Hacker Papers

1. 951
   

   Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models

   Danijar Hafner et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2023Mastering Diverse Domains Through World Models
   • Jan 2023Google’s DeepMind: Mastering Diverse Domains Through World Models
   • Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
   • Apr 2025DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught

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2. 952
   

   How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball

   Muru Zhang et al. · 2023

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   • May 2023How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
   • May 2023A Logic for Expressing Transformers
   • Sep 2025An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
   • Dec 2025Project Vend: Phase Two

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3. 953
   

   SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression

   Tim Dettmers et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2023SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression
   • Jun 2023LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
   • Sep 2023ROCm Is AMD's #1 Priority, Executive Says
   • Mar 2024Fine tune a 70B language model at home

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4. 954
   

   In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors

   Roee Hendel et al. · 2023

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2023In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors
   • Oct 2023LLMs playing chess are sensitive to how the position came to be
   • Nov 2024Task Vectors [in Vision and Language Models (VLM's)] Are Cross-Modal
   • Dec 2025Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

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5. 955
   

   A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation

   Joel Veness et al. · 2009

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2010The Single Sign On
   • Nov 2018The impossibility of intelligence explosion
   • Jan 2024Learning Universal Predictors

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6. 956
   

   Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions

   Nathan Halko et al. · 2009

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2014Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors
   • Feb 2017Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (2014)
   • Sep 2024Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices

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7. 957
   

   A note comprising a negative resolution of the Efficient Market Hypothesis

   Robert Viragh · 2010

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2018Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
   • Apr 2019P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
   • May 2020Kindly Stop Saying the Efficient Market Hypothesis Is Dead

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8. 958
   

   HOGWILD!: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent

   Feng Niu et al. · 2011

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2016Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
   • Mar 2018Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly
   • Aug 2021Tesla Project Dojo Overview

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9. 959
   

   Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence

   Alex Rutherford et al. · 2011

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2015After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance
   • Jan 2019Immigration in American Economic History (2017) [pdf]
   • Jul 2020The global fertility rate is falling

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10. 960
    

    Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor

    Erik Lucero et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Jul 2015A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability
    • Jun 2019A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
    • Nov 2024Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

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11. 961
    

    Quantum computing and the entanglement frontier

    John Preskill · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2017Scientists pinpoint the singularity for quantum computers
    • Sep 2019On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
    • Oct 2019IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy

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12. 962
    

    Better Balance by Being Biased: A 0.8776-Approximation for Max Bisection

    Per Austrin et al. · 2012

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2017P vs. NP
    • Aug 2017A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
    • Oct 2021The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science

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13. 963
    

    A theory of regularity structures

    Martin Hairer · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2014Hearing Music in Noise, Martin Hairer Wins the Fields Medal
    • Sep 2020Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
    • Jul 2026"the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

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14. 964
    

    Network-Centric Quantum Communications with Application to Critical Infrastructure Protection

    Richard J. Hughes et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2013Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years
    • Jun 2013Technical Implications of the NSA's Prism Program
    • Aug 2013Declassified: The US Government’s Quantum Internet

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15. 965
    

    A Theory of Changes for Higher-Order Languages - Incrementalizing λ-Calculi by Static Differentiation

    Yufei Cai et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Derivatives of Regular Expressions (2007)
    • May 2019Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
    • Aug 2020What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?

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16. 966
    

    The Amplituhedron

    Nima Arkani-Hamed, Jaroslav Trnka · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2019Amplituhedron
    • Jun 2020Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
    • Oct 2022Nima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-Time [video]

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17. 967
    

    Fast Training of Convolutional Networks through FFTs

    Michael Mathieu et al. · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2015Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
    • May 2015A distributed supercomputer using Parallella boards
    • Sep 2020VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library

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18. 968
    

    Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

    Diederik P Kingma, Max Welling · 2013

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2015A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks (1998)
    • Oct 2017Variational Inference and Deep Learning: A New Synthesis [pdf]
    • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

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19. 969
    

    Interacting Hopf Algebras

    Filippo Bonchi et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2015Graphical Linear Algebra
    • Jun 2015Matrices, diagrammatically
    • Aug 2020Graphical Linear Algebra

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20. 970
    

    Self-Locating Uncertainty and the Origin of Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics

    Charles T. Sebens, Sean M. Carroll · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2014Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
    • Oct 2018The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
    • Sep 2019Where Quantum Probability Comes From

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21. 971
    

    Quantum algorithms for topological and geometric analysis of big data

    Seth Lloyd et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2014Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics
    • Jan 2016Combining topology and quantum computing = huge analysis of data sets
    • Oct 2016Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved

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22. 972
    

    What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview

    Bent Flyvbjerg · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2019Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget
    • Mar 2023Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center
    • Mar 2024Why is it so hard to build an airport?

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23. 973
    

    Certifying and removing disparate impact

    Michael Feldman et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2015Computer Scientists Find Bias in Algorithms
    • Mar 2016Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
    • Jul 2016Training Computers to Find Future Criminals

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24. 974
    

    Qualitatively characterizing neural network optimization problems

    Ian J. Goodfellow et al. · 2014

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2015Machine Learning: Curse of Dimensionality
    • Aug 2016What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
    • May 2024Gradient descent visualization

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25. 975
    

    Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (short version)

    Toby Cubitt et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Sep 2021The World After Capital (2018)
    • Sep 2022John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017)
    • Oct 2023What Is the Point of Decidability

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