Hacker Papers
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Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
- Nov 2016Facebook is harming our democracy
- Nov 2016A machine learning approach to identifying thought markers of suicidal subjects
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Apr 2017Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence criminals
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Jun 2018AI at Google: our principles
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Jun 2024Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
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Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Deep Unsupervised Learning Using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [pdf]
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
- Feb 2024Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
- May 2024Diffusion Models
- Sep 2024Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
- Sep 2024Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
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SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
- Mar 2019In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Slide: In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Deep Learning Breakthrough Sees One Xeon Destroying 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
- Dec 2020Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Aug 2021pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
- Oct 2021New features coming in Julia 1.7
- Feb 2022Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
- Feb 2025(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Aug 2021What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Sep 2023What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Oct 2019Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
- Jul 2020What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Sep 2020A Black Hole at the Center of Earth
- Mar 2021The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9
- Apr 2024New evidence found for Planet 9
- May 2024Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
- May 2025Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
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Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
- Nov 2015Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
- Nov 2015Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client [pdf]
- May 2017NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
- Nov 2018Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?
- Jan 2020Doug Tygar, author of Why Johnny Can't Encrypt, has died
- Nov 2021My WhatsApp Security code changed, with no login or logout
- Dec 2021Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
- Mar 2024Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
- Apr 2024Why can't my mom email me?
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The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
- Feb 2018The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Jan 2020The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Aug 2018Learning Math for Machine Learning
- Oct 2021Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN?
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- Jul 2023The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Jan 2024Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
- Mar 2025Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
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A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Sep 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Mar 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Aug 2017Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames? [pdf]
- Sep 2017Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight
- Oct 2017Transport for London plans to collect data from passengers' mobiles
- Dec 2017Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
- Feb 2018Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
- Nov 2018Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone
- Jan 2019Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
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A Critique of the CAP Theorem
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015A Critique of the CAP Theorem
- Jun 2017A Critique of the CAP Theorem
- Sep 2015Call Me Maybe: Percona XtraDB Cluster
- Oct 2015The CAP FAQ
- Jun 2017The Limits of the CAP Theorem
- Sep 2021Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?
- Jan 2024CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed (2012)
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2026Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
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Route Planning in Transportation Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024Route Planning in Transportation Networks (2015)
- Apr 2016Route Planning in Transportation Networks
- Apr 2015On Dijkstra's Algorithm
- Oct 2016Show HN: Dijkstra’s algorithm in the web browser with OpenStreetMap
- Feb 2017JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]
- Mar 2018B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010)
- Oct 2019New pathfinding algorithm
- Jan 2024A* tricks for videogame path finding
- Jan 2024A* tricks for videogame path finding
- Mar 2024Hexagons and Hilbert curves – The headaches of distributed spatial indices
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Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
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An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
- Mar 2018Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
- Sep 2018How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency
- Jan 2019Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
- Jul 2020Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
- Oct 2020Coinbase Card
- Dec 2020Zcash Open Major Grants
- Oct 2022Chainalysis CTO said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money
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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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End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jul 2016Master Plan, Part Deux
- Feb 2017The most cited deep learning papers
- May 2017Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
- Jun 2017Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
- Sep 2017Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms
- May 2018A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning
- Jul 2018Ask HN: What makes a good autonomous vehicles engineer?
- Jul 2018Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here
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Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
- Feb 2020This person does not exist
- Nov 2020This X Does Not Exist (2019)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Feb 2021Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Jul 2022Show HN: This Food Does Not Exist
- Oct 2024Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Mission to the Gravitational Focus of the Sun: A Critical Analysis
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Interstellar Communication via Gravitational Lens
- Aug 2017Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
- Feb 2018Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens
- Jul 2019Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA
- Apr 2023Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
- Aug 2024The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
- Oct 2024First images from Euclid are in
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Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
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Knowledge Representation in Bicategories of Relations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017A computational linguistic farce in three acts
- Nov 2017Modeling Science as a Directed Graph
- May 2018The Logical Disaster of Null
- Jul 2018Kialo – a platform for rational debate
- Dec 2018A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
- Aug 2019Software Architecture Guide
- Feb 2020Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
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Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2024Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019)
- Oct 2019Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Feb 2020T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
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European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jun 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash with Europe
- Jul 2016Training Computers to Find Future Criminals
- Aug 2016Make Algorithms Accountable
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Jun 2017You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Oct 2018How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)
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Universal adversarial perturbations
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Universal adversarial perturbations
- Nov 2016How close are we to solving vision?
- Nov 2016Show HN: Interactive deep convnet visualization for Keras and Tensorflow
- Jan 2017OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation
- Jun 2017Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
- Jul 2017Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Nov 2018Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans
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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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XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
- Apr 2016Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2016Notes from the fourth RISC-V workshop
- Jan 2017TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
- Jan 2017XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Aug 2018Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
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Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016Building machines that learn and think like people
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Causality in machine learning
- Apr 2017Ask HN: AI winter coming in next few years for AGI research?
- Apr 2017How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience
- Jul 2017The future of deep learning
- May 2019Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars
- Jun 2019An Explicitly Relational Neural Network Architecture
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Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
- Jan 2019Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
- Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
- Dec 2018Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
- Jun 2020Do We Train on Test Data? Purging Cifar of Near-Duplicates
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- Jan 2023A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
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Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Dec 2017Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality
- Feb 2019Syntax-Guided Synthesis
- Jan 2021Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Jan 2025Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
- Jul 2025FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
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