Hacker Papers
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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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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
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One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Nov 2017New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Oct 2018What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
- Jun 2019Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
- May 2023Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
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Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
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Attention is not not Explanation
Hacker News threads
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Universal Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
- Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
- Aug 2025The Drivers of HRM's Performance on Arc-AGI
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
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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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Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from (Speakerless) Air-Gapped Computers
Hacker News threads
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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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Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
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Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: An Introduction
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI
- Jan 2021Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: An Introduction
- Dec 2023Behavior trees in robotics and AI: An Introduction [book]
- Mar 2021FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create
- Apr 2024Survey Study on AI Agent Architectures (2024)
- Nov 2025Creating Rimworld Mods to Add LLM PCG and LLM NPCs to Enhance Its RPG Elements
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TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine
- Feb 2025TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines (2018)
- Jul 2018Replacing Linux with a Database System
- Dec 2018Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
- Mar 2020Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
- Nov 2025Imperative to Relational
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Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- 64
A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics
Hacker News threads
- 65
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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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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On Large-Batch Training for Deep Learning: Generalization Gap and Sharp Minima
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Mar 2017Why is so much memory needed for deep neural networks?
- Jun 2017Facebook Trains ImageNet in 1 Hour
- Dec 2017An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)
- Dec 2017Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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Document Embedding with Paragraph Vectors
Hacker News threads
- 69
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Jul 2020You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Mar 2016Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
- Apr 2019YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Oct 2025Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
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Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Feb 2020JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
- Jun 2020Image GPT
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Oct 2024Faster convergence for diffusion models
- Oct 2025Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
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Insecure Until Proven Updated: Analyzing AMD SEV's Remote Attestation
Hacker News threads
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Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering, Using Deep Learning
- Feb 2015Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks [pdf]
- Mar 2015Facebook's Memory Networks Demo
- Mar 2015By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
- Jun 2015Hound voice search NLP demo [video]
- Aug 2015Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
- Sep 2015Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
- Jun 2016DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
- Oct 2025A History of Large Language Models
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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
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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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Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2023Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model (2019)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Nov 2019AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
- Aug 2020AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
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