Hacker Papers
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The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (2023)
- Mar 2023The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
- Jun 2024The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
- Jun 2023Measuring the productivity impact of generative AI
- Aug 2025AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder
- Aug 2025I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
- Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs
- 52
How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
Hacker News threads
- 53
ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
- Oct 2023ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
- Oct 2023ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale
- Mar 2024The Google employees who created transformers
- Apr 2024Vision Transformers Are Overrated
- Apr 2024Vision Transformers Are Overrated
- Sep 2025Automatic differentiation can be incorrect
- Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer
- 54
In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors
Hacker News threads
- 55
GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark
Hacker News threads
- 56
Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
- Dec 2023Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
- Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
- Mar 2024Four new models that are benchmarking near or above GPT-4
- Apr 2024Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
- May 2024Gemini Nano coming built in to Chrome 126, powered by WebGPU
- Dec 2025Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
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Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
- Nov 2023Extracting Training Data from LLMs
- Nov 2023Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models
- Dec 2023Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Feb 2024Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
- Oct 2025What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
- Nov 2025The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
- 58
Simple and Controllable Music Generation
Hacker News threads
- 59
MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Megabyte: Predicting Million-Byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers
- May 2023Megabyte: Predicting Million-Byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers
- May 2023Meta AI Megabyte: Predicting Million-Byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers
- May 2023Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Revolutionary Scalable Model Architecture
- Jun 2023Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly on File Bytes
- Jun 2023Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”
- Feb 2024LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
- Oct 2025Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
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Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
- Jun 2023Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
- Jun 2023Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
- Jun 2023Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”
- Jun 2023Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Jan 2024Chess-GPT's Internal World Model
- Jan 2024New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- Feb 2025Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
- Oct 2025OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
- 61
QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Feb 2024How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Sep 2024QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Mar 2025HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
- Aug 2025Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
- Aug 2025The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
- Oct 2025HTTP3 Explained
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Think before you speak: Training Language Models With Pause Tokens
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens
- Oct 2023Want to get started with LLMs? Here's what you need to know
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
- Mar 2024Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI
- Apr 2024Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead
- Jul 2024The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Claude 4
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
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SequenceMatch: Imitation Learning for Autoregressive Sequence Modelling with Backtracking
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token
- Jun 2023LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
- Jun 2024AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Aug 2025Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
- Sep 2025The wall confronting large language models
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
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Not what you've signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Getting more than what you've asked for: The Next Stage of Prompt Engineering
- Feb 2023Novel Prompt Injection Threats to Application-Integrated Large Language Models
- Feb 2023Comprehensive Analysis of Prompt Injection Threats to Large Language Models
- Mar 2023Show HN: ChatGPT Plugins are a security nightmare
- Dec 2023Purple Llama by Meta AI
- Mar 2024Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing
- Oct 2025NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
- 65
Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting
Hacker News threads
- 66
Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Pretraining on test set is all you need
- Feb 2025Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
- Oct 2023AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
- Nov 2023Grok
- Mar 2024Claude 3 model family
- Apr 2024The "it" in AI models is the dataset
- Jun 2024Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Jul 2024Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- Feb 2025Grok3 Launch [video]
- 67
Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on LLM
- Jul 2023Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
- Aug 2023Destroy Humanity Tutorial (ChatGPT Jailbreak)
- Dec 2023Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
- Jan 2024Attacks on machine learning models
- Aug 2025Prompting by Activation Maximization
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Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Dec 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
- Dec 2023Mamba outperforms transformers "everywhere we tried"
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Feb 2024Mamba: The Easy Way
- Mar 2024Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data
- Jun 2024A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba
- Jul 2024Codestral Mamba
- Aug 2025GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text
- Dec 2023BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text
- Dec 2023BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text
- Jun 2024Human neuroscience mustn't forget its human dimension
- May 2025Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
- Aug 2025Scientists shine a laser through a human head
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The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in How LLMs Represent Truth
- Oct 2023"Hallucinating" AIs Sound Creative, but Let's Not Celebrate Being Wrong
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What is your standard for judging when AGI exists?
- Nov 2023Rats have an imagination, new research suggests
- Nov 2023HN thread 38355930
- May 2024Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Sep 2024AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
- Sep 2024GPTs and Hallucination
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
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Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- Jun 2023Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- Jun 2023Stochastic Parrot
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- 72
MusicLM: Generating Music From Text
Hacker News threads
- 73
Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
- Jan 2023Stable Diffusion Memorizes Training Points
- Feb 2023The AI Crowd Is Mad
- Feb 2023An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit
- Mar 2023Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive data
- Apr 2023Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs
- Jun 2023Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
- Nov 2023Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Jul 2025Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
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Shor's Algorithm Does Not Factor Large Integers in the Presence of Noise
Hacker News threads
- 75
Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Feb 2025Mercury Coder: frontier diffusion LLM generating 1000+ tok/sec on commodity GPUs
- Mar 2025First large diffusion-based LLM
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Jul 2025Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
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