Hacker Papers
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Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2015DeepMind: Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
- Jun 2015Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend – Deepmind [pdf]
- Jun 2015Google Deepmind – Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend [pdf]
- Jun 2015DeepMind uses the Daily Mail as a huge training corpus for text comprehension
- Dec 2015Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend [pdf]
- Feb 2016Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed
- May 2016IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson
- 802
Skip-Thought Vectors
Hacker News threads
- 803
The Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot
Hacker News threads
- 804
What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025LLMs fail to demonstrate internal world model, according to Harvard/MIT study
- Jul 2025AGI Is Mathematically Impossible (3): Kolmogorov Complexity
- Aug 2025Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
- Oct 2025Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
- Jun 2026ΠFS
- 805
Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them [pdf]
- Dec 2017Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them (ECDSA, SHA256)
- Jul 2019Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them
- Nov 2017Ask HN: Where do you think Bitcoin will be by 2020?
- Jan 2018NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 1 Submissions
- Apr 2018Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security
- Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
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Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Dec 2022Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
- Feb 2023Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT
- May 2023Giving GPT “Infinite” Knowledge
- 807
The RefinedWeb Dataset for Falcon LLM: Outperforming Curated Corpora with Web Data, and Web Data Only
Hacker News threads
- 808
Streaming End-to-end Speech Recognition For Mobile Devices
Hacker News threads
- 809
Depth from Videos in the Wild: Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning from Unknown Cameras
Hacker News threads
- 810
Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention
Hacker News threads
- 811
A Definition of AGI
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025A definition of AGI
- Oct 2025What is intelligence? (2024)
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Oct 2025Scientists can't define consciousness, yet we think AI will have it
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Nov 2025Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?
- 812
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- Jun 2026The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs
- May 2023What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups
- May 2023HN thread 36136318
- Jun 2023OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2026Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models
- 813
Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
Hacker News threads
- May 2013Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
- Mar 2014Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
- May 2013
- May 2013
- May 2013
- Nov 2013Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fusion devices
- Nov 2013Preorder your very own cold fusion reactor
- Feb 2016The E-Cat has been replicated?
- 814
Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Can large language models reason about medical questions?
- Jan 2023GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say
- Jan 2023Google and DeepMind just launched MedPaLM, a large language model
- Jan 2023An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- 815
A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Jul 2018Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
- Sep 2019Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
- Nov 2019Quantum advantage, or a practical demonstration that quantum computers work
- 816
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2026GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Aug 2025A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents [pdf]
- Oct 2025Claude Skills
- Oct 2025The case for the return of fine-tuning
- Feb 2026Agent Skills
- Feb 2026Optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing Any Text Parameter
- 817
Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on superconducting quantum processor
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Jan 2023Scott Aaronson weighs in on purported quantum factoring breakthrough
- Jan 2023Factorization (DCQF) of a 48-bit integer using 10 trapped-ion qubits
- Aug 2023
- May 2024Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
- 818
What is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015What Is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
- Dec 2015What Is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
- Dec 2015What Is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?
- Dec 2015When can Quantum Annealing win?
- Dec 2015Google, NASA: Our quantum computer is 100M times faster than normal PC
- Dec 2015Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup
- May 2016Google Announced their D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer Works (2015)
- Sep 2016D-Wave Founder's New Startup Combines AI, Robots, and Monkeys in Exo-Suits
- 819
Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- May 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- May 2025Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
- Aug 2025Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths
- Oct 2025A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
- Feb 2026Faster Than Dijkstra?
- Feb 2026Faster Than Dijkstra?
- Feb 2026C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
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Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2015Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities [pdf]
- Apr 2015Internet trolls: Proactive policing
- Apr 2015Internet trolls: Proactive policing
- Apr 2015Internet trolls: Proactive policing
- Jun 2015European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ comments
- Jun 2015Fighting spam with Haskell
- Aug 2016News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
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Unexpected biases in the distribution of consecutive primes
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016Unexpected biases in the distribution of consecutive primes
- Mar 2016A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
- Mar 2016A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
- Jun 2016Prime After Prime
- Feb 2020Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016)
- Feb 2020Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016)
- 822
Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
- Jun 2020Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
- Jun 2020Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
- Jan 2021Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
- Sep 2021Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020)
- 823
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016The Mythos of Model Interpretability
- Feb 2017Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence
- Jan 2020Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
- Jan 2020Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
- Jan 2020A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
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Superhuman performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Dec 2024Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Jan 2025Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician
- Jan 2025Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
- Jan 2025Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
- May 2025The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
- May 2026OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Hacker News threads
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