Hacker Papers
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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
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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
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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Aug 2021DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Jul 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Sep 2022DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
- Dec 2023Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
- Oct 2025Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
- Sep 2026Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
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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
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Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Jul 2021Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
- Sep 2022A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists
- Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
- May 2025Bloom Filters
- Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
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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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PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Pulse: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration
- Jun 2020Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit
- Jul 2020Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias
- Feb 2022Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
- May 2022Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
- Dec 2022Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature
- 83
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
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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
- 85
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Hacker News threads
- 86
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
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Large Language Models Can Self-Improve
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2022Large Language Models Can Self-Improve
- Feb 2023Large language models can self-improve
- Feb 2023Large Language Models Can Self-Improve
- Jan 2023ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
- Feb 2023Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
- Feb 2023Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?
- Feb 2023Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets Is Practical
- Feb 2023Eventually ChatGPT will eat itself
- Mar 2023GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
- May 2023Constitutional AI: RLHF on Steroids
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Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0
- Dec 2020Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's Cryptographic Protocol
- Jan 2021Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram’s MTProto 2.0
- Jan 2021Telegram publishes users' locations online
- Jan 2021WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
- Jan 2021Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
- Oct 2022Signal is secure, as proven by hackers
- Apr 2023WhatsApp announces key transparency being added to WhatsApp
- Aug 2024Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
- Aug 2024Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
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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
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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
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Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Apr 2023GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
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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
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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
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FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
Hacker News threads
- May 2024FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms (2021)
- May 2021FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms
- May 2021FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing
- May 2021An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- May 2024New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- Mar 2026TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean
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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
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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
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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
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Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Show Your Work: Scratchpads For Intermediate Computation With Language Models
- Feb 2022AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Mar 2023ChatGPT has trouble giving an answer before explaining its reasoning
- Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5
- Apr 2026Talk like caveman
- 100
Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2026Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Models
- Mar 2023Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Models
- Dec 2022Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Jan 2023Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
- Jan 2023Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
- Feb 2023Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
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