Hacker Papers

1. 926
   

   Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning

   Ben Sorscher et al. · 2022

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   • Aug 2022Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning
   • Jul 2022Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning
   • Jul 2022Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
   • Dec 2022Copilot Internals
   • Mar 2026Microgpt

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2. 927
   

   TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second

   Noah Hollmann et al. · 2022

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   • Oct 2022A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second
   • Aug 2022Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
   • Aug 2023Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data
   • Jan 2025Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data

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3. 928
   

   Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models

   Daniel Y. Fu et al. · 2022

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   • Jan 2023Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models
   • Jan 2023Towards Language Modeling With State Space Models
   • Feb 2023GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text
   • Mar 2023We're never getting rid of ChatGPT
   • Apr 2025Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM

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4. 929
   

   The Poison of Alignment

   Aibek Bekbayev et al. · 2023

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   • Aug 2023The Poison of (LLMs) Alignment
   • Aug 2023The Poison of Alignment
   • Aug 2023The Poison of Alignment
   • Sep 2023Study shows over time, ChatGPT lost accuracy
   • Jun 2024Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
   • Jan 2025DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss

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5. 930
   

   What Algorithms can Transformers Learn? A Study in Length Generalization

   Hattie Zhou et al. · 2023

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   • Feb 2024What Algorithms Can Transformers Learn? A Study in Length Generalization
   • Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
   • Apr 2024What can LLMs never do?
   • Dec 2024Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

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6. 931
   

   Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?

   Alexandra Sasha Luccioni et al. · 2023

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   • Apr 2024Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?
   • Dec 2023Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
   • Feb 2024Paragraph Pollution: AI is (probably) greener than you typing on a laptop
   • Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?

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7. 932
   

   LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench

   Karthik Valmeekam et al. · 2024

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   • Sep 2024LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of O1 on PlanBench
   • Sep 2024Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round
   • Oct 2024Were RNNs all we needed?
   • Jan 2025Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?

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8. 933
   

   Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

   Yang Yue et al. · 2025

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   • Apr 2025Does RL Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
   • Jun 2025Does Reinforcement Learning Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs?
   • May 2025GRPO experiment - I trained a Language Model to schedule events
   • Mar 2026Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
   • Jul 2026Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results

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9. 934
   

   A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence

   Andrew Critch, Jacob Tsimerman · 2025

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   • Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
   • Jul 2026A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (2025)
   • Jul 2026Fields Medals 2026
   • Sep 2026The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
   • Oct 2026LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

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10. 935
    

    Scalable Chrysopoeia via $(n, 2n)$ Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Neutrons

    Adam Rutkowski et al. · 2025

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    • Jul 2025Scalable Chrysopoeia via (N,2n) Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion
    • Aug 2025An Unusual Way to End Up with a Whole Lot of Gold
    • Sep 2025Marathon Fusion claims it can turn mercury into gold while creating clean energy
    • Feb 2026Cells Use 'Bioelectricity' to Coordinate and Make Group Decisions

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11. 936
    

    Quantum Time Crystals

    Frank Wilczek · 2012

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    • Jul 2024Show HN: Spk.so – AI Conversational Audio Discussions
    • Aug 2012An Unexpected Ass Kicking
    • May 2013‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time
    • Jun 2018There Are No Laws of Physics, There’s Only the Landscape

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12. 937
    

    Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins separated by 1.3 km

    B. Hensen et al. · 2015

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    • Oct 2015Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove ‘Spooky’ Interactions
    • Aug 2018Do electrons think? (1949)
    • May 2021What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
    • May 2021What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
    • Sep 2024Breaking Bell's Inequality with Monte Carlo Simulations in Python

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13. 938
    

    Bad Universal Priors and Notions of Optimality

    Jan Leike, Marcus Hutter · 2015

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    • Jun 2021Bad Universal Priors and Notions of Optimality (2015)
    • Aug 2021Fooling Neural Networks [pdf]
    • May 2024Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
    • Nov 2024The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001)

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14. 939
    

    SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector

    Wei Liu et al. · 2015

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    • Nov 2016State of the Art Dnn. Single Shot MultiBox Detector
    • Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
    • Oct 2019Video Architecture Search
    • Feb 2020Creator of YOLO and SSD algorithm stopped CV research due to ethical concerns

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15. 940
    

    Synthesizing the preferred inputs for neurons in neural networks via deep generator networks

    Anh Nguyen et al. · 2016

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    • Jun 2016Impressive synthesized images in new paper
    • Jun 2016Generative Models
    • Aug 2016Text to Image Synthesis Using Thought Vectors
    • May 2017Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, and Humanity

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16. 941
    

    Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

    Pang Wei Koh, Percy Liang · 2017

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    • Mar 2017Understanding Black-Box Machine Learning Predictions via Influence Functions
    • Jul 2021The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies
    • Feb 2023Stable Attribution
    • Mar 2023Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator

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17. 942
    

    Motion Sensor-based Privacy Attack on Smartphones

    S Abhishek Anand et al. · 2019

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    • Nov 2021Motion Sensor-Based Privacy Attack on Smartphones
    • Sep 2020Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads
    • Nov 2021iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
    • Nov 2022People Still Think Their Smart Speakers Are Eavesdropping on Conversations

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18. 943
    

    Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data

    M. Keith Chen et al. · 2019

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    • Sep 2019Racial disparities in voting wait times: evidence from smartphone data
    • Oct 2020Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote
    • May 2021Are we cut out for universal morality?
    • Jun 2023Why Britain Doesn’t Build

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19. 944
    

    Reformer: The Efficient Transformer

    Nikita Kitaev et al. · 2020

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    • Jan 2020Reformer: The Efficient Transformer
    • Jan 2020Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
    • Oct 2020Nilang.jl – A Reversible Julia DSL
    • May 2026SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

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20. 945
    

    Unexpected Circular Radio Objects at High Galactic Latitude

    Ray P. Norris et al. · 2020

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    • Jul 2020Unexpected Circular Radio Objects at High Galactic Latitude
    • Jul 2020Highly circular objects spotted in deep space
    • Dec 2020“Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited
    • Mar 2022Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail

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21. 946
    

    Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

    Yuntao Bai et al. · 2022

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    • Aug 2023Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human
    • Mar 2023Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
    • Aug 2023The Poison of (LLMs) Alignment
    • Sep 2023Meta wants its open source AI model to be as capable as OpenAI’s best model

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22. 947
    

    How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups?

    Scott Aaronson · 2022

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    • Oct 2022How Much Structure Is Needed for Quantum Speedups?
    • Oct 2022Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
    • Nov 2022Quantum winter is coming
    • Oct 2025Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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23. 948
    

    Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding

    Zijiao Chen et al. · 2022

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    • Nov 2022Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modelin
    • Nov 2022Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans
    • Feb 2023Real-Time Brain-to-Image Reconstructions
    • May 2023Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds

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24. 949
    

    PAL: Program-aided Language Models

    Luyu Gao et al. · 2022

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    • Jan 2023Program Aided Language Models
    • Jan 2023GPT-3: Techniques to improve reliability
    • Mar 2023Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Knowledge Pollution
    • Nov 2025Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)

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25. 950
    

    Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers

    Chengyi Wang et al. · 2023

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    • Jan 2023Neural Codec Language Models Are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
    • Jan 2023Will TTS and STT benefit from the AI boom?
    • Feb 2023I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
    • Sep 2024Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon

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