Hacker Papers
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Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Jul 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Mar 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Mar 2018The Role of Luck in Life Is Still Misunderstood
- Apr 2018Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
- Oct 2018The annoying habits of highly effective people
- Dec 2019Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
- Sep 2020Six Figures in 6 days
- Jun 2021Why Success is more Luck than Hard Work
- Oct 2023Private Equity Is Devouring the U.S. Economy
- Jun 2026Hacker News actively blocking SpaceX IPO submissions
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Model Cards for Model Reporting
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Aug 2023AI Nutrition Facts
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Dec 2024OpenAI o1 system card
- Jul 2025ChatGPT agent System Card [pdf]
- May 2026Grok 4.3
- Jun 2026System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]
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A Neural Conversational Model
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jun 2015A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]
- Jul 2015Getting closer to 'Ex Machina' – A Neural Conversational Model by Google[pdf]
- Jun 2015Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy with Its Programmer
- Aug 2015A Beginner’s Guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- Jan 2016BotLibre – Free Open Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
- Mar 2016Generating Factoid Questions with RNNs: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
- Jun 2016The truth about deep learning
- Nov 2016Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
- Jan 2020Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
- Jun 2026What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?
- 29
Failure of Normalization in Impredicative Type Theory with Proof-Irrelevant Propositional Equality
Hacker News threads
- 30
The Case for Learned Index Structures
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2017My Favorite Papers of 2017
- Feb 2018Chip advances require fresh ideas, speakers say
- May 2018An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sorting
- Nov 2018Optimal Shard Placement in a Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Cluster
- Oct 2020Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
- Apr 2023Bert: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
- Nov 2018TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks
- Feb 2019Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT
- Mar 2019Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
- Sep 2019At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- Jul 2023Ask HN: How to Break into AI Engineering
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Jun 2026Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
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What is algebraic about algebraic effects and handlers?
Hacker News threads
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Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
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Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar (2015)
- Jun 2021Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar
- Feb 2015Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar [pdf]
- Sep 2018Raytracing a Black Hole
- Mar 2019Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
- Apr 2019Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
- Aug 2024Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- Nov 2024Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
- May 2026Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
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OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Extended Version)
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
- Apr 2020OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jun 2021Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking
- May 2026Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
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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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A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
- Dec 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
- Dec 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula [pdf]
- Dec 2019A new way to make quadratic equations easy
- Nov 2021A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
- Nov 2021A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
- Mar 2022Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages
- Oct 2022Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes
- Apr 2024The Stacks Project: A Wikipedia of algebraic geometry (2022)
- May 2026The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
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Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
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KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- 40
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks
- Mar 2018The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Training Pruned Neural Networks
- Oct 2020The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2019)
- May 2019Smarter Training of Neural Networks
- Aug 2019Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
- Jun 2020Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Oct 2022Substitute certain overhyped programming terms with more accurate replacements
- May 2023AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Apr 2026Show HN: SparseLab–real sparse training(CSR+custom kernel) in PyTorch, CPU-first
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Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 42
Basic Category Theory
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Basic Category Theory
- Jan 2017[1612.09375] Basic Category Theory [pdf]
- Jan 2017Basic Category Theory (textbook)
- Aug 2019Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)
- Aug 2020Graphical Linear Algebra
- Oct 2022Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory [pdf]
- Apr 2026Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
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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 resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms
Hacker News threads
- 45
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Oct 2021An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2026An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (2018)
- Oct 2018Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
- Nov 2018Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
- Jun 2019A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
- Dec 2020Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2022Probabilistic Models of Cognition
- Aug 2023A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
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Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance
Hacker News threads
- 47
Delta State Replicated Data Types
Hacker News threads
- 48
Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Feb 2015Ioffe and Szegedy get 4.8% top-5 test on ImageNet(beating recent MSR result)
- Feb 2026Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training (2015)
- May 2015The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (2012)
- Apr 2016Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Mar 2017Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks
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On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
- Jan 2019On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
- Mar 2021On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality
- Apr 2019Correctness – A paradigm for sustainable software development
- Jun 2019Storm 2.0
- Jan 2021 Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
- May 2021Functional Programming in Go with Generics
- Jun 2021Immutability Changes Everything (2016)
- May 2022Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021)
- May 2023Proposal to reduce loop variable scoping in Go
- Dec 2025The programmers who live in Flatland
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Adversarial Patch
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch
- Dec 2017Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- May 2018Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert
- Dec 2018Ask HN: Has anyone used adversarial patches for effect?
- Aug 2019Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries
- Jan 2020How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
- Apr 2020Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
- Mar 2024The Elements of Differentiable Programming
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