Hacker Papers
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The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023The Forward-Forward Algorithm, potential alternative to backpropagation
- May 2023The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations (2022)
- Jan 2023Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning Algorithm
- Jun 2023MeZO: Fine-Tuning Language Models with Just Forward Passes
- Jun 2023Geoffrey Hinton: “We're toast. This is the actual end of history”
- Apr 2024Storm: LLM system that researches a topic and generates full-length wiki article
- Jul 2024Training of Physical Neural Networks
- Jan 2025Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
- 77
One Glitch to Rule Them All: Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization
- Apr 2022Intel deprecates SGX on Core series processors
- Aug 2023AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54%
- Sep 2023Mashing Enter to bypass full disk encryption with TPM, Clevis dracut and systemd
- May 2025Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
- Aug 2025A privacy VPN you can verify
- 78
Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Oct 2021GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
- Jun 2022Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code
- Dec 2022Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy
- Jan 2023It's Plausible, but Is It True?
- 79
Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyper-Fast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Hyper-fast solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory (2020)
- Mar 2021Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
- May 2021Physical Warp Drives
- Sep 2021Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
- Jan 2022The horizon problem for faster than light travel
- Mar 2023SETI@home Is in Hibernation
- 80
Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Feb 2024A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
- Jul 2024XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
- Jun 2025Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers
- Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer
- 81
Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2022Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
- Oct 2022AI language models are struggling to “get” math
- Dec 2022Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
- Feb 2023To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- 82
Retrofitting Effect Handlers onto OCaml
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2021Retrofitting Effect Handlers onto OCaml
- May 2022Retrofitting Effect Handlers onto OCaml
- May 2021Multicore OCaml: April 2021
- May 2021Multicore OCaml: April 2021
- Jan 2022OCaml Multicore merged upstream
- Jun 2022Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed
- Dec 2022OCaml 5.0.0 release (including multicore and effects)
- Mar 2023Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust
- 83
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Hacker News threads
- 84
Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion
- Dec 2022Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models
- Dec 2022Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Data Replication in Diffusion Models
- Dec 2022GPT3/DALL-E2 in Discord, chat like ChatGPT, generate images, and more
- Jan 2023Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against DeviantArt & others
- Jan 2023Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against DeviantArt & others
- Jan 2023Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation
- Jan 2023An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit
- Feb 2023Stable Diffusion found to emit some images from training at generation time
- Feb 2023Stable Attribution
- Jul 2024Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
- 85
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jun 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Jul 2021The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Apr 2022The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best
- Nov 2023Understanding Deep Learning
- 86
Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)
- Jun 2022Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
- Jun 2022Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
- Jun 2022Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase and A15 Based IP
- Dec 2022Sorting with SIMD
- Jan 2023Efficient and performance-portable vector software
- Mar 2024JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
- 87
GLU Variants Improve Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Sep 2024SwiGLU activation function causes instability in FP8 LLM training
- Jun 2026Don't trust large context windows
- Jun 2026Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8
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Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Mar 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Mar 2022Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
- Jun 2022Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
- Jun 2022Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
- Feb 2023Why Sat Is Hard
- Mar 2023Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days?
- Jun 2024Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
- 89
A ConvNet for the 2020s
Hacker News threads
- May 2024A ConvNet for the 2020s
- Jan 2022A ConvNet for the 2020s
- Jan 2022A ConvNet for the 2020s
- Apr 2022Transformers Are All You Need
- Apr 2022Transformers Are All You Need
- Apr 2023Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows
- Jan 2024Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
- Aug 2024What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
- 90
Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero [pdf]
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Nov 2021Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Dec 2021Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Feb 2026Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
- 91
Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)
- May 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text
- Nov 2020Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text [pdf]
- Jul 2020An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
- Jul 2020CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
- Aug 2020Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Mar 2026A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control
- 92
Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021A dubious writing style emerging in science
- Aug 2021Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
- Jun 2023Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads
- Dec 2023Tortured conference series thriving in Computer Science
- Aug 2026Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- Aug 2026Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- 93
Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation
Hacker News threads
- 94
GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022End-to-end deep learning methods beat production weather forecast accuracy
- Jan 2023GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
- Aug 2023Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens
- Dec 2023Predict the next frame. Results of training a transformer on "visual sentences"
- Dec 2025NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models
- Aug 2026DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
- 95
Learned Indexes for a Google-scale Disk-based Database
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024Learned Indexes for a Google-Scale Disk-Based Database
- Jan 2021PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
- Feb 2022Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jun 2025The probability of a hash collision (2022)
- 96
An Overview on IEEE 802.11bf: WLAN Sensing
Hacker News threads
- 97
YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2020YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
- Apr 2020YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
- May 2020Training YOLOv4 on a Custom Dataset
- Jun 2020YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
- Dec 2021Pine64 and Radxa's new Pi CM4-compatible boards
- May 2022DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
- 98
Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
- 99
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers
- Mar 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers (2021)
- Mar 2021Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
- Aug 2021Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
- Apr 2023Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers
- Feb 2026Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers
- 100
Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle
Hacker News threads
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