Hacker Papers
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Expanding Confusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2011Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating
- Jul 2012How big is the entire universe?
- Aug 2015Olbers' paradox
- Aug 2018Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered
- Jun 202012 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
- Aug 2023Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified
- Dec 2023Astronomers posit that we live in a giant void
- Apr 2024Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
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No need for conspiracy: Self-organized cartel formation in a modified trust game
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2012Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists
- Mar 2014How are cold-calling ceasefires illegal?
- Feb 2015The Billion Dollar Startup Club
- Jul 2015Airbnb, My $1B Lesson
- Jan 2016Economics Simulation
- Aug 2017Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
- Mar 2021U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes
- Aug 2024San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents
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How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset (PDF)
- Oct 2008"Anonymous" Facebook Dataset Is Identified as Harvard Students
- Jan 2011$3 million machine learning prize
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Dec 2017Netflix tweet raises privacy questions
- Jul 2023California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
- Sep 2025Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
- Apr 2026It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Apr 2026Show HN: I'm tracking 197 known exposures of health data from UK Biobank
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A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
- Aug 2015
- Sep 2015Algorithm can create new Van Gogh or Picasso in an hour
- Feb 2016Visual Turing Test
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Sep 2016Implementation of Neural Style Transfer in Python and Keras
- Mar 2017Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
- Nov 2017Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice
- Apr 2023Study: ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patients
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The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
- May 2021The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
- Jul 2023The Pile: a dataset for language modeling [pdf]
- Mar 2021The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3
- Apr 2022Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API
- Jan 2023The Limits of GPT-3 and Similar Large Language Models
- Apr 2023RedPajama: Reproduction of Llama with Friendly License (Stanford, MILA Quebec)
- Jul 2023Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
- Sep 2023What OpenAI Really Wants
- Mar 2024DBRX: A new open LLM
- Apr 2026Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
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The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018When algorithms surprise us
- Mar 2018Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation
- Mar 2018The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: Artifical Life and EC Anecdotes
- Mar 2018Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
- Jun 2018Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?
- Nov 2018Evolved antenna
- Apr 2019Notes on AI Bias
- Mar 2021Lying to the Ghost in the Machine
- Jun 2021One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- Jun 2023Own-Goal Football (2022)
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An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022An Image Is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
- Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
- Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
- Jun 2023What Is a Transformer Model?
- Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
- Oct 2024Show HN: Doctly AI – Accurate AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Parser
- Jul 2025Baba Is Eval
- Sep 2026Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
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Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy [pdf]
- May 2019ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]
- Feb 2021Consensus Is Harder Than It Looks (2020)
- Apr 2023Transactions Aren't Everything
- Nov 2023Wrangling Monotonic Systems in TLA+
- Jan 2024RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
- Sep 2024Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2025Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs
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Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Nov 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Dec 2021Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
- May 2022The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
- Oct 2023The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Mar 2024Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why
- Oct 2024GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
- Feb 2026GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
- Oct 2026“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
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Modular implicits
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Modular implicits for ad-hoc polymorphism in OCaml
- Mar 2016An OCaml manifesto – Problems and what's needed for widespread adoption
- Apr 2016OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda)
- Apr 2016OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda)
- Jun 2018Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
- Sep 2019A look back on OCaml since 2011
- Aug 2021Functional Programming in OCaml
- Dec 2021One Reason Typeclasses Are Useful
- Aug 2025OCaml as my primary language
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In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
- May 2017Dave Patterson: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit
- Jun 2017The Age of Nvidia
- Aug 2017Google TPU Performance Analysis
- Feb 2018Cloud TPUs in Beta
- Apr 2019Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
- Feb 2023Introduction to FPGAs
- Oct 2024Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
- Apr 2025Google is winning on every AI front
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DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake-sleep Bayesian program learning
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023DreamCoder: Growing Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge
- Jun 2020DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with program learning
- Feb 2021DreamCoder, a system that learns to solve problems by writing programs
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- May 2021Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning
- Nov 2021GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town
- Feb 2022Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
- Feb 2022Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
- Jul 2022AI Coding with CodeRL: Toward Mastering Program Synthesis with Deep RL
- Sep 2023Doug Lenat has died
- May 2026Language Models Need Sleep
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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 genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits [pdf]
- Mar 2017On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits
- Oct 2014Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming
- Nov 2015Increased intelligence is a myth so far (2014)
- Dec 2015The cult of genius?
- Apr 2016This is for PZ Myers
- Mar 2017Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA
- May 2017Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
- Jul 2017China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)
- Jul 2020Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]
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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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One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2014One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
- Apr 2014Data Scientist Interviews
- Aug 2014ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition
- Nov 2015TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- May 2016NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
- Jul 2016Nvidia CEO Reveals New TITAN X at Stanford Deep Learning Meetup
- Feb 2020Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
- Jun 2022Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks
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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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Thinking Like Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Thinking Like Transformers
- Jun 2023Thinking Like Transformers (pdf)
- Dec 2021The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning
- May 2023It's not just statistics: GPT-4 does reason
- Jun 2023From Word Models to World Models
- Aug 2023Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Feb 2026I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
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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
- 70
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2013The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
- Apr 2015Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
- Apr 2016Interview with Scott Aaronson
- Sep 2017Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"
- Jul 2019Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (2017)
- Mar 2023Not by AI
- Mar 2023A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Jul 2024A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications
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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
- Oct 2018Neuroscientist found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
- Dec 2021Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed
- Feb 2022Google Search Is Dying
- Nov 2022Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
- May 2023Reddit comments and submissions from 2005-06 to 2022-12 collected by Pushshift
- Dec 2023At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
- Aug 2024Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
- 72
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2016New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything
- Oct 2017The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Jun 2026Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
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Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity,
- Aug 2019Driven by Compression Progress (Schmidhuber, 2008)
- Apr 2023Driven By Compression Progress (2008)
- Sep 2017Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
- Oct 2017Intelligence Reconsidered
- Mar 2021Information Is Surprise (2015)
- Mar 2021Hutter Prize
- Jul 2024Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- Sep 2026Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
- 74
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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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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