Hacker Papers
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A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
- Oct 2026A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
- Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
- Feb 2021Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power
- Aug 2024Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
- Aug 2026Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math
- 27
Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- Jun 2026Do Agents.md Files Help Coding Agents?
- Feb 2026Writing code is cheap now
- Feb 2026Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)
- Feb 2026Show HN: I got tired of syncing Claude/Gemini/AGENTS.md and .cursorrules
- Mar 2026New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding
- Mar 2026Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder
- Jun 2026Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
- Jun 2026Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
- Oct 2026I paid people to try and follow my README
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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
- 29
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Byte latent transformer: Patches scale better than tokens (2024)
- Dec 2024Tokenisation Is NP-Complete
- Dec 2024Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- May 2025Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020)
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
- Jun 2026Data Compression Explained
- Sep 2026When did Google get so weird?
- Oct 2026Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes
- 30
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Impolite LLM prompts consistently outperform polite ones
- Oct 2025Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
- May 2026The User Is Visibly Frustrated
- Jun 2026Claude Fable 5
- Jul 2026I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it
- Jul 2026Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
- Aug 2026Sol Loves to Cheat
- Aug 2026The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
- Oct 2026Anthropic bans users from abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
- 31
Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance
- Feb 2025The Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
- Feb 2024Should We Respect LLMs? Studying the Influence of Politeness on LLM Performance
- Sep 2025A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
- Sep 2025Qwen3-VL
- Feb 2026Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- Oct 2026Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
- 32
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
- Feb 2024Hallucination Is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
- May 2026Hallucination Is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
- Feb 2024Ask HN: Has Generative AI plateaued?
- May 2024Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Sep 2024GPTs and Hallucination
- Oct 2024Yann LeCun Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
- Dec 2024AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)
- Jan 2026Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
- May 2026Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers
- Oct 2026“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
- 33
Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Nov 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Dec 2021Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
- May 2022The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
- Oct 2023The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Mar 2024Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why
- Oct 2024GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
- Feb 2026GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
- Oct 2026“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
- 34
ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
Hacker News threads
- 35
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)
- 36
SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023SWE-Bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
- Feb 2024SWE-BENCH: Can language models resolve real-world GitHub issues?
- Jan 2024Researchers say generative AI isn't replacing devs any time soon
- Sep 2025Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
- Dec 2025Django: what’s new in 6.0
- Mar 2026Ask HN: Does code style matter much anymore?
- Oct 2026Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
- 37
SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025SynthID-Image: Invisibly Watermarking AI-Generated Imagery
- Apr 2026ChatGPT Images 2.0
- May 2026OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
- May 2026OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
- Jun 2026Appreciating Exif
- Oct 2026SynthID Detector
- 38
CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography [2017]
- Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
- Sep 2024Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tags
- Aug 2025How attention sinks keep language models stable
- Mar 2026No right to relicense this project
- Oct 2026Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
- 39
The JPEG XL Image Coding System: History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale, and Future
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale
- Jun 2025The JPEG XL Image Coding System
- Jul 2025JPEG XL Coding System: History, Features, Tools, Design Rationale and Future
- Mar 2026JPEG Compression
- Aug 2026Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
- Sep 2026The case against JPEG XL
- Oct 2026Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
- 40
Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
- May 2024Vision Transformers Need Registers
- May 2024Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- Feb 2026Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- Sep 2026How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Oct 2026I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
- 41
Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
- May 2025How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Aug 2026Software engineering is about managing complexity
- Oct 2026I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
- 42
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
- Apr 2023TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with industry-leading efficiency
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
- May 2023MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator
- May 2023Nvidia DGX GH200: The First 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
- May 2025OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
- Jun 2025Basic Facts about GPUs
- Oct 2026Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
- 43
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 44
Ultimate physical limits to computation
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]
- Jul 2011Ultimate physical limits to computation
- Feb 2018Ultimate physical limits to computation
- Nov 2010128-bit storage: are you high?
- Apr 2011Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work
- Oct 2012The game of life emulated in the game of life
- Jun 2015Universal Limits on Computation (2004) [pdf]
- Apr 2016Bremermann's limit
- Jul 2019First 3D Nanotube and RRAM ICs Come Out of Foundry
- Jan 2021Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
- Oct 2022Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln
- 45
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
- Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (2025)
- Jul 2026Fields Medals 2026
- Sep 2026The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
- Oct 2026LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
- 46
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
- Jun 2025The Illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
- Jul 2025OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
- Dec 2025Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
- Feb 2026I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."
- Mar 2026Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
- Oct 2026An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
- 47
Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
- Feb 2025Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)
- Apr 2025AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
- Oct 2025Reasoning is not model improvement
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Oct 2026How accurately calibrated is Jev?
- 48
Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2022(typo in URL, ignore)
- Jul 2022DeepMind: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent RL
- Dec 2022Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
- Oct 2025Poker Tournament for LLMs
- Oct 2026With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
- 49
Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025CaMeL: Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers
- Jun 2025EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot
- Jul 2025Code execution through email: How I used Claude to hack itself
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Sep 2025Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
- Feb 2026Don't trust AI agents
- Jul 2026Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
- Oct 2026Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
- 50
Recursive Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Recursive Language Models
- Jan 2026General plug-and-play inference lib for RLMs
- Jan 2026Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
- Jan 2026MIT Researchers Destroy the Context Window Limit [video]
- Jan 2026Show HN: RLM-MCP Analyze Files in Claude Code Using MIT's recursive LM paper
- Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
- Apr 2026RLM: LLMs to process arbitrarily long prompts with inference-time scaling (2025)
- Jun 2026
- Oct 2026Context Language Models
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