Hacker Papers
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Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets [pdf]
- Feb 2018Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
- Jan 2019An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Feb 2024Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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Mission to the Gravitational Focus of the Sun: A Critical Analysis
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Interstellar Communication via Gravitational Lens
- Aug 2017Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
- Feb 2018Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens
- Jul 2019Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA
- Apr 2023Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
- Aug 2024The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
- Oct 2024First images from Euclid are in
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Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
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Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2024Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019)
- Oct 2019Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Feb 2020T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
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Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
- Jul 2016Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
- Nov 2017Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
- Dec 2019DeepSpeech 0.6
- Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Aug 2023Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
- Dec 2025Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
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Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
- Dec 2016Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
- Dec 2016Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Oct 2017A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Dec 2018Why Robot Brains Need Symbols
- Jul 2019Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
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A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
- Dec 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
- Dec 2019A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula [pdf]
- Dec 2019A new way to make quadratic equations easy
- Nov 2021A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
- Nov 2021A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
- Mar 2022Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages
- Oct 2022Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes
- Apr 2024The Stacks Project: A Wikipedia of algebraic geometry (2022)
- May 2026The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
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Deep Neural Networks as Gaussian Processes
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Using Self-Organizing Maps to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
- Jul 2018Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010)
- Jan 2020U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Jun 2023Any Deep ReLU Network Is Shallow
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
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Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2017Densely Connected Convolutional Networks: CVPR 2017 Best Paper Award Winner
- Feb 2017Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
- Jul 2017Best paper award CVPR 2017 DenseNets
- Nov 2016MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Jun 2021Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
- Dec 2021DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
- Mar 2024DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers
- Sep 2025Automatic differentiation can be incorrect
- 60
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2018Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
- Jul 2018Evolving Floorplans
- Mar 2019Ask HN: Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?
- Oct 2019The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- Sep 2026We must pace the frontier
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An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Oct 2021An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2026An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (2018)
- Oct 2018Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
- Nov 2018Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
- Jun 2019A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
- Dec 2020Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
- Mar 2022Probabilistic Models of Cognition
- Aug 2023A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
- 62
Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Nov 2023Struggles with the Continuum
- Jan 2024Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Jul 2026How real are real numbers? (2004)
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Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2021Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
- Sep 2024Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
- May 2020Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second [pdf]
- Mar 2019An Intel Programmer Jumps over Wall: First Impressions of ARM SIMD Programming
- Jul 2019How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
- Oct 2021Word-Aligned Bloom Filters
- Mar 20241BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
- Aug 2025Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
- Sep 2026Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm
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Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
- Jul 2021Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions [pdf]
- Dec 2016Don’t assume that safety comes for free: a Swift case study
- May 2018Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
- Jun 2019Abusing the CPU's Adder Circuits
- Sep 2019Popcount CPU instruction
- Jun 2021The NSA Instruction (2019)
- Sep 2022Intel Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library
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Automatic chemical design using a data-driven continuous representation of molecules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Automatic chemical design using deep neural networks
- Oct 2016Deep learning can debug biology
- Oct 2016Keras-based molecular autoencoder
- Oct 2016Keras-based molecular autoencoder
- Jan 2017Applying deep adversarial autoencoders for new molecule development in oncology
- Jun 2021Chemical space is really big (2014)
- Jul 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Nov 2025Parsing Chemistry
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Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type [a Password,] Acoustic Eavesdropping in VOIP
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type—Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP [pdf]
- Oct 2016Don't Skype and Type Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
- Sep 2018How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
- Aug 2019Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
- Apr 2020When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
- Aug 2022Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio
- Dec 2023Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
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Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians
Hacker News threads
- 68
The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Jun 2020Using machine learning to classify story arcs into six basic shapes
- Mar 2018The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Aug 2016Text Summarization with TensorFlow
- Oct 2018Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types
- Jan 2019At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)
- Aug 2020The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters
- Nov 2023Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots
- 69
AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining
Hacker News threads
- 70
A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
- Jan 2021Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
- Nov 2022Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software
- Jun 2023Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
- Feb 2024A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
- Jun 2026Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts
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Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules by Sabour, Frosst, Geoffrey E Hinton (CapsNet))
- Nov 2017Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Hinton's 'Capsule Networks' Unveiled
- Nov 2017Google A.I. researchers develop alternative architecture for neural networks
- Nov 2017A Year in Computer Vision
- Dec 2017Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
- Feb 2018Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"
- Jun 2019Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2016Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2019Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
- Sep 2016Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
- Oct 2016[MIT Lecture] Connections between physics and deep learning
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- May 2017Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Oct 2018How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
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Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
- Sep 2016Google's Neural Machine Translation: Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines
- Sep 2016Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
- Oct 2016Learning Reinforcement Learning, with Code, Exercises, and Solutions
- Nov 2016Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
- Feb 2017Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
- Mar 2018Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Dec 2018Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
- Jan 2019Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2
- Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
- Mar 2019‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
- Sep 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2024Where is Noether's principle in machine learning?
- Mar 2024On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
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RL$^2$: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2017Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- Feb 2023What were the 40 research papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
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