Hacker Papers
- 1001
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
- Apr 2026Alignment Whack-a-Mole
- Apr 2026Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
- Mar 2026The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
- Apr 2026AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way
- Jun 2026US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms deemed security risks
- Jul 2026Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
- 1002
Qwen3 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
- May 2026An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
- Jul 2026What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
- Aug 2026Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model
- 1003
The JPEG XL Image Coding System: History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale, and Future
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale
- Jun 2025The JPEG XL Image Coding System
- Jul 2025JPEG XL Coding System: History, Features, Tools, Design Rationale and Future
- Mar 2026JPEG Compression
- Aug 2026Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
- Sep 2026The case against JPEG XL
- Oct 2026Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
- 1004
SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long-Horizon Tasks
- Apr 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long-Horizon Task
- Jul 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long, Iterative Tasks
- Mar 2026Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
- Mar 2026AI Can Write Code, but Can It Build Software?
- May 2026I'm going back to writing code by hand
- May 2026Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook
- Jul 2026Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?
- Jul 2026Control the Ideas, Not the Code
- Jul 2026Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
- Jul 2026Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
- 1005
Measuring the tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities
- Jan 2018CNNs learn surface statistical regularities, not high-level abstract concepts
- Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
- Jan 2018Fourier transforms of images (2017)
- Jun 2018Bayesian Inference for Hiring Engineers
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Improving Deep Learning Performance with AutoAugment
- Jun 2018Ask HN: If another AI winter is upon us, where are the research chokepoints?
- Jul 2018Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Networks
- 1006
Hierarchical Reasoning Model
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Jul 2025A 27M-param model that solves hard Sudoku/mazes where LLMs fail, without CoT
- Jul 2025New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning with just 1,000 examples
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model – 1k training samples SoTA reasoning v/s CoT
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Aug 2025From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- 1007
Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Optimal bounds for open addressed hash tables without reordering
- Feb 2025Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Feb 2025Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- Mar 2025Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
- Dec 2025Speeding Up Hash Tables
- 1008
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (including HN users)
- Feb 2026Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (using HN posts)
- Feb 2026Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
- Feb 2026OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
- Feb 2026The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
- Apr 2026Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis
- May 2026Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
- May 2026AI scans 400k Reddit posts and finds hidden Ozempic side effects
- 1009
Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll
- Mar 2026AI compromised sandbox to mine crypto without prompting on its own initiative
- Mar 2026Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
- Mar 2026Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Jul 2026OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident
- Sep 2026Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
- 1010
Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Jun 2024Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy needed to power a lightbulb
- Jun 2024Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy needed to power a lightbulb
- Jun 2024Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
- Sep 2024Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison
- Oct 2024Addition is All You Need for Energy-efficient Language Models
- 1011
Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity In Medical Images
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity in Medical Images
- Aug 2021Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity in Medical Images [pdf]
- Aug 2021AI has the worst superpower medical racism
- Sep 2021AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
- Sep 2021AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
- Sep 2021AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
- Dec 2021Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
- 1012
Make-A-Scene: Scene-Based Text-to-Image Generation with Human Priors
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2022Make-a-Scene: Scene-Based Text-to-Image Generation with Human Priors
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Apr 2022A few things to try with DALL·E
- May 2022My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
- Jul 2022Meta's Make-a-Scene with AI = DALL-E with creative control via simple sketch
- Jul 2022AI image generation: more creative control
- 1013
Combining Markov Random Fields and Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2016Combining Markov Random Fields and Convolutional Neural Nets for Image Synthesis
- Jan 2016Combining Markov Random Fields and Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Synth
- Jan 2016Transfer Image Style -Combining Markov Random Fields and CNN for Image Synthesis
- Mar 2016Pictures combined using Neural networks
- Mar 2016Image Analogies using Neural Networks
- Mar 2016Images analogies deep learning
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Sep 2016Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
- 1014
AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2026AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
- Jun 2026AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
- Aug 2026AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
- Jun 2026U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
- Sep 2026Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
- Sep 2026The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
- Sep 2026Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- Oct 2026Botnets Prove Rogue AI Is Closer Than We Think
- 1015
Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)
- Nov 2022Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
- Feb 2023Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
- Feb 202360 Nations agree to regulate AI in the military before it destroys the world
- Apr 2023Ask HN: It is important”, a side effect of Transformers attention?
- Nov 2023In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
- 1016
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Jan 2026Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models
- Apr 2026System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7
- Oct 2026Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
- 1017
Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018Kristen Stewart: Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer
- Jan 2017Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim
- Jan 2017Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim
- Jan 2017Actress Kristen Stewart just released a research paper on AI
- Jan 2017Kristen Stewart co-authors AI paper
- Apr 2017Adobe Sensei
- Nov 2017A Year in Computer Vision
- 1018
Scale-free networks are rare
Hacker News threads
- 1019
AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Apr 2026AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Oct 2026AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Apr 2026There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
- Apr 2026Codex for Almost Everything
- Jul 2026The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
- Oct 2026Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
- 1020
Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
- Apr 2024Monitoring AI-Modified Content: Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
- Apr 2024A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
- Mar 2024AI-generated images got through peer review [video]
- Apr 2024Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
- Apr 2024AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse
- Jun 2024Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
- 1021
Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Scaling Test-Time Compute Can Be More Effective Than Scaling Parameters (2024)
- Aug 2024Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute More Effective Than Scaling Model Parameters
- Sep 2024Scaling LLM Test-Time can be More Effective than Scaling Parameters
- Aug 2024Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed
- Aug 2024Let's Verify Step by Step
- Sep 2024Learning to Reason with LLMs
- Dec 2024Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace
- 1022
Predictive Inequity in Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2019Predictive Inequity in Object Detection
- Mar 2019Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
- Mar 2019Self-driving cars may be more likely to hit you if you have dark skin
- Apr 2019MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
- Aug 2019How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead
- 1023
Large Language Model Guided Tree-of-Thought
Hacker News threads
- 1024
ExpertPrompting: Instructing Large Language Models to be Distinguished Experts
Hacker News threads
- 1025
Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Second-order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-training
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024Sophia: Scalable Stochastic 2nd-Order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training
- May 2023Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Second-Order Optimizer
- Jul 2023Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training
- May 2023MITx Differential Equations starts May 31
- Jun 2023Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU
- Jun 2023Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU
- Aug 2023Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster
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