Hacker Papers

1. 776
   

   Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

   Shaoqing Ren et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
   • Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
   • Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
   • Nov 2017Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice

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2. 777
   

   Document Embedding with Paragraph Vectors

   Andrew M. Dai et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
   • Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
   • Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
   • Nov 2025Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings

   arXiv ↗
3. 778
   

   FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI

   Elliot Glazer et al. · 2024

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2024FrontierMath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI
   • Nov 2024AlphaProof's Greatest Hits
   • Dec 2024Reimagining mathematics in a world of reasoning machines [video]
   • Feb 2025Goedel-Prover: A Frontier Model for Open-Source Automated Theorem Proving [pdf]

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4. 779
   

   Complete Chess Games Enable LLM Become A Chess Master

   Yinqi Zhang et al. · 2025

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2025LLMs aren't world models
   • Feb 2026Claude Sonnet 4.6 System Card
   • Feb 2026Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton
   • Jun 2026I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

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5. 780
   

   Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

   Charles Ye et al. · 2026

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2026Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK
   • Jul 2026The Session You Cannot take with you
   • Aug 2026Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
   • Aug 2026Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

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6. 781
   

   LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

   Philippe Laban et al. · 2025

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2025LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
   • May 2025The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
   • Jul 2025The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
   • Dec 2025The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

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7. 782
   

   Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code

   Andrea Corallo et al. · 2020

   Hacker News threads

   • May 2021Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)
   • Sep 2022Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
   • May 2020Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video]
   • Jul 2020Bump Emacs Version to 27.1
   • May 2021TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D

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8. 783
   

   Student of Games: A unified learning algorithm for both perfect and imperfect information games

   Martin Schmid et al. · 2021

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2021Player of Games
   • Jan 2022How A.I. Conquered Poker
   • Jul 2022Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
   • Dec 2023Show HN: Easily train AlphaZero-like agents on any environment you want!

   arXiv ↗
9. 784
   

   Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance

   Davide Fucci et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2019Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
   • Jul 2019What I Want from a Type System (2016)
   • Mar 2020Ask HN: What benefits can I provide to improve employee’s sleeping habits?
   • Oct 2022I’m taking some time away from Comma

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10. 785
    

    AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers

    Mordechai Guri · 2020

    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

    arXiv ↗
11. 786
    

    Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models

    David Raposo et al. · 2024

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
    • Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer language models
    • Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
    • Apr 2024Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)
    • Aug 2024Antifragility in complex dynamical systems
    • Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

    arXiv ↗
12. 787
    

    Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/'Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid

    Andreas M. Hein et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2017Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid
    • Sep 2022Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua [pdf]
    • Dec 2017Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
    • Dec 2017Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
    • Aug 2020Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
    • Jul 2024Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample

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13. 788
    

    Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact

    Massimo Bartoletti et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2017Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact
    • Jun 2017Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
    • Aug 2017Ethereum Scam Database
    • Oct 2017The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything

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14. 789
    

    Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web

    Gabriel Emile Hine et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2016A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
    • Oct 2016Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effect on the Web
    • Oct 2016A Longitudinal Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum
    • Jan 2017An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in 4chan /b/ (2011) [pdf]
    • Jun 2017A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]
    • Jul 2022Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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15. 790
    

    Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

    Robert J. Nemiroff, Teresa Wilson · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
    • Sep 2022Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
    • Apr 2017Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (2013)
    • Dec 2014Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
    • Oct 2016A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
    • May 2025When was peak message in a bottle?

    arXiv ↗
16. 791
    

    Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis

    Prafulla Dhariwal, Alex Nichol · 2021

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
    • Nov 2022Ten Years of Image Synthesis
    • May 2024Diffusion Models
    • Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models

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17. 792
    

    The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization

    Erik Hoel · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
    • Oct 2025The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
    • Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
    • Nov 2020Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
    • Mar 2021What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?
    • Oct 2024We Can Terraform the American West

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18. 793
    

    Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

    Dmitry Kobak et al. · 2024

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2024Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
    • Jun 2024Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
    • Jul 2024Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf]
    • Aug 2024Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT love the word "eager" so much?
    • Jan 2026Ask HN: How can you instantly tell something was written by AI?

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19. 794
    

    A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

    Adam Santoro et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2017Relational Reasoning with Neural Networks
    • Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2023DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

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20. 795
    

    Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

    Julien Perolat et al. · 2022

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2022Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
    • Jul 2022(typo in URL, ignore)
    • Jul 2022DeepMind: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent RL
    • Dec 2022Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
    • Oct 2025Poker Tournament for LLMs
    • Oct 2026With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

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21. 796
    

    Optimality of Gerver's Sofa

    Jineon Baek · 2024

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2024Optimality of Gerver's Sofa
    • Dec 2024The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!
    • Nov 2025Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
    • Jan 2026Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician

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22. 797
    

    Improved Techniques for Training GANs

    Tim Salimans et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2016Improved Techniques for Training GANs – OpenAI's first paper
    • Jun 2016Generative Models
    • Aug 2016OpenAI Team Update
    • Jan 2017Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning

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23. 798
    

    Deep Neuroevolution: Genetic Algorithms Are a Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

    Felipe Petroski Such et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2017Genetic Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
    • Dec 2017Evolving Simple Organisms
    • Jun 2018Playing Atari with Six Neurons
    • Jul 2018Deep Learning and Free Software

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24. 799
    

    Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks

    Marc Ohm et al. · 2020

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2020Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks
    • May 2020The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
    • Apr 2021Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
    • Sep 2025DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware

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25. 800
    

    BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains

    Linxing Preston Jiang et al. · 2018

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2018BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration
    • Oct 2018BrainNet: A Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains
    • Oct 2018BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface
    • Jul 2019Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface
    • Apr 2021Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?
    • Aug 2022Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

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