Hacker Papers
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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
- 29
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
- 30
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?
- 31
Expanding Confusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2011Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating
- Jul 2012How big is the entire universe?
- Aug 2015Olbers' paradox
- Aug 2018Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered
- Jun 202012 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
- Aug 2023Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified
- Dec 2023Astronomers posit that we live in a giant void
- Apr 2024Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
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No need for conspiracy: Self-organized cartel formation in a modified trust game
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2012Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists
- Mar 2014How are cold-calling ceasefires illegal?
- Feb 2015The Billion Dollar Startup Club
- Jul 2015Airbnb, My $1B Lesson
- Jan 2016Economics Simulation
- Aug 2017Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
- Mar 2021U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes
- Aug 2024San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents
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How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset (PDF)
- Oct 2008"Anonymous" Facebook Dataset Is Identified as Harvard Students
- Jan 2011$3 million machine learning prize
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Dec 2017Netflix tweet raises privacy questions
- Jul 2023California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
- Sep 2025Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
- Apr 2026It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Apr 2026Show HN: I'm tracking 197 known exposures of health data from UK Biobank
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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]
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One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2014One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
- Apr 2014Data Scientist Interviews
- Aug 2014ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition
- Nov 2015TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- May 2016NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
- Jul 2016Nvidia CEO Reveals New TITAN X at Stanford Deep Learning Meetup
- Feb 2020Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
- Jun 2022Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks
- 36
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2013The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
- Apr 2015Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
- Apr 2016Interview with Scott Aaronson
- Sep 2017Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"
- Jul 2019Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (2017)
- Mar 2023Not by AI
- Mar 2023A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Jul 2024A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications
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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
- Oct 2018Neuroscientist found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
- Dec 2021Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed
- Feb 2022Google Search Is Dying
- Nov 2022Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
- May 2023Reddit comments and submissions from 2005-06 to 2022-12 collected by Pushshift
- Dec 2023At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
- Aug 2024Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
- 38
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2016New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything
- Oct 2017The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Jun 2026Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
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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
- 40
A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2013Poll on nature of reality
- Nov 2016A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics (2013)
- Nov 2014Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
- Sep 2015Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
- Oct 2015Quantum effects in relatively large systems
- Oct 2017The Scientific Case for P≠NP
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Jun 2020What is a photon? (2017)
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- 41
Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2013Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer
- Dec 2017Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
- Sep 2019IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
- May 2021Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf]
- Jan 2024Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
- May 2024What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
- Jan 20262026 Predictions Scorecard
- 42
The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]
- May 2008The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
- May 2024The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)
- Oct 2009Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments?
- Nov 2019Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
- Apr 2022Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
- Oct 2023The Wait Equation and AI Investment
- Jan 20254.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Jan 2026Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
- 43
Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
- Jan 2015Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2013) [pdf]
- Jan 2014Deep Mind's neural networks play 7 Atari 2600 games with more skill than a human
- Jan 2014Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
- Jan 2014Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris
- Dec 2014Google's Intelligence Designer
- Jan 2015Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- May 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jan 2017CS 294 Deep Reinforcement Learning, Spring 2017
- Jan 2024Self-Rewarding Language Models
- 44
Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled: High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2014Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled
- Dec 2014Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled [pdf]
- Dec 2014Deep Learning Reading List
- Jun 2015Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may not be legal
- Nov 2015Impressive Demonstration of Facebook's AI by Yann LeCun
- May 2016IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson
- Jun 2016AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video]
- Oct 2016Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
- Jul 2017NO Need to Worry about Adversarial Examples for Autonomous Vehicles
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- 45
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
- 46
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
- 47
Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look
- Sep 2022Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look (2014)
- Aug 2026Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look
- Jul 2016There Is No Distinctly Scientific Method
- Oct 2016So You Want to Learn Physics
- Jan 2017Why read old philosophy?
- Nov 2017Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire
- Jan 2022Why Quantum Mechanics?
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- Jun 2025Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018)
- 48
Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
- Apr 2015Adversarial examples – Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2014Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples [problem with deep networks]
- Mar 2015Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Apr 2015Breaking Linear Classifiers on ImageNet
- Jun 2015Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
- Nov 2016Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-Of-the-Art Face Recognition [pdf]
- Jul 2017Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform
- Jul 2017A Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- 49
Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
- May 2015Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
- Oct 2012Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
- Dec 2012Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
- Apr 2013Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation
- Feb 2014Is the Universe a Simulation?
- Jul 2014The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
- Jun 2015Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Government
- Dec 2015Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science
- Jul 2021Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second
- 50
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2012Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors [pdf]
- Dec 2012Why use SVM
- Feb 2014Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
- May 2014What does a neural network actually do?
- Oct 2015Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Nov 2016Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
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