Hacker Papers

1. 976
   

   Trust Region Policy Optimization

   John Schulman et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2016The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1
   • Jun 2016Generative Models
   • May 2017Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

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2. 977
   

   Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields

   Yoichi Ochiai et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2015A floating holographic plasma display that you can touch
   • May 2019UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
   • May 2024Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)

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3. 978
   

   The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory

   David Deutsch · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2018The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
   • Aug 2018The Paradox of Karl Popper
   • Oct 2022Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse explanation of quantum weirdness

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4. 979
   

   Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation

   Minh-Thang Luong et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2023Planning for AGI and Beyond
   • May 2023Google receives patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks
   • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

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5. 980
   

   Variational Information Maximisation for Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning

   Shakir Mohamed, Danilo Jimenez Rezende · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
   • Dec 2015The A.I. Anxiety
   • Jun 2016Deep Mind Playing Montezuma's Revenge with Intrinsic Motivation [video]

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6. 981
   

   ACDC: A Structured Efficient Linear Layer

   Marcin Moczulski et al. · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2016Optical solutions to NP-Complete problems
   • Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
   • Jan 2019Dirty lenses (2016)

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7. 982
   

   Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions

   Chenhao Tan et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2017How to change someone's mind, according to science
   • Jul 2019The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions
   • Apr 2025Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments

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8. 983
   

   Automatic Differentiation Variational Inference

   Alp Kucukelbir et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2016Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages
   • Mar 2017An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (2003) [pdf]
   • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

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9. 984
   

   Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs

   Yu. A. Malkov, D. A. Yashunin · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
   • May 2023Abusing Vector Search for Texts, Maps, and Chess ♟
   • Sep 2024Understanding Pgvector's HNSW Index Storage in Postgres

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10. 985
    

    Density estimation using Real NVP

    Laurent Dinh et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
    • Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
    • Apr 2020Making an invertible function out of non-invertible parts

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11. 986
    

    Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem with Artificial Neural Networks

    Giuseppe Carleo, Matthias Troyer · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2017Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems
    • May 2017C++ Code for Quantum Many Body Solutions with Artificial Neural Networks
    • Mar 2018Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]

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12. 987
    

    Deep Learning with Differential Privacy

    Martín Abadi et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Oct 2016Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
    • Mar 2018The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (2014) [pdf]
    • Mar 2022Launch HN: Sarus (YC W22) – Work on sensitive data with differential privacy

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13. 988
    

    Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling

    Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Feb 2020Reflections on Software Performance
    • Jun 2020C performance mystery: delete unused string constant
    • Jan 2025Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

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14. 989
    

    Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks

    Thomas N. Kipf, Max Welling · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
    • Dec 2020Deep Graph Library: Easy Deep Learning on Graphs
    • Jan 2023Ask HN: ML Papers to Implement

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15. 990
    

    Image-to-Markup Generation with Coarse-to-Fine Attention

    Yuntian Deng et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • May 2017Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot
    • Dec 2017Accessibility Through Semantic HTML
    • Nov 2023Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code

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16. 991
    

    SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit

    Mordechai Guri et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2018Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
    • Jul 2020Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
    • Nov 2024Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

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17. 992
    

    Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern convolutional object detectors

    Jonathan Huang et al. · 2016

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
    • Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
    • Nov 2019Show HN: OpenCV based multi-object-tracker with various object detection models

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18. 993
    

    Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks

    Chelsea Finn et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
    • Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
    • Mar 2019Gödel Machine

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19. 994
    

    Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures

    Denny Britz et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2017Google Team Refines GPU Powered Neural Machine Translation
    • Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
    • Oct 2024Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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20. 995
    

    Domain Randomization for Transferring Deep Neural Networks from Simulation to the Real World

    Josh Tobin et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2017Spam detection in the physical world
    • Feb 2021A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning
    • Apr 2021Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)

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21. 996
    

    Deep Learning is Robust to Massive Label Noise

    David Rolnick et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Mar 2022Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail
    • Oct 2022Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
    • Jul 2024A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens

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22. 997
    

    Quantum resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms

    Martin Roetteler et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Jun 2018I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
    • Aug 2024Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
    • Mar 2026Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]

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23. 998
    

    Recurrent Relational Networks

    Rasmus Berg Palm et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Dec 2018The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
    • Feb 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
    • Jul 2023Code Interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week

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24. 999
    

    Deep Image Prior

    Dmitry Ulyanov et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2018This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
    • Feb 2021Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition
    • Dec 2021HyperNeRF

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25. 1000
    

    A Multi-Horizon Quantile Recurrent Forecaster

    Ruofeng Wen et al. · 2017

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2019Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?
    • Jul 2021Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
    • Dec 2022Statistical vs. Deep Learning forecasting methods

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