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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Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit
Hacker News threads
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Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)
- May 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text
- Nov 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text [pdf]
- Jul 2020An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
- Jul 2020CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
- Aug 2020Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Mar 2026A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control
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FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
Hacker News threads
- May 2024FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms (2021)
- May 2021FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
- May 2021FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing
- May 2021An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
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Neural Networks are Decision Trees
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Oct 2022Neural Networks Are Decision Trees
- Feb 2023Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
- Jun 202420x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU
- Mar 2026Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
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Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning
Hacker News threads
- 57
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jun 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jul 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Apr 2022The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best
- Nov 2023Understanding Deep Learning
- 58
Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 59
Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Monolith: Real time recommendation system with collisionless embedding table
- Nov 2022TikTok published an article on their recommendation system architecture
- Nov 2022Paper on 'Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System' by Bytedance Inc (TikTok)
- Dec 2022TikTok’s Secret Sauce
- Jan 2023Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?
- Feb 2023The secret sauce of TikTok’s recommendations
- Nov 2023X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
- Dec 2024TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
- Jan 2025TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
- May 2025You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer
- Feb 2026TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
- 60
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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DensePose From WiFi
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023DensePose from WiFi
- Jan 2023DensePose from WiFi Sensing: Full Body Tracking
- Jan 2023Accurate Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals and ML
- Jan 2023Accurate Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals
- Jan 2023WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What will be the first AI “incident”?
- Jul 2023French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics
- Sep 2023WiFi can read through walls
- May 2024Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 via IEEE 802.11bf standard
- Apr 2025BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
- Feb 2026WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
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Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers
- Mar 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers (2021)
- Mar 2021Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
- Aug 2021Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
- Apr 2023Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers
- Feb 2026Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers
- 63
Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero [pdf]
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Dec 2021Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Feb 2026Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
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Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Faster Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Jan 2023What a transformer can NOT do
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Jun 2024Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
- Jul 2024My Python code is a neural network
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Feb 2026Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
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Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Sep 2022A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
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Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners: Let's think step by step
- May 2022Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Reasoners
- Jun 2022LaMDA is not sentient
- Feb 2023Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Jul 2023What we learned from using GPT for 500k+ classifications
- Oct 2023Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens
- Jul 2024Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency
- Mar 2025ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving
- Jan 2026LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
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Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
- Jun 2024Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than XOR filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- Sep 2024When Bloom filters don't bloom (2020)
- May 2025Bloom Filters
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Hopfield Networks is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020)
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2021Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Is GitHub Copilot / IntelliCode Legal?
- Sep 2022Transformers seem to mimic parts of the brain
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Short-term Hebbian learning can implement transformer-like attention
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 69
High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2022Build Your Own Imagen Text-to-Image Model
- Sep 2022Stable Diffusion forming images from text: image snapshots at each step
- Sep 2022A Web UI for Stable Diffusion
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
- Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
- Feb 2024The VAE Used for Stable Diffusion Is Flawed
- Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Dec 2025Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun
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Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
Hacker News threads
- 71
Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Feb 2024A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
- Jul 2024XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
- Jun 2025Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers
- Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer
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CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers
Hacker News threads
- 73
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)
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PAL: Program-aided Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 75
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
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