Hacker Papers
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Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
- Nov 2016Facebook is harming our democracy
- Nov 2016A machine learning approach to identifying thought markers of suicidal subjects
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Apr 2017Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence criminals
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Jun 2018AI at Google: our principles
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Jun 2024Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
- 77
SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
- Mar 2019In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Slide: In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Deep Learning Breakthrough Sees One Xeon Destroying 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
- Dec 2020Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Aug 2021pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
- Oct 2021New features coming in Julia 1.7
- Feb 2022Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
- Feb 2025(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
- 78
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
- Mar 2018Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
- Sep 2018How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency
- Jan 2019Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
- Jul 2020Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
- Oct 2020Coinbase Card
- Dec 2020Zcash Open Major Grants
- Oct 2022Chainalysis CTO said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money
- 79
Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
- Feb 2020This person does not exist
- Nov 2020This X Does Not Exist (2019)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Feb 2021Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Jul 2022Show HN: This Food Does Not Exist
- Oct 2024Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
- 80
Knowledge Representation in Bicategories of Relations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017A computational linguistic farce in three acts
- Nov 2017Modeling Science as a Directed Graph
- May 2018The Logical Disaster of Null
- Jul 2018Kialo – a platform for rational debate
- Dec 2018A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
- Aug 2019Software Architecture Guide
- Feb 2020Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
- 81
XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
- Apr 2016Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2016Notes from the fourth RISC-V workshop
- Jan 2017TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
- Jan 2017XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Aug 2018Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- 82
Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
- Jan 2019Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
- Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
- Dec 2018Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
- Jun 2020Do We Train on Test Data? Purging Cifar of Near-Duplicates
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- Jan 2023A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
- 83
Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Dec 2017Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality
- Feb 2019Syntax-Guided Synthesis
- Jan 2021Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Jan 2025Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
- Jul 2025FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
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What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Apr 2020What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Jul 2022I should have loved biology
- Apr 2023Gradients Are Not All You Need
- 85
Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Oct 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Sep 2019The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so
- Oct 2019Green AI
- Sep 2021Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns
- Oct 2021Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- Feb 2024I don't want anything your AI generates
- 86
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar (2015)
- Jun 2021Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar
- Feb 2015Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar [pdf]
- Sep 2018Raytracing a Black Hole
- Mar 2019Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
- Apr 2019Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
- Aug 2024Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- Nov 2024Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
- May 2026Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
- 87
Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples
- Jun 2020Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Aug 2017Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Apr 2016I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf]
- Aug 2017Why Deep Learning surprises me
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Jan 2018Audio Adversarial Examples
- Mar 2018AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
- Oct 2019Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
- 88
Adversarial Patch
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch
- Dec 2017Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- May 2018Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert
- Dec 2018Ask HN: Has anyone used adversarial patches for effect?
- Aug 2019Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries
- Jan 2020How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
- Apr 2020Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
- Mar 2024The Elements of Differentiable Programming
- 89
Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
- Nov 2019Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes
- Aug 2020Cellular Automata as Convolutional Neural Networks
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2021Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Jan 2024Transformers Are Multi-State RNNs
- 90
FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015Google FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Mar 2015FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Apr 2016Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
- May 2016Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
- May 2017Machine Learning
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Aug 2018Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems
- Jul 2019FBI, ICE using state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition searches
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Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend
- Mar 2019Sikorsky’s autonomous helicopter tech is ready for takeoff
- Apr 2019Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Jul 2020Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
- Sep 2024Big Tech Sees Like a State (2020)
- 92
Dropout as a Bayesian Approximation: Representing Model Uncertainty in Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks (1998)
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2017Braess’ paradox
- Nov 2017Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2018Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010)
- Jan 2023Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?
- 93
Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Feb 2020JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
- Jun 2020Image GPT
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Oct 2024Faster convergence for diffusion models
- Oct 2025Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
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Real Differences between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
- Oct 2018Real differences between ot and crdt for co-editors
- Oct 2018Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
- May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Sep 2021The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
- Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- 95
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 96
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- May 2019Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
- Jan 2018Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
- Apr 2018The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Jan 2019What are the limits of deep learning?
- Nov 2019It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- Nov 2025A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
- 97
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
- Dec 2016Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017Apple Machine Learning Journal
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Nov 2017Closing the Simulation-to-Reality Gap for Deep Robotic Learning
- May 2020Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
- Jan 2024Barcoding Bees (2020)
- 98
DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017DolphinAtack: Inaudible Voice Commands
- Sep 2017DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands
- Sep 2017South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
- Sep 2017South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
- May 2018Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
- Jan 2019Designing an audio adblocker
- Mar 2019Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
- Feb 2020SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
- Feb 2020Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop
- 99
Learning to reinforcement learn
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- 100
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- May 2019Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- Nov 2024Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials (2018) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
- Jul 2019Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
- May 2022Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
- Jul 2022Notation for Differentiation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2025Multiplicative Infinitesimals
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