Hacker Papers
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Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
- Sep 2026Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
- May 2025Text Embeddings are All Alike
- Dec 2025The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- Jan 2026Moltbook
- Mar 2026
- Jul 2026Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- 102
Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Jun 2021Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 know your phone number?
- Feb 2021Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
- Jul 2021All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
- Jun 2022Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
- Apr 2023Record Labels Panic as A.I. Generated Song Becomes Hit Single
- Sep 2026“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
- 103
Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
Hacker News threads
- 104
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
Hacker News threads
- May 2020GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Jun 2024Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Nov 2024Language models are few-shot learners (2020)
- Jun 2020GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
- Jul 2020Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3
- Oct 2020AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
- Oct 2022Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
- Feb 2023Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
- May 2023Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Parkinson's Biomarker
- Nov 2023Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- 105
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
- Dec 2022Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Jul 2022Am I doing it wrong? (OpenAI test)
- Mar 2023Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Knowledge Pollution
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Aug 2023GPT-4 Can't Reason
- Sep 2024Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning
- Oct 2025Ortega hypothesis
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- 106
Large Language Models as Markov Chains
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Large Language Models as Markov Chains
- Oct 2024LLMs as Markov Chains
- Oct 2024Large Language Models as Markov Chains
- Jul 2025Problem solving using Markov chains (2007) [pdf]
- Sep 2025The wall confronting large language models
- Oct 2025BERT is just a single text diffusion step
- Nov 2025AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
- Dec 2025Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
- May 2026Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems
- Jun 2026How LLMs Work
- Sep 2026The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
- 107
Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Give Me FP32 or Give Me Death?
- Sep 2026Understanding, Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
- Jun 2025TPU Deep Dive
- Jul 2025LLMs as Compilers
- Jul 2025Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
- Feb 2026LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
- Mar 2026Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack
- Aug 2026What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
- 108
Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026DeepSeek: Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup
- Jan 2026Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup
- Jan 2026RAM Coffers– I built conditional memory for LLMs 27 days before DeepSeek'sEngram
- Jan 2026Subject-based weight routing for LLMs (27 days before DeepSeek Engram)
- Mar 2026Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs
- Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
- Sep 2026Show HN: Engram – Shared procedural runbook memory for AI coding agents via MCP
- 109
The Mathematical Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
- Apr 2009MUH: The Universe is a Mathematical Structure
- Jan 2018The Mathematical Universe (2007)
- Oct 2010USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' (Feb 2010)
- May 2014When does a physical system compute?
- Oct 2014The Grand Illusion: Does time have a future?
- Nov 2016Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring
- Mar 2019Sub-Acute Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking
- Jun 2022Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read?
- Aug 2022Why does anything exist?
- Sep 2026Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
- 110
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- May 2024Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Apr 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?
- Feb 2023It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World
- May 2023LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: Stanford researchers
- Jul 2023Llama 2 – Meta AI
- Nov 2023Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
- Mar 2024“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study
- Feb 2025Understanding Reasoning LLMs
- Aug 2026Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
- 111
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (2023)
- Jul 2023Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
- Aug 2023Language models use long contexts
- Jul 2023Llama 32K Context Released by Together AI
- Aug 2023What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Oct 2023Microsoft says GPT 3.5 has 20B parameters?
- Nov 2023Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale
- Apr 2024LLMs and the Harry Potter problem
- Jul 2026OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
- Aug 2026Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
- 112
LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023Apple Announces LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
- Dec 2023Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
- Dec 2023Show HN: Emu2 – A Gemini-like open-source 37B Multimodal Model
- Dec 2023Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
- Mar 2026Qwen3.5-397B at 4.74 tok/s using 5.9GB RAM
- Mar 2026iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
- Aug 2026New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
- 113
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
- 114
Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction
Hacker News threads
- 115
Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
- Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Dec 2017Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js
- Apr 2022Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories
- Mar 2023Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?
- Mar 2026NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
- Aug 2026OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
- 116
DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Hacker News threads
- 117
People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can detect AI-generated text
- Jan 2025People who use ChatGPT for writing are robust detectors of AI-generated text
- May 2026People who use ChatGPT for writing are accurate detectors of AI text (2025)
- Nov 2025When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug
- Apr 2026Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- May 2026Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
- Jun 2026"No, I swear I wrote this."
- Jul 2026Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
- Aug 2026Where .env Went Wrong
- Aug 2026I'm Becoming AI-Blind
- 118
Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Mar 2017In search of a simple consensus algorithm
- Mar 2017Paxos in 25 Lines
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- Jan 2025Did we miss P In CAP? Partial Progress Conjecture under Asynchrony
- Aug 2026TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
- 119
TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods
Hacker News threads
- 120
Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
- Jul 2024The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
- Jul 2024Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'
- Aug 2024Self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction (in JavaScript)
- Sep 2024Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
- Nov 2024OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
- Nov 2025Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
- Aug 2026The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
- Aug 2026Computational Life Reactor (Based on Brainfuck)
- 121
Emergent Representations of Program Semantics in Language Models Trained on Programs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs
- May 2023Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs
- Jun 2023Evidence of Meaning in Large Language Models Trained on Programs
- May 2023Governance of Superintelligence
- Jun 2023The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Aug 2026If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?
- 122
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Apr 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Apr 2023Stanford's Groundbreaking AI Study Simulates Authentic Human Behavior
- Apr 2023We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI
- Jul 2023Roleplaying with LLMs
- Sep 2023Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations
- Oct 2023Lamini LLM Finetuning on AMD ROCm: A Technical Recipe
- Nov 2024Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
- Jan 2026
- Aug 2026Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
- 123
A Watermark for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Aug 2026A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Jan 2023A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Jan 2023New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
- Mar 2023Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)
- Jul 2023A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure from the White House
- Jul 2024Meta Launches AI Studio in US
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- 124
Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
- Mar 2023Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time
- Apr 2023Show HN: Pledge Your Human-Made Content
- Jul 2023OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
- Apr 2024OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights
- Sep 2025Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- 125
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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