Hacker Papers
- 551
If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Nov 2022If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (2021)
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Feb 2021Once we can see them, it’s too late
- Sep 2021If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- Jun 2024Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites
- Nov 2024Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress
- 552
Category theory for scientists (Old version)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]
- May 2013Category theory for scientists
- Mar 2025Category theory for scientists (Old version)
- Jul 2013Monads Made Difficult
- Nov 2014A Categorical Manifesto (1991) [pdf]
- Dec 2014Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
- Feb 2021Ask HN: What mathematical background do I need to understand category theory?
- 553
DeepMath - Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016DeepMath – Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection
- Jul 2016Behind Wolfram Alpha’s Mathematical Induction-Based Proof Generator
- Nov 2016Tensorflow Deepmath: Experiments towards neural network theorem proving
- Feb 2017Summary of 'Programs with Common Sense' (1959) by John McCarthy
- Oct 2020Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI
- 554
Apparent evidence for Hawking points in the CMB Sky
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2018Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky
- Aug 2018Possible evidence of black holes from a different universe
- Jan 2019An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
- Oct 2020An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
- Aug 2022We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
- 555
Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2013Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
- Mar 2016Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time (2001)
- Feb 2008Smoothed Analysis: Why The Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time.
- Jan 2011The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
- Jun 2016Linear Programming: How Does It Work?
- Jun 2022The Simplex Solution: Why it works so well
- Nov 2024Suits, money laundering, and linear programming
- 556
Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithms can Inform Understanding and Reduce the Spread of Misinformation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Algorithms to Understand and Reduce Misinformation
- Oct 2022Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithm-Powered Misinfo Annotations
- Nov 2022White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note
- Feb 2023The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research from Elon Musk
- Feb 2024Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)
- Jan 2025Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
- 557
Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones
Hacker News threads
- 558
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
- 559
TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine
- Feb 2025TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines (2018)
- Jul 2018Replacing Linux with a Database System
- Dec 2018Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
- Mar 2020Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
- Nov 2025Imperative to Relational
- 560
Highway Networks
Hacker News threads
- 561
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development
- Jan 2026Way AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
- Feb 2026Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
- May 2026The AI Elephant in the Room
- Jun 2026Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
- 562
Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
- Oct 2023Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
- Oct 2023Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
- Dec 2023GM Dealer Chat Bot Agrees to Sell 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1
- Mar 2024Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm
- May 2026No Slop Grenade
- Jun 2026The US lifts its block on Mythos 5
- 563
Mixed Precision Training
Hacker News threads
- 564
A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
- Mar 2018A high-bias, low-variance intro to ML for physicists
- Aug 2022A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists (2019)
- Apr 2018Boltzmann Encoded Adversarial Machines
- Jul 2018TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning
- Aug 2018A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
- Jun 2023Data-Driven Science and Engineering 2nd Edition [pdf]
- 565
AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Scratch
- May 2020Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Primitive Mathematical Operations
- Apr 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Scratch
- Mar 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch
- Apr 2020Google Engineers Mutate AI to Make Systems Evolve Faster Than We Can Code Them
- May 2020Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]
- Jul 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns
- 566
Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Sep 2020Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess with AlphaZero
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Dec 2020Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
- Aug 2021Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Jan 2024I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
- 567
Physics of Language Models: Part 3.3, Knowledge Capacity Scaling Laws
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Physics of Language Models: Part 3.3, Knowledge Capacity Scaling Laws
- Jun 2024Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy needed to power a lightbulb
- Jan 2025Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
- Jun 2025Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
- Oct 2025How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge infusion scaling law for LLMs
- 568
Going Deeper with Convolutions
Hacker News threads
- 569
RAISR: Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution
Hacker News threads
- 570
Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation
Hacker News threads
- 571
Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Jun 2021DeDLOC – Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Dec 2023Is there a SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?
- Jan 2024Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Crowdsourced AI Training?
- 572
Not what you've signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Getting more than what you've asked for: The Next Stage of Prompt Engineering
- Feb 2023Novel Prompt Injection Threats to Application-Integrated Large Language Models
- Feb 2023Comprehensive Analysis of Prompt Injection Threats to Large Language Models
- Mar 2023Show HN: ChatGPT Plugins are a security nightmare
- Dec 2023Purple Llama by Meta AI
- Mar 2024Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing
- Oct 2025NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
- 573
Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2016Visualizing and understanding recurrent networks
- Jun 2015Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
- Jul 2017Interpreting neurons in an LSTM network
- Jul 2019Show HN: Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning
- Jan 2021Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”
- Feb 2024Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
- 574
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
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Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
- Sep 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
- Dec 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values [pdf]
- Dec 2019Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
- Aug 2020Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
- Jun 2022Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)
- Oct 2026Collatz Conjecture
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