Hacker Papers
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Attention Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Deep Neural Networks – Attention is all you need (No recurrence or convolutions)
- Jun 2017Attention Is All You Need (Neural Networks)
- Jun 2025Attention Is All You Need
- Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
- Apr 2020Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- May 2023Why the Original Transformer LLM Figure Is Wrong, and Other Interesting Tidbits
- Dec 2023Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
- Jan 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- Mar 2026Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
- Sep 2026The AI Race Just Got Awkward
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Dancing links
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Don Knuth: Dancing Links
- May 2009Dancing links, by Knuth
- Aug 2013Knuth's Dancing Links Algorithm
- Feb 2013All N-Rooks algorithm and a linear time N-Queens solution
- Jan 2015The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp
- Dec 2017Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
- Sep 2019Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)
- Jan 2021 Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
- Nov 2022In defense of linked lists
- Sep 2025Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell
- Sep 2026Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
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Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
- Aug 2023Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Oct 2023Why Generative AI Is Currently Doomed
- Apr 2024Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
- Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
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Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Jan 2026Repeating your prompt twice before sending it to an LLM improves accuracy
- Mar 2026Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs
- Feb 2026"Car Wash" test with 53 models
- Mar 2026Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Mar 2026LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
- Mar 2026Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Sep 2026Lichen – A local, BOY model system1 (Jev) server with image support
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Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
- Sep 2023Chinchilla’s Death
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Aug 2024IsoFLOP curves of large language models are flat
- Jan 2025FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 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
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TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)
- May 2023TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
- May 2023How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
- May 2023Apple bans ChatGPT use by employees, report says
- Jun 2023Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Oct 2023Disney Packed Big Emotion into a Little Robot
- Jan 2024Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
- May 2024“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
- Nov 2025Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Sep 2026MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
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Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
- Feb 2026Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? (2023)
- May 2023Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage', Stanford Study Says
- Jun 2023OpenLLaMA 13B Released
- Dec 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
- Apr 2024Choose your weapon: Survival strategies for depressed AI academics
- May 2025Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
- Mar 2026Are LLMs not getting better?
- Sep 2026AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
- 59
How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
- Jul 2023(Databricks cofounder) How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
- Jul 2023How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?
- Jul 2023GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better
- Aug 2023Why is OpenAI making ChatGPT increasingly dumber? What's the motivation?
- Aug 2023Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use
- Aug 2023Show HN: Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
- Sep 2023Study shows over time, ChatGPT lost accuracy
- Mar 2024DBRX: A new open LLM
- Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
- Sep 2026Ember-1
- 60
Extracting books from production language models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models
- Jan 2026Extracting books from production language models (2026)
- Jan 2026Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive to Access Books
- Feb 2026We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
- Feb 2026Microsoft offers guide to pirating Harry Potter series for LLM training
- Mar 2026Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
- Mar 2026FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
- Jun 2026Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?
- Jul 2026Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
- Sep 2026When did Google get so weird?
- 61
DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Aug 2021DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Jul 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Sep 2022DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
- Dec 2023Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
- Oct 2025Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
- Sep 2026Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
- 62
The World as a Hologram
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2026The World as a Hologram
- Jun 2018The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
- Sep 2019Simulation of what a massive black hole would look like
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- Sep 2026Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- 63
AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Go is the best language for agents
- Apr 2026Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- Jul 2026How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
- Jul 2026Elixir-lang.org has a new design
- Sep 2026Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
- 64
Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll
- Mar 2026AI compromised sandbox to mine crypto without prompting on its own initiative
- Mar 2026Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
- Mar 2026Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
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Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023RLFH Alternative Direct Preference Optimization
- May 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jan 2024Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
- Aug 2025Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF
- Jun 2026I design with Claude more than Figma now
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
- 66
Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Meta Learning Backpropagation and Improving It (2020)
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Sep 2023HN thread 37367951
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Oct 2023Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Feb 2024Neural Network Diffusion
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 67
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Aug 2026Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Apr 2025Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
- Aug 2025Do we understand how neural networks work?
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 68
Locally Typical Sampling
Hacker News threads
- 69
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback [pdf]
- Dec 2022Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Apr 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Jan 2023Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- May 2023Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Jun 2024Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- Sep 2026I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
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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
- 71
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- Sep 2026The Millennium Problems for Biology
- 72
LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
- Sep 2024LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
- Sep 2024I no longer use AI assistant
- Oct 2024Announcing the Tech for Palestine Incubator
- Oct 2024Show HN: Last CLI tool you will need
- Oct 2024LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
- Jun 2025O3 Turns Pro
- Sep 2026How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
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A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Aug 2014A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
- Mar 2019A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
- Jun 2017When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing
- Oct 2021Consistent Hashing for Dummies
- Mar 2022S2: Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere
- May 2024Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)
- Sep 2026Saving another 100TB of RAM
- 74
AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
- Dec 2020Exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi [pdf]
- Sep 2026Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers (2020)
- Dec 2020Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems
- Nov 2023Chinese spies had acces to Dutch chip maker NXP's systems for over two years
- Jan 2026Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Networks
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LiCoEval: Evaluating LLMs on License Compliance in Code Generation
Hacker News threads
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