Hacker Papers
- 501
Language Models Represent Space and Time
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Paper: LLMs have internal world model, and a sense of time and space
- Nov 2023A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
- Nov 2023Ask HN: Convince me LLMs aren't just autocomplete with lookahead
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Oct 2024Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse
- Jun 2025The Emperor's New LLM
- 502
The Free Will Theorem
Hacker News threads
- 503
GLU Variants Improve Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Sep 2024SwiGLU activation function causes instability in FP8 LLM training
- Jun 2026Don't trust large context windows
- Jun 2026Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8
- 504
Guiding Language Models of Code with Global Context using Monitors
Hacker News threads
- 505
One SQL to Rule Them All
Hacker News threads
- May 2019One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables
- Aug 2020Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
- Aug 2020Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
- Jan 2021Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?
- Apr 2021Internal Consistency in Streaming Systems
- Jun 2021Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files
- 506
Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Mar 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Mar 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Jun 2022Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
- Jun 2022Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
- Feb 2023Why Sat Is Hard
- Mar 2023Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days?
- Jun 2024Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
- 507
Consciousness as a State of Matter
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014Consciousness as a State of Matter
- Apr 2017Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)
- Jan 2019Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
- Dec 2015Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014)
- Dec 2015Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014)
- Jul 2017Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
- Sep 2017The Hardening of Consciousness
- Oct 2019The crisis in physics is not only about physics
- 508
A ConvNet for the 2020s
Hacker News threads
- May 2024A ConvNet for the 2020s
- Jan 2022A ConvNet for the 2020s
- Jan 2022A ConvNet for the 2020s
- Apr 2022Transformers Are All You Need
- Apr 2022Transformers Are All You Need
- Apr 2023Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows
- Jan 2024Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
- Aug 2024What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
- 509
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time (Babai's Preprint)
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
- Mar 2016The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-In-the-Game” Insiders
- Dec 2016An Algebra of Graphs
- Jun 2022Quantum chip takes microseconds to do task that takes a supercomputer 9k years
- 510
When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2017When the Cookie Meets the Blockchain [pdf]
- Aug 2017When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of cryptocurrency payments
- Aug 2017Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies
- Aug 2017Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
- Aug 2017Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
- Sep 2017It’s time to kill the web app
- Mar 2018Bitcoin faces regulatory crackdown, Bank of England warns
- Jun 2022ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode
- 511
FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
Hacker News threads
- May 2024FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms (2021)
- May 2021FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
- May 2021FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing
- May 2021An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
- 512
Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero [pdf]
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Dec 2021Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Feb 2026Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
- 513
The Android Platform Security Model (2023)
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019The Android Platform Security Model
- Apr 2025The Android Platform Security Model v3 (2023)
- Apr 2019The Android Platform Security Model [pdf]
- Mar 2022F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
- Mar 2022F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
- Mar 2025Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
- Mar 2026Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
- Jul 2026Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
- 514
Extending Context Window of Large Language Models via Positional Interpolation
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Extending Context Window of Large Language Models via Positional Interpolation
- Jun 2023XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens
- Jul 2023Llama 2 – Meta AI
- Jul 2023Llama 2 – Meta AI
- Nov 2023Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee
- Jan 2024Phi-2: Self-Extend Boosts Performance, Extends Context to 8k Without Training
- 515
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
- 516
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (full version)
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Quantum mechanics is undecidable ()
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Jun 2016Physicists discover an infinite number of quantum speed limits
- Nov 2023How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Mar 2025'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
- 517
The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- 518
Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack-Augmented Recurrent Nets
Hacker News threads
- 519
DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text
- Dec 2023BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text
- Dec 2023BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text
- Jun 2024Human neuroscience mustn't forget its human dimension
- May 2025Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
- Aug 2025Scientists shine a laser through a human head
- 520
LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
- Sep 2024LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
- Sep 2024I no longer use AI assistant
- Oct 2024Announcing the Tech for Palestine Incubator
- Oct 2024Show HN: Last CLI tool you will need
- Oct 2024LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
- Jun 2025O3 Turns Pro
- Sep 2026How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
- 521
Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)
- May 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text
- Nov 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text [pdf]
- Jul 2020An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
- Jul 2020CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
- Aug 2020Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Mar 2026A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control
- 522
Infini-gram: Scaling Unbounded n-gram Language Models to a Trillion Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
- Feb 2024Infini-Gram: Scaling Unbounded N-Gram Language Models to a Trillion Tokens
- Feb 2024Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
- Feb 2024Markov Chains are the Original Language Models
- Jun 2024Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in Their Residual Stream
- Nov 2025A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Apr 2026Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
- 523
Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021A dubious writing style emerging in science
- Aug 2021Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
- Jun 2023Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads
- Dec 2023Tortured conference series thriving in Computer Science
- Aug 2026Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- Aug 2026Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- 524
Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
- Dec 2024Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
- Feb 2025RLHF Book
- Mar 2025Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
- Mar 2025A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
- Nov 2025CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
- Jun 2026The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis
- 525
A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- May 2017A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- Aug 2016Introducing Quil: A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
- Sep 2016QCL – A Programming Language for Quantum Computers
- Jun 2017The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge
- Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
- Jun 2017Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
- Apr 2018Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
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