamental theory of physics
- 33
The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
- Aug 2023How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?
- Nov 2023QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision
- Jan 2024Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
- Nov 2024AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia
- Jun 2026Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
- 34
On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures
Hacker News threads
- May 2019On the Turing Completeness of Modern NN Architectures (Transformer, Neural GPU)
- Jul 2020Is This a Turing Machine?
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2022Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Sep 2024Tinygrad will be the next Linux and LLVM
- Feb 2025Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
- 35
On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits [pdf]
- Mar 2017On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming
- Nov 2015Increased intelligence is a myth so far (2014)
- Dec 2015The cult of genius?
- Apr 2016This is for PZ Myers
- Mar 2017Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA
- May 2017Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
- Jul 2017China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)
- Jul 2020Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]
- 36
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Aug 2025Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
- Aug 2025About AI
- Sep 2025AI coding
- Oct 2025Our efforts, in part, define us
- Oct 2025Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?
- Dec 2025If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
- Jan 2026Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
- Oct 2026Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
- 37
DensePose From WiFi
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023DensePose from WiFi
- Jan 2023DensePose from WiFi Sensing: Full Body Tracking
- Jan 2023Accurate Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals and ML
- Jan 2023Accurate Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals
- Jan 2023WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What will be the first AI “incident”?
- Jul 2023French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics
- Sep 2023WiFi can read through walls
- May 2024Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 via IEEE 802.11bf standard
- Apr 2025BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
- Feb 2026WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
- 38
Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Leveraging Psychology for Large Language Models Enhancement via Emotional Prompt
- Sep 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Nov 2023Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
- Sep 2023Redditor uses ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS
- Oct 2023Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into solving CAPTCHA
- Nov 2023HN thread 38357413
- Jan 2024Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
- Jan 2024Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots
- Jan 2025Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
- Feb 2026How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
- May 2026If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog
- 39
Two notes on notation
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Two notes on notation (1992)
- Jun 2019Donald E. Knuth: Two notes on notation (1992)
- Jun 2026Two notes on notation (Knuth, 1992)
- May 2013PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
- Apr 20140^0
- Apr 2015Defining zero factorial
- Jun 2016A Quirky Function
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Oct 2017Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
- Nov 2019A History of APL in Fifty Functions (2016)
- Apr 2021Floor, Ceiling, Bracket
- 40
Thinking Like Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Thinking Like Transformers
- Jun 2023Thinking Like Transformers (pdf)
- Dec 2021The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning
- May 2023It's not just statistics: GPT-4 does reason
- Jun 2023From Word Models to World Models
- Aug 2023Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Feb 2026I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
- 41
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
- Jan 2024AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents"
- Jan 2024Two-Faced AI Language Models Learn to Hide Deception
- Jun 2024Anthropic: Expanding Access to Claude for Government
- Sep 2025Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
- Oct 2025NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
- Jun 2026The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
- Aug 2026Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor
- Oct 2026DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
- 42
The Renewed Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer: Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V
- Jul 2016Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM
- Dec 2016Ask HN: What's the value proposition of RISC-V?
- Sep 2017BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core
- Dec 2017Power9 to the People
- Dec 2017Boom v2: Open-source out-of-order RISC-V core [video]
- Mar 2022RISC-V is succeeding
- May 2022India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023
- Jan 2025XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
- 43
Formal Algorithms for Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Formal Algorithms for Transformers
- Jan 2023The Transformer Family
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
- May 2023Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- Jan 2024Relearning math as an adult
- Jun 2026Can I Buy Your KV Cache?
- 44
The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2026The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Nov 2023Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
- Jan 2024New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
- Jul 2024Mistral NeMo
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Aug 2026Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
- 45
Large Language Models as Markov Chains
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Large Language Models as Markov Chains
- Oct 2024LLMs as Markov Chains
- Oct 2024Large Language Models as Markov Chains
- Jul 2025Problem solving using Markov chains (2007) [pdf]
- Sep 2025The wall confronting large language models
- Oct 2025BERT is just a single text diffusion step
- Nov 2025AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
- Dec 2025Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
- May 2026Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- Sep 2026The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
- 46
Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity,
- Aug 2019Driven by Compression Progress (Schmidhuber, 2008)
- Apr 2023Driven By Compression Progress (2008)
- Sep 2017Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
- Oct 2017Intelligence Reconsidered
- Mar 2021Information Is Surprise (2015)
- Mar 2021Hutter Prize
- Jul 2024Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- Sep 2026Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
- 47
Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Monolith: Real time recommendation system with collisionless embedding table
- Nov 2022TikTok published an article on their recommendation system architecture
- Nov 2022Paper on 'Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System' by Bytedance Inc (TikTok)
- Dec 2022TikTok’s Secret Sauce
- Jan 2023Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?
- Feb 2023The secret sauce of TikTok’s recommendations
- Nov 2023X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
- Dec 2024TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
- Jan 2025TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
- May 2025You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer
- Feb 2026TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
- 48
Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy by DeepMind
- Jan 2023Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy [DeepMind, 2022]
- Aug 2022Deep Learning Alone Isn’t Getting Us to Human-Like AI
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Apr 2023Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
- May 2023Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
- Jun 2023Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
- Jun 2023Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
- Nov 2024Interview with gwern
- Jun 2026No, Artificial Intelligence is not Conscious - Ted Chiang
- 49
Memory Augmented Large Language Models are Computationally Universal
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Memory Augmented Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
- Feb 2023Memory Augmented Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
- Mar 2023Memory Augmented Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
- Feb 2023Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome
- Mar 2023Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for other people’s code
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Apr 2023Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties
- May 2023Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Around 75,000 Words
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- Sep 2025Markov chains are the original language models
- May 2026Claude Opus 4.8
- 50
Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting Optimized for Purely Functional Programming
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting for Purely Functional Programming
- Dec 2020A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover
- Feb 2021A simple ray tracer in Lean 4
- Jul 2022Reference count, don't garbage collect
- Sep 2022Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?
- Jun 2023Microsoft Research: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]
- Oct 2023Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
- Nov 2023HN thread 38359488
- Feb 2025Neut Programming Language
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