Hacker Papers
- 101
Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jan 2023ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model
- Feb 2023Microsoft Adds ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing Search Engine
- Feb 2023ArxivGPT: Chrome extension that summarizes arxived research papers using ChatGPT
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- Feb 2023ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube
- Jul 2024ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
- Apr 2025GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions
- 102
Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Hacker News threads
- May 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Apr 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Jun 2025Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
- Oct 2025A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jun 2026GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
- Aug 2026Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful
- Sep 2026OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
- Sep 2026How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Sep 2026Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Sep 2026Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
- 103
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- Mar 2024How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
- Mar 2024How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
- Mar 2024Can Demis Hassabis save Google?
- Apr 2024Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
- May 2024The "Chain of Thought" Delusions
- Aug 2024OpenAI shows 'Strawberry' to feds, races to launch it
- Sep 2024Learning to Reason with LLMs
- Sep 2024g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains
- 104
Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- 105
Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
- Apr 2023Hyena a more efficient convolutional LLM when compared to GPT
- Mar 2023Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
- Mar 2023CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers With Conditional Computation
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Apr 2023New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it
- May 2023OpenAI's plans according to sama
- Sep 2023The Eleuther AI Mafia
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- 106
Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
- Jul 2025Playing with Open Source LLMs
- Feb 2026Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
- Apr 2026We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- 107
Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents
Hacker News threads
- May 2024Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents
- Jan 2025Show HN: Gemini 2 with unrestricted code execution
- Jul 2025Tools: Code Is All You Need
- Aug 2025Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
- Dec 2025Anthropic acquires Bun
- Aug 2026Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"
- Aug 2026Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"
- Aug 2026Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls"
- 108
xVal: A Continuous Numerical Tokenization for Scientific Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Single Digit Tokenization improves LLM Math abilities by up to 70x
- Oct 2023Single Digit tokenization improves LLM math abilities by up to 70x
- Nov 2023Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
- Nov 2023Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- Nov 2023Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough
- Mar 2024Integer Tokenization Is Insane (2023)
- Sep 2024AGI is far from inevitable
- Oct 2024Probably pay attention to tokenizers
- 109
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- May 2019Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
- Nov 2024Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials (2018) [pdf]
- Jul 2019Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
- Jul 2019Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
- May 2022Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
- Jul 2022Notation for Differentiation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2024On Leibniz Notation
- Jan 2025Multiplicative Infinitesimals
- 110
The Argument against Quantum Computers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]
- Oct 2019Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
- Dec 2019Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
- Oct 2021Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
- Feb 2023Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
- Dec 2024The Google Willow Thing
- Dec 2024The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
- 111
twister - a P2P microblogging platform
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2013Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT
- Dec 2013Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
- Jan 2015Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
- Mar 2015Twister – Decentralized p2p microblogging
- Dec 2015Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
- Jun 2018Show HN: P2P decentralized messaging application over Bitcoin Cash
- 112
Deduplicating Training Data Makes Language Models Better
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
- Aug 2022Chinchilla's Wild Implications
- Aug 2022Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
- Nov 2022Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Copilot class action?
- Jun 2024Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl
- Jan 202530% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
- 113
Alignment faking in large language models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
- Feb 2025Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
- Feb 2025Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
- Aug 2025Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
- Feb 2026An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
- Mar 2026Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
- 114
AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026Go is the best language for agents
- Apr 2026Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- May 2026If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
- Jul 2026How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
- Jul 2026Elixir-lang.org has a new design
- Sep 2026Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
- 115
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
Hacker News threads
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Jul 2023Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
- Nov 2023Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee
- Dec 2023Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Jan 2024Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- 116
Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD
- Aug 2023Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Jul 2023AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- Oct 2023Why Generative AI Is Currently Doomed
- Apr 2024Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
- Jul 2024AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 117
MIP*=RE
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020MIP*=Re
- Aug 2021MIP* = Re
- Jan 2020Recent groundbreaking result in complexity theory: MIP*=RE
- Jan 2020'Remarkable' MIP*=RE proof describes how to solve seemingly impossible problem
- Mar 2020Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
- Mar 2020Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
- Apr 2020Mathematicians try to understand how CS proof solves Connes embedding conjecture
- Mar 2023Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days?
- Aug 2023Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
- 118
Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
- Sep 2020Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
- Sep 2020At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold
- Sep 2020The Collatz Conjecture: the simple math problem we still can’t solve
- Nov 2020AI Expert Roadmap
- Jan 2021DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
- Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
- Jul 2024AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
- 119
Why Language Models Hallucinate
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Mar 2026Why Language Models Hallucinate (2025)
- Sep 2025OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable
- Sep 2025What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
- Oct 2025GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
- Dec 2025Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
- Feb 2026Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
- May 2026OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable (Sept. 2025)
- 120
Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Improving Text Rendering in Image Generation Models
- Dec 2022What ChatGPT Can't Do
- Feb 2023Illusion Diffusion: Optical Illusions Using Stable Diffusion
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
- Oct 2023DALL-E 3: Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
- Mar 2024Ask HN: Why can't image generation models spell?
- 121
Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023LLMs cannot self-correct reasoning yet
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Oct 2023GPT-4 Understands
- Apr 2024The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
- Aug 2024OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- Mar 2025Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
- Aug 2026Dutch lawyer fined €2,300 for using AI-hallucinated citation
- 122
Were RNNs All We Needed?
Hacker News threads
- 123
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Aug 2026Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Apr 2025Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
- Aug 2025Do we understand how neural networks work?
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 124
More Agents Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
- Feb 2024More Agents Is All You Need
- Feb 2024More Agents Is All You Need
- Mar 2024Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark
- Apr 2024Storm: LLM system that researches a topic and generates full-length wiki article
- Aug 2024AI agents but they're working in big tech
- Sep 2024Learning to Reason with LLMs
- Jan 2025Agents Are Not Enough
- 125
Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
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