Hacker Papers

1. 1026
   

   Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution

   Jared Fuchs et al. · 2024

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   • May 2024Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
   • May 2024Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
   • May 2024Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution
   • May 2024
   • Jul 2024New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
   • Jul 2024New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
   • Nov 2024Congress hears testimony on aliens

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2. 1027
   

   What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models

   Ekin Akyürek et al. · 2022

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   • Feb 2023What Learning Algorithm Is IN-Context Learning?
   • Feb 2023What Learning Algorithm Is In-Context Learning? Linear-Models Investigations
   • Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
   • Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
   • Mar 2023Solving a Machine-Learning Mystery
   • Apr 2023GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A

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3. 1028
   

   BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models

   Junnan Li et al. · 2023

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   • Jan 2023Blip-2
   • Mar 2023Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object
   • Apr 2023MiniGPT-4
   • Apr 2023MiniGPT-4
   • May 2023MaMMUT: A simple vision-encoder text-decoder architecture for multimodal tasks

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4. 1029
   

   DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

   DeepSeek-AI et al. · 2026

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   • Jun 2026Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math
   • Jun 2026Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math
   • Jul 2026GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
   • Sep 2026DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

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5. 1030
   

   SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?

   Samuel Miserendino et al. · 2025

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   • Feb 2025SWE-Lancer: a benchmark of freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork
   • Feb 2025SWE-Lancer: Can LLMs Earn $1M from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?
   • Feb 2025OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
   • Feb 2025GPT-4.5
   • Mar 2025Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
   • May 2025Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it

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6. 1031
   

   Theoretical limitations of multi-layer Transformer

   Lijie Chen et al. · 2024

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   • Jan 2025Theoretical limitations of multi-layer Transformer
   • Feb 2025Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
   • Apr 2025Reasoning models don't always say what they think
   • Apr 2025LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
   • May 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

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7. 1032
   

   Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs

   Keno Fischer, Elliot Saba · 2018

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   • Oct 2018Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs
   • Oct 2018Compiling Julia to TPUs [pdf]
   • Oct 2018Automatic Compilation of Julia Programs and Generic ML Models to Cloud TPUs
   • Jan 2019High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections
   • Feb 2019Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
   • Feb 2019Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN
   • Jul 2019A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing

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8. 1033
   

   Artistic style transfer for videos

   Manuel Ruder et al. · 2016

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   • May 2016Artistic Style Transfer for Video
   • Jul 2016Artistic style transfer for videos
   • May 2016Artistic style transfer for videos [video]
   • May 2016Artistic style transfer for videos
   • Jun 2016DeepArt.io introduces style transfer for videos
   • Jul 2016Prisma: neural-style instagram filters

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9. 1034
   

   A Comparison of the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Integration Technology with Nvidia GPU-based Systems for Artificial Intelligence

   Yudhishthira Kundu et al. · 2025

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   • Mar 2025Cerebras Wafer-Scale Integration vs. Nvidia GPU-Based Systems for AI
   • May 2025Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
   • Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
   • Oct 2025Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G
   • Oct 2025Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

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10. 1035
    

    Learning to Search Better Than Your Teacher

    Kai-Wei Chang et al. · 2015

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    • Mar 2016Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
    • Mar 2016FlappyBird hack using Deep Q-Learning
    • May 2016SyntaxNet: Neural Models of Syntax
    • Jun 2016Intro to Hidden Markov Models (2010) [pdf]

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11. 1036
    

    Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

    Shaoqing Ren et al. · 2015

    Hacker News threads

    • Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
    • Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
    • Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
    • Nov 2017Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice

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12. 1037
    

    Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

    Charles Ye et al. · 2026

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    • Apr 2026Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK
    • Jul 2026The Session You Cannot take with you
    • Aug 2026Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
    • Aug 2026Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

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13. 1038
    

    LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

    Philippe Laban et al. · 2025

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    • May 2025LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
    • May 2025The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
    • Jul 2025The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
    • Dec 2025The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

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14. 1039
    

    Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact

    Massimo Bartoletti et al. · 2017

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    • Jun 2017Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact
    • Jun 2017Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
    • Aug 2017Ethereum Scam Database
    • Oct 2017The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything

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15. 1040
    

    Accessing GPT-4 level Mathematical Olympiad Solutions via Monte Carlo Tree Self-refine with LLaMa-3 8B

    Di Zhang et al. · 2024

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    • Jun 2024Accessing Math Solutions via Monte Carlo Self-Refine with LLaMa-3 8B
    • Jun 2024AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
    • Aug 2024Ask HN: Research Papers on Prompt Engineering?
    • Sep 2024Reflection 70B, the top open-source model

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16. 1041
    

    A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property

    Jakob Steininger, Sergey Yurkevich · 2025

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    • Aug 2025A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property
    • Aug 2025A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property
    • Oct 2025First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself
    • Nov 2025Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
    • Dec 2025Noperthedron is not Rupert (can't fit through itself) [video]

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17. 1042
    

    An Empirical Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling

    Shaojie Bai et al. · 2018

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    • Mar 2018TCNs are better than RNNs
    • Mar 2018Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling
    • Aug 2018An Empirical Evaluation of Generic CNN and RNN for Sequence Modeling
    • Jun 2018Keras vs PyTorch
    • Aug 2018Ask HN: Convolutional VS Recurrent/LSTM/GRU neural networks
    • Dec 2018What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification

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18. 1043
    

    SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous Integration

    Jialong Chen et al. · 2026

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    • Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
    • Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
    • Mar 2026Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects
    • May 2026Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
    • Jun 2026GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

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19. 1044
    

    First Proof

    Mohammed Abouzaid et al. · 2026

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    • Feb 2026First Proof
    • Feb 2026First Proof
    • Feb 2026Gemini 3 Deep Think
    • Mar 2026A Methodological Critique of "First Proof" (Abouzaid et al., 2026)
    • May 2026A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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20. 1045
    

    Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform

    Haitham Hassanieh et al. · 2012

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    • Dec 2013Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform
    • Jan 2012The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
    • Mar 2012A speed-up in Fast Fourier Transforms could change the modern world
    • May 2012Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology

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21. 1046
    

    There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

    Jamie Simon et al. · 2026

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    • Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
    • May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
    • Jun 2026How LLMs Work
    • Sep 2026The Millennium Problems for Biology

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22. 1047
    

    NO Need to Worry about Adversarial Examples in Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles

    Jiajun Lu et al. · 2017

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    • Jul 2017NO Need to Worry about Adversarial Examples for Autonomous Vehicles
    • Jul 2017Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models
    • Aug 2017Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms
    • Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work

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23. 1048
    

    Tensor Logic: The Language of AI

    Pedro Domingos · 2025

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    • Oct 2025Tensor Logic: The Language of AI
    • Oct 2025Tensor Logic: The Language of AI
    • Oct 2025Towards Logic: The Language of AI
    • Jan 2026Ask HN: What do you plan to read in 2026?
    • Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
    • Jul 2026Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

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24. 1049
    

    Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less

    Silei Xu et al. · 2025

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    • Mar 2025Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
    • Feb 2025Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
    • Mar 2025Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
    • Mar 2025Sketch-of-Thought: Efficient LLM Reasoning
    • May 2025Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
    • Dec 2025Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

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25. 1050
    

    Position: Categorical Deep Learning is an Algebraic Theory of All Architectures

    Bruno Gavranović et al. · 2024

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    • Apr 2024Categorical Deep Learning: An Algebraic Theory of Architectures
    • Apr 2024Symbolica hopes to head off the AI arms race by betting on symbolic models
    • Jun 2024Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
    • Aug 2024Alexander Grothendieck

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