Hacker Papers
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Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Modes and Neural Representations of the Hippocampal
- May 2022Relating transformers to neural representations of hippocampal formation
- Apr 2022Relating Transformers to Neural Representations of the Hippocampal Formation
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How to get back into AI?
- Jan 2024Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
- Jun 2024A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
- Sep 2024Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- 77
On the design of text editors
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024On the design of text editors (2020)
- Mar 2022On the Design of Text Editors
- Dec 2020On the Design of Text Editors
- Mar 2022Apple Mac Studio
- Jul 2023Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
- Apr 2024Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
- Oct 2025Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
- 78
How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups?
Hacker News threads
- 79
The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2025The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Nov 2020Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
- Mar 2021What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?
- Oct 2024We Can Terraform the American West
- 80
Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
- Jun 2021Decision Transformer: ReinforcementLearning via Sequence Modeling
- Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
- Jul 2021The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative Multi-Agent Games
- Oct 2023MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
- Aug 2024RLHF is just barely RL
- Jun 2025Q-learning is not yet scalable
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- 81
Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning
Hacker News threads
- 82
Copy-and-Patch Compilation: A fast compilation algorithm for high-level languages and bytecode
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020)
- Sep 2021Copy-and-Patch: Fast JIT Compilation for SQL, WebAssembly, and Others
- Sep 2022Wasmtime 1.0
- Nov 2022Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically
- Dec 2023Brandt Bucher – A JIT Compiler for CPython
- Jan 2024Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
- Mar 2024Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
- Jul 2024Mining JIT traces for missing optimizations with Z3
- Apr 2025Co-designing a sparse music codec with ChatGPT o3
- Sep 2025Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers
- 83
Why AI is Harder Than We Think
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021Why AI is harder than we think
- Aug 2023Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021) [pdf]
- Jan 2023Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021)
- Apr 2021Superintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion
- May 2021Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
- Jan 2023The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- Jun 2024Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
- Sep 2025Four Fallacies of Modern AI
- 84
Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks
Hacker News threads
- 85
Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
Hacker News threads
- May 2021Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- Sep 2025Geometric Deep Learning Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges [pdf]
- Apr 2021Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- May 2021An Erlangen Programme to Establish the Geometric Foundations of Deep Learning
- Jun 2021ICLR 2021 Keynote: “Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML”
- Apr 2022Why train when you can optimize?
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Just know stuff. (Or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)
- Feb 2023Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models
- Jun 2025Spherical CNNs (2018)
- Sep 2025The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
- 86
Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System (2020)
- Feb 2021Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
- Dec 2020Show HN: Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Nov 2022Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
- Sep 2025What Is Complexity in Chess?
- 87
Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones
Hacker News threads
- 88
The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
- Jan 2023On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)
- Jul 2025Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs
- Aug 2025Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes
- Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- 89
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
- 90
Learning to summarize from human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Sep 2020Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Apr 2023Google DeepMind
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- 91
The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
- Jun 2020The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
- May 2022The Next Decade in AI (2020)
- Jun 2020An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
- Oct 2022What “game over” for the latest paradigm in AI might look like
- Aug 2025GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
- 92
RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
- Apr 2023Why Are Sinusoidal Functions Used for Position Encoding?
- Aug 2023Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Apr 2025Multi-Token Attention
- Apr 2025The Llama 4 herd
- Apr 2025Llama 4 Now Live on Groq
- Aug 2025Open models by OpenAI
- 93
A Time Leap Challenge for SAT Solving
Hacker News threads
- 94
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Mar 2022Deep learning is hitting a wall?
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Sep 2022Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
- Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
- Oct 2023When Gradient Descent Is a Kernel Method
- 95
Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers
Hacker News threads
- 96
Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
- Jul 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
- Jul 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code (paper about GH copilot model)
- Jul 2021All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
- Sep 2021GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
- Dec 2021GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
- Jul 2022ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like
- May 2023Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
- Oct 2023Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
- Feb 2025AI is stifling new tech adoption?
- Jul 2025Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
- 97
Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage
Hacker News threads
- 98
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
- 99
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
- May 2020SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
- Dec 2022Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
- Oct 2024A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Jan 2025IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Jun 2025JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
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Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
Hacker News threads
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