Hacker Papers
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Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Show Your Work: Scratchpads For Intermediate Computation With Language Models
- Feb 2022AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Mar 2023ChatGPT has trouble giving an answer before explaining its reasoning
- Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
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On the design of text editors
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024On the design of text editors (2020)
- Mar 2022On the Design of Text Editors
- Dec 2020On the Design of Text Editors
- Mar 2022Apple Mac Studio
- Jul 2023Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
- Apr 2024Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
- Oct 2025Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
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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
- 54
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
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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?
- 56
Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Will we run out of data to train LLMs?
- Nov 2022We might run out of language data to train ML models soon [pdf]
- Dec 2022An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning
- Dec 2022Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
- Dec 2023Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
- Sep 2025Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 57
Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs
Hacker News threads
- 58
Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Emergent World Representations in Neural Networks
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023GPT-4
- Mar 2023HN thread 35348353
- Apr 2023HN thread 35356648
- May 2023Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
- Jun 2024Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
- Apr 2026Where the Goblins Came From
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
- Mar 2021Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
- Jan 2023Wolfram Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
- May 2023Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Around 75,000 Words
- Jun 2023Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
- Aug 2023GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi
- Aug 2023How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai
- Jul 2026We taught a small LLM to throw away 68% of our RAG context
- 60
Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) for Precise Zero-Shot Retrieval [pdf]
- Aug 2026Hypothetical Document Embeddings
- Jan 2023Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval Without Relevance Labels
- Jan 2023How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette
- Feb 2023I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation
- Mar 2023
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Dec 2023Build a search engine, not a vector DB
- May 2024Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
- Sep 2024Contextual Retrieval
- Aug 2026Don't classify, hallucinate!
- 61
Formal Algorithms for Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Formal Algorithms for Transformers
- Jan 2023The Transformer Family
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
- May 2023Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- Jan 2024Relearning math as an adult
- Jun 2026Can I Buy Your KV Cache?
- 62
Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022WebGPT: Browser-assisted question-answering with human feedback
- Feb 2022AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
- Jul 2022RETRO is fast
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Dec 2022How Does GPT Obtain Its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models
- Jan 2023Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy [DeepMind, 2022]
- May 2023PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
- Nov 2024LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns
- 63
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Aug 2021Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (2020)
- Sep 2024Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails [pdf]
- Feb 2020Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
- Mar 2020Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
- Mar 2020Black Swan Events
- Apr 2020New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
- Oct 2020The Three Sides of Risk
- Oct 2020Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
- Jul 2023It Takes Long to Become Gaussian
- May 2024Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
- 64
LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Aug 2022LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Sep 2022Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
- Feb 2023How to Train Large Models on Many GPUs?
- Mar 2023Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
- Apr 2023Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
- May 2023Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- Jul 2023Transformer Attention is off by one
- Jun 2024Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
- 65
On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2022On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data
- Jun 2024The Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data (2022)
- Jul 2023On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data
- Dec 2022Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It
- Feb 2023Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
- Mar 2023Understanding ChatGPT
- Mar 2023HN thread 35320870
- Jul 2023PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
- Sep 2023Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
- Oct 2024DeepSeek: Advancing theorem proving in LLMs through large-scale synthetic data
- 66
STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning
Hacker News threads
- 67
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
- Sep 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Jul 2021Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Aug 2021Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?
- Jan 2022Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
- Apr 2022The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
- May 2022Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
- May 2023How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From The 80s Took Over Crypto
- 68
Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Modes and Neural Representations of the Hippocampal
- May 2022Relating transformers to neural representations of hippocampal formation
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Neural Representations of the Hippocampal Formation
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How to get back into AI?
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- Sep 2024Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- 69
Introducing Physical Warp Drives
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Dec 2025Introducing Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Mar 2021Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
- Mar 2021Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
- Mar 2021A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
- May 2021Physical Warp Drives
- Dec 2021Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
- Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
- Jul 2024New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021)
- 70
Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Logic Gate Simulator
- Dec 2023Transformers on Chips
- Sep 2024GSoC'24: Differentiable Logic for Interactive Systems and Generative Music
- May 2025Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
- May 2025Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
- Nov 2025Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]
- Nov 2025TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
- 71
Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Model with Self Generated Instructions
- Mar 2023The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600
- Mar 2023Show HN: Finetune LLaMA-7B on commodity GPUs using your own text
- May 2023LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Dec 2024The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
- Jan 2025AI Engineer Reading List
- 72
Deduplicating Training Data Makes Language Models Better
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
- Aug 2022Chinchilla's Wild Implications
- Aug 2022Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
- Nov 2022Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Copilot class action?
- Jun 2024Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl
- Jan 202530% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
- 73
Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2020At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold
- Sep 2020The Collatz Conjecture: the simple math problem we still can’t solve
- Nov 2020AI Expert Roadmap
- Jan 2021DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
- Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
- Jul 2024AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
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Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop along Arbitrary Computation Graphs
Hacker News threads
- May 2021Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (2020)
- Feb 2021Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
- Apr 2021Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors
- Apr 2021The Fourier transform is a neural network
- Jun 2023Artificial brains help understand real brains
- Sep 2023What Is an Emotion? William James’s Theory of How Our Bodies Affect Our Feelings
- May 2024Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress – Mark Zuckerberg [video]
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Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Improving Text Rendering in Image Generation Models
- Dec 2022What ChatGPT Can't Do
- Feb 2023Illusion Diffusion: Optical Illusions Using Stable Diffusion
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
- Oct 2023DALL-E 3: Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
- Mar 2024Ask HN: Why can't image generation models spell?
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