Hacker Papers
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The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
- Sep 2018Is it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
- Jul 2025The Silurian Hypothesis (2018)
- Jun 2019Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
- Aug 2019Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Oct 2019The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
- Aug 2020Lost Advanced Civilizations
- Jan 2021Who Invented the Alphabet?
- Aug 2023Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeast Australia
- May 2024Was the Stone Age the Wood Age?
- Nov 2024The Silurian Hypothesis
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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)
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"Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016“Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier [pdf]
- Apr 2016[pdf] Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
- Oct 2020Explaining black box models with LIME
- Sep 2016Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding
- Mar 2017War by any means: The story of DARPA
- Jul 2017Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots
- Dec 2017DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes with Deep Neural Networks
- Dec 2017A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
- Jul 2019Interpretable Machine Learning
- Apr 2020Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning
- Jun 2024No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides
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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
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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?
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World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018World Models
- Mar 2018World Models
- Apr 2018A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper
- Jul 2018Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
- Nov 2019The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated
- Jun 2021DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI
- Jul 2021More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
- Feb 2026The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation
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Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules by Sabour, Frosst, Geoffrey E Hinton (CapsNet))
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Hinton's 'Capsule Networks' Unveiled
- Nov 2017Google A.I. researchers develop alternative architecture for neural networks
- Nov 2017A Year in Computer Vision
- Dec 2017Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
- Feb 2018Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"
- Jun 2019Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
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Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2016This AI Boom Will Also Bust
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Mar 2017Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Nov 2017Building A.I. That Can Build A.I
- Mar 2018Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
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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
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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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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
- Mar 2017Baidu Deep Voice Explained: Part 1 – the Inference Pipeline
- Oct 2017Finding Waldo Using Semantic Segmentation and Tiramisu
- May 2018Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
- Oct 2018A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
- Apr 2019Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?
- Aug 2022Show HN: Nevermind XOR – Deep Learning Has an Issue with Sin
- Jan 2026Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2016Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2019Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
- Sep 2016Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
- Oct 2016[MIT Lecture] Connections between physics and deep learning
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- May 2017Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Oct 2018How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
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Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold
- Feb 2016Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
- Mar 2016CS143: Compilers (2011)
- Oct 2016How to speed up the Rust compiler
- Dec 2016Nectar: A Native JavaScript Compiler Inspired by Crystal Lang and Nim Lang
- Oct 2021Jitterdämmerung (2015, Updated 2021)
- Aug 2022Big changes ahead for Deno
- Nov 2022More evidence for problems in VM warmup
- Sep 2023ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++
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Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2023Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model (2019)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Nov 2019AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
- Aug 2020AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
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Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
- Sep 2016Google's Neural Machine Translation: Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines
- Sep 2016Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
- Oct 2016Learning Reinforcement Learning, with Code, Exercises, and Solutions
- Nov 2016Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
- Feb 2017Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
- Mar 2018Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
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Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
- Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
- Feb 2018Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI
- Nov 2019John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
- Feb 2023Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets Is Practical
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- May 2025Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
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A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Nov 2024Overview of differential geometry for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Sep 2025A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [pdf]
- May 2017How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
- Nov 2017Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles
- Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]
- Dec 2018Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained
- Apr 2019Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Mar 2024Claude 3 Opus reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts
- Dec 2025What I don’t like about chains of thoughts (2023)
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Binarized Neural Networks: Training Deep Neural Networks with Weights and Activations Constrained to +1 or -1
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Stacked Approximated Regression Machine: A Simple Deep Learning Approach
- Oct 2016Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Sep 2017Nonlinear Computation in Deep Linear Networks
- Oct 2018MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Debiasing Word Embeddings
- Jul 2016Man Is to Computer Programmer as Woman Is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embedding
- Jan 2017Man to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
- Sep 2016A.I. Doesn't Get Black Twitter
- Jul 2017Ask HN: Any tools to easily cluster ideas/notes by similarity?
- Oct 2017Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem
- Mar 2018Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors
- Oct 2018Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything
- Jul 2019King – Man + Woman = King?
- Sep 2019600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
- Sep 2020FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord
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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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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Dec 2018Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
- Jan 2019Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2
- Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
- Mar 2019‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
- Sep 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2024Where is Noether's principle in machine learning?
- Mar 2024On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
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Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching (Khuong and Morin, 2015)
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Assist threads
- Oct 2015Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Processing Power (2014)
- Jun 2017SIMD / GPU Friendly Branchless Binary Search
- May 2020Lomuto's Comeback
- Jul 2020Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster
- Feb 2022Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search
- Nov 2024Fastest Branchless Binary Search
- Jul 2026Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)
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RL$^2$: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2017Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- Feb 2023What were the 40 research papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
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Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Deepmind Navigates 3D Maze WithAsynchronous Methods 4 Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Feb 2016Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2016Google DeepMind: Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2016How Far to AI Utopia?
- Apr 2016Visual Doom AI Competition
- Jun 2016Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Keras and OpenAI Gym
- Aug 2016Reinforcement Learning and DQN – learning to play from pixels
- Sep 2016BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Mar 2017Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
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