Hacker Papers

1. 651
   

   Recurrent Relational Networks

   Rasmus Berg Palm et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
   • Feb 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
   • Jul 2023Code Interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week

   arXiv ↗
2. 652
   

   A Multi-Horizon Quantile Recurrent Forecaster

   Ruofeng Wen et al. · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2019Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?
   • Jul 2021Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
   • Dec 2022Statistical vs. Deep Learning forecasting methods

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3. 653
   

   Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs

   Timur Garipov et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2023Knowledge Is a Region in Weight Space for Fine-Tuned Language Models
   • Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
   • Jun 2026Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

   arXiv ↗
4. 654
   

   Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games

   Rachit Dubey et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2019Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test
   • May 2020Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
   • Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model

   arXiv ↗
5. 655
   

   MOSQUITO: Covert Ultrasonic Transmissions between Two Air-Gapped Computers using Speaker-to-Speaker Communication

   Mordechai Guri et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2019US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds
   • Apr 2023HN thread 35355540
   • Jul 2025AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

   arXiv ↗
6. 656
   

   WhoTracks .Me: Shedding light on the opaque world of online tracking

   Arjaldo Karaj et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2018Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking
   • Dec 2019A New Search Engine
   • Jul 2023Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

   arXiv ↗
7. 657
   

   ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture; increasing shape bias improves accuracy and robustness

   Robert Geirhos et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
   • Feb 2021What Inception Net Doesn't See
   • May 2024AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)

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8. 658
   

   Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems

   Maxim Naumov et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
   • Mar 2024Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
   • Mar 2025Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

   arXiv ↗
9. 659
   

   A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox

   Kok-Wei Bong et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2020Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
   • Dec 2021Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?
   • Jul 2024Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality

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10. 660
    

    Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

    Austin Hounsel et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
    • Dec 2025RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016)
    • Mar 2026Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

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11. 661
    

    Attention is not not Explanation

    Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
    • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
    • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

    arXiv ↗
12. 662
    

    KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning

    Tarin Clanuwat et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2019Machine Learning Can Help Unlock the World of Ancient Japan
    • Dec 2025The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition
    • Apr 2026Hokusai and Tesselations

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13. 663
    

    Failure of Normalization in Impredicative Type Theory with Proof-Irrelevant Propositional Equality

    Andreas Abel, Thierry Coquand · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2020Coq is a Lean Typechecker
    • Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
    • Jun 2026Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

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14. 664
    

    Array Languages Make Neural Networks Fast

    Artjoms Šinkarovs et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
    • Mar 2023HN thread 34978026
    • Jun 2024Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license

    arXiv ↗
15. 665
    

    OTEANN: Estimating the Transparency of Orthographies with an Artificial Neural Network

    Xavier Marjou · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2020What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)
    • May 2023Deseret Alphabet
    • Jul 2025Why English doesn't use accents
    • Jul 2025Why English doesn't use accents

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16. 666
    

    Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers

    Ali Hassani et al. · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
    • Dec 2023Deep Dive into the Vision Transformers Paper (ViT)
    • Jul 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

    arXiv ↗
17. 667
    

    TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

    Stephanie Lin et al. · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2021Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
    • Feb 2023ArxivGPT: Chrome extension that summarizes arxived research papers using ChatGPT
    • Aug 2026If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast

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18. 668
    

    Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces

    Albert Gu et al. · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2023Ask HN: Transformer alternatives that could have emergent properties when scaled
    • Feb 2024A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
    • Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention

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19. 669
    

    Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives

    Erik W. Lentz · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
    • Oct 2023Supernova in 1006
    • Jun 2024A Study Says Warp Drives Might Be Real–and We'll Find Them with Lasers

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20. 670
    

    Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

    Xuezhi Wang et al. · 2022

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2022GPT-3 can run code
    • Sep 2023A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge
    • Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

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21. 671
    

    Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

    Jean-Baptiste Alayrac et al. · 2022

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2022DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
    • Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
    • Oct 2025OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series

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22. 672
    

    Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

    Rajeev Acharya et al. · 2022

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2022A bird's-eye view of quantum error correction and fault tolerance
    • Dec 2023IBM releases first-ever 1k-qubit quantum chip
    • Apr 2026Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]

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23. 673
    

    Game-theoretic statistics and safe anytime-valid inference

    Aaditya Ramdas et al. · 2022

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2023Annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know
    • Aug 2024Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing
    • Jan 2025Lies. Damned Lies. P-value thresholds

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24. 674
    

    G-Eval: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment

    Yang Liu et al. · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
    • Dec 2024Garvata: Observability and Debugging for AI Agent Stack
    • May 2025Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

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25. 675
    

    Efficient Guided Generation for Large Language Models

    Brandon T. Willard, Rémi Louf · 2023

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2023Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
    • May 2024Mistral Fine-Tune
    • Jan 2026LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

    arXiv ↗

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