Hacker Papers
- 826
ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
- Dec 2018ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
- Dec 2018Waymo tests AI driving system that learns from labeled data
- Dec 2018Waymo – Learning to Drive: Beyond Pure Imitation
- Jan 2019Report: Tesla using behavior cloning/supervised imitation learning for Autopilot
- Nov 2019Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]
- 827
Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- Apr 2025Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time
- May 2025Will supercapacitors come to AI's rescue?
- May 2025Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
- Jul 2025MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System
- May 2026Language Models Need Sleep
- 828
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019Albert: A Lite Bert for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
- Jan 2020ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Dec 2020Scaling Down Deep Learning
- Jun 2022Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
- 829
Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- Aug 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Sep 2025Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
- Aug 2025LLMs' "simulated reasoning" abilities are a "brittle mirage," researchers find
- Aug 2025From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- May 2026Three Inverse Laws of AI
- 830
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Sims
- Sep 2025Can We Fix Social Media? Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Simulation
- Aug 2025Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Social Simulation
- Aug 2025Study: Social media probably can't be fixed
- Aug 2025Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
- Oct 2025Situated Software – Clay Shirky (2004)
- Mar 2026Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
- 831
That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017The aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox
- Nov 2017That is not dead which can eternal lie
- Oct 2023That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation for Fermi's paradox
- Jul 2017Dissolving the Fermi Paradox [pdf]
- Jul 2017A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet
- Jun 2018What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from now
- Oct 2018Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test
- 832
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-Constant Number of Poison Samples
- Oct 2025Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- Nov 2025PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
- Jan 2026LeCun calls Alex Wang inexperienced, predicts more Meta AI employee departure
- Jan 2026AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
- 833
Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Diffusion Transformer
- Feb 2024Sora: Creating video from text
- Feb 2024Stable Diffusion 3
- May 2025Gemini Diffusion
- Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models
- 834
Persistent Pre-Training Poisoning of LLMs
Hacker News threads
- 835
Mission Apollo: Landing Optical Circuit Switching at Datacenter Scale
Hacker News threads
- 836
A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer
Hacker News threads
- 837
That Chip Has Sailed: A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024That Chip Has Sailed: Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
- Nov 2024A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
- Nov 2024AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design
- Nov 2024AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design
- Dec 2024Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
- Dec 2024Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
- Feb 2025Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
- 838
Constructor Theory of Information
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Constructor Theory of Information
- Nov 2014Constructor Theory of Information
- Mar 2019Constructor Theory of Information
- May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
- May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
- Dec 2014Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise
- Apr 2021How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility
- 839
Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2019Lower bounds for the cost of multiplication via network coding
- Mar 2019Integer multiplication in time O(n log n) [pdf]
- Apr 2019Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
- Jul 2020Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
- Jul 2020Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
- 840
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021Zero-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- May 2023Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
- Oct 2023Why async gradient update doesn't get popular in LLM community?
- 841
A Relatively Small Turing Machine Whose Behavior Is Independent of Set Theory
Hacker News threads
- 842
Users prefer Guetzli JPEG over same-sized libjpeg
Hacker News threads
- 843
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- 844
BBQ: A Hand-Built Bias Benchmark for Question Answering
Hacker News threads
- 845
ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
Hacker News threads
- 846
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
- Mar 2024How far are we from intelligent visual deductive reasoning?
- Mar 2024How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
- Sep 2024Cot Decoding – Eliciting Reasoning from LLMs
- Feb 2025Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output
- 847
Tighter Bounds on the Expressivity of Transformer Encoders
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
- Jun 2023Thinking Like Transformers (pdf)
- Jun 2023Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jan 2024Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One
- 848
Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions
Hacker News threads
- 849
High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Nov 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Oct 2022Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
- Nov 2022Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
- Nov 2022New Mac app wants to record everything you do–so you can “rewind” it later
- Aug 2024AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
- 850
The Grand Illusion: The Myth of Software Portability and Implications for ML Progress
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024The Myth of Software Portability and Implications for ML Progress (2023)
- Sep 2023The Myth of Software Portability and Implications for ML Progress
- Oct 2023SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML
- Jan 2024Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100
- Sep 2024Show HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUs
- Sep 2024We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs
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