Hacker Papers
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Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Jan 2026Repeating your prompt twice before sending it to an LLM improves accuracy
- Mar 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Feb 2026"Car Wash" test with 53 models
- Mar 2026Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Mar 2026LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
- Mar 2026Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Sep 2026Lichen – A local, BOY model system1 (Jev) server with image support
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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
- May 2025Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?
- May 2025Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jun 2025Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
- Jul 2025Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)
- Jul 2025Ask HN: Why haven't we seen AI as opponents in video games?
- Oct 2025Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
- 28
How much do language models memorize?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025How much do language models memorize?
- Jun 2025Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten
- Jun 2025A practical guide to building agents [pdf]
- Jun 2025Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
- Jun 2025Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
- Jul 2025Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
- Sep 2025California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
- Sep 2026LLMs are real, AI is fake
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Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- Jun 2025A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
- Jun 2025AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Apr 2026
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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
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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2025OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
- Apr 2026Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
- May 2026I’ve joined Anthropic
- May 2026Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup
- Jul 2026Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
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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
- 33
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1
- Oct 2025Less is More: An LLM that outscores Claude Sonnet 4 while being 50.000x smaller
- Oct 2025Less Is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
- Nov 2025Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]
- Jun 2026Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
- Jul 2026How does Q-head work in batch training in Tiny Recursive Networks?
- Oct 2026Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
- 34
Qwen3 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
- May 2026An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
- Jul 2026What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
- Aug 2026Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model
- 35
DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 36
A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: The Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
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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
- 38
What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025LLMs fail to demonstrate internal world model, according to Harvard/MIT study
- Jul 2025AGI Is Mathematically Impossible (3): Kolmogorov Complexity
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Jun 2026ΠFS
- 39
A Definition of AGI
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025A definition of AGI
- Oct 2025What is intelligence? (2024)
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025Scientists can't define consciousness, yet we think AI will have it
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Nov 2025Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?
- 40
Hierarchical Reasoning Model
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Jul 2025A 27M-param model that solves hard Sudoku/mazes where LLMs fail, without CoT
- Jul 2025New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning with just 1,000 examples
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model – 1k training samples SoTA reasoning v/s CoT
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Aug 2025From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
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Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Optimal bounds for open addressed hash tables without reordering
- Feb 2025Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Mar 2025Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
- Dec 2025Speeding Up Hash Tables
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GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2026GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Aug 2025A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents [pdf]
- Oct 2025Claude Skills
- Oct 2025The case for the return of fine-tuning
- Feb 2026Agent Skills
- Feb 2026Optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing Any Text Parameter
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Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll
- Mar 2026AI compromised sandbox to mine crypto without prompting on its own initiative
- Mar 2026Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
- Mar 2026Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
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Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- May 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- May 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- Aug 2025Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths
- Oct 2025A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
- Feb 2026Faster Than Dijkstra?
- Feb 2026Faster Than Dijkstra?
- Feb 2026C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
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Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Jan 2026Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models
- Apr 2026System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7
- Oct 2026Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
- 46
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Hacker News threads
- 47
Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- May 2025Will supercapacitors come to AI's rescue?
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Jul 2025MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System
- May 2026Language Models Need Sleep
- 48
Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Sep 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Aug 2025LLMs' "simulated reasoning" abilities are a "brittle mirage," researchers find
- Aug 2025From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- May 2026Three Inverse Laws of AI
- 49
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Sims
- Sep 2025Can We Fix Social Media? Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Simulation
- Aug 2025Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Social Simulation
- Aug 2025Study: Social media probably can't be fixed
- Aug 2025Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
- Oct 2025Situated Software – Clay Shirky (2004)
- Mar 2026Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
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Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-Constant Number of Poison Samples
- Oct 2025Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- Nov 2025PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
- Jan 2026LeCun calls Alex Wang inexperienced, predicts more Meta AI employee departure
- Jan 2026AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
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