Hacker Papers
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Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jun 2019Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017)
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jul 2017Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning
- Apr 2018Skynet Today – accessible and informed coverage of AI hype and panic
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Jul 2023FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm
- Dec 2023Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
- Dec 2023Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE
- Jun 2024AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
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How real are real numbers?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2017How real are real numbers? (2004)
- Aug 2020How real are real numbers? (2004)
- Feb 2019How real are real numbers?
- Nov 2016A One-Line Proof of the Infinitude of Primes
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- May 2019Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (1947)
- Aug 2020An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]
- Dec 2021Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
- Jan 2023An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice
- Aug 2025God created the real numbers
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Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Deep learning in neural networks: An overview
- Dec 2023Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview
- Dec 2014Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Recommended Readings
- Dec 2014Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)
- Sep 2016Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
- Jan 2017AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future
- Jul 2018Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s
- Jun 2019Ask HN: Please suggest review papers in CS topics
- Nov 2023Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
- Sep 2024OpenAI to become for-profit company
- 29
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
Hacker News threads
- May 2020GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Jun 2024Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Nov 2024Language models are few-shot learners (2020)
- Jun 2020GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
- Jul 2020Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3
- Oct 2020AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
- Oct 2022Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
- Feb 2023Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
- May 2023Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Parkinson's Biomarker
- Nov 2023Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2020Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
- Jun 2022Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
- Sep 2026Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (first "scaling laws" paper from 2020)
- Jan 2020Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data
- Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
- Feb 2023Ask HN: How “real” are AI scaling laws?
- Apr 2023OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
- Dec 2023Do large language models need all those layers?
- Oct 2024Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Oct 2026Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
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Intriguing properties of neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks [pdf]
- Jan 2019Intriguing properties of neural networks (2014)
- Jan 2015Intriguing properties of neural networks
- Apr 2014Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology
- Dec 2014Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled
- Mar 2015Life Lessons from Machine Learning
- May 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Apr 2017Optical illusions that flummox computers
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Dec 2017Interview with Xavier Leroy
- Jan 2022Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says
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Featherweight Go
Hacker News threads
- May 2020Featherweight Go
- May 2020Featherweight Go (A generics design for Go)
- Dec 2021Featherweight Go [pdf]
- Jun 2020Philip Wadler's talk on generics for Go (“Featherweight Go”)
- Jun 2020The Next Step for Generics
- Nov 2020Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
- Jan 2021A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
- May 2021Oxide: The Essence of Rust (2020)
- Mar 2022How generics are implemented in Go 1.18
- Nov 2024Borgo Programming Language
- Aug 2026Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
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Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space (2013)
- Aug 2013Learning the Meaning of Words
- Sep 2013word2vec in yhat: Word vector similarity
- Jun 2015Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
- Dec 2015John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video]
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Sep 2017What every software engineer should know about search
- Oct 2023Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
- May 2025A visual exploration of vector embeddings
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Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Nov 2017AI Safety: problem of accidents in machine learning systems
- Jun 2016Concrete AI Safety Problems
- May 2017The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
- Oct 2017OpenAI's Researchers: Protecting Against AI’s Existential Threat
- Oct 2018Ask HN: Examples of AI ethical principles?
- Nov 2019Safety Gym
- May 2021Anthropic AI
- Apr 2023Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
- Jul 2026Our position on open-weights models
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Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
- Oct 2017Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- Aug 2016Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Aug 2018Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
- Dec 2018Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
- Jan 2022Intuition is a “superpower”
- Apr 2022The singularity is close?
- Mar 2023And yet It Understands
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On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Jun 2024The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Apr 2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Nov 2018Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
- Aug 2021The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2021An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
- Nov 2022Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
- Jan 2023How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
- Jul 2025A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
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How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
- Jan 2020A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- May 2020The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Sep 2023Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Jan 2025Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work
- Mar 2026Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]
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Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms (2001)
- Oct 2019Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
- Aug 2010Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
- Mar 2013Pilot waves: oil droplets model quantum behavior
- Sep 2014Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Feb 2018You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
- Sep 2021Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
- Oct 2021Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
- Dec 2023Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)
- Mar 2025Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
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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)
- 40
NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
- Jul 2015NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
- Nov 2016NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- May 2015Is Quantum Mechanics an Island in Theoryspace? (2004) [pdf]
- May 2015Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]
- Nov 2015Computability: The Greatest Law of Physics
- Dec 2015A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)
- Nov 2016The P=?NP Poll (2002) [pdf]
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Aug 2023Thermodynamic Linear Algebra (solving linear systems in O(n))
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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
- 42
Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015Extending “Let It Go” with recurrent neural network
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Apr 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- May 2016Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
- Apr 2017Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
- Aug 2020An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
- Jan 2023Realistic Computer-Generated Handwriting
- Feb 2025Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs
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Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
- Apr 2023Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2015)
- Mar 2016Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Nov 2020A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
- Nov 2023Google is not a tech company
- Dec 2023LLM Visualization
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- May 2025When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
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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
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Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Aug 2020Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks (2013)
- Jan 2015A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
- Jan 2015Image Kernels Explained Visually
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018For AI to thrive, it must explain itself
- Sep 2023Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool
- Mar 2024How do neural networks learn?
- Oct 2026Feature Visualization – How neural networks build understanding of images (2017)
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An exact mapping between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)
- Jul 2015An Exact Mapping Between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
- Dec 2014Deep Learning and Renormalization Group Thery
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Dec 2014Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Sep 2016Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
- Nov 2016Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Jun 2024How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
- May 2025Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
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Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2012Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Dec 2019New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
- Jan 2021Are Experts Real?
- Jul 2023Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
- Oct 2024Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
- Sep 2026DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
- Oct 2026CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
- Mar 2012ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
- Aug 2015Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
- Jun 2017Why is the Internet so Slow?
- Jan 2018Network Latencies and Speed of Light
- Feb 2021The Dunant subsea cable
- Nov 2021Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly
- Aug 2024DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- Oct 2025A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
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Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015New, more powerful Google Translate app
- Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Dec 2020AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
- Jun 2023What Are Embeddings?
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Apr 2025The Leaderboard Illusion
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There are no particles, there are only fields
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jun 2024There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jul 2026There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Sep 2016Struggles with the Continuum
- Nov 2017Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (2011)
- Jul 2019What’s Going on During Wave Function ‘Collapse’
- Jul 2019The Trouble with Many Worlds
- Dec 2020Thirty Years of ‘Against Measurement’
- Sep 2024What Is a Particle? (2020)
- Feb 2026Cosmologically Unique IDs
- Jun 2026How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
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