Hacker Papers
- 101
The Parallelism Tradeoff: Limitations of Log-Precision Transformers
Hacker News threads
- May 2023The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
- May 2023A Logic for Expressing Transformers
- Mar 2024“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study
- Jun 2024The illusion of state in state-space models
- Sep 2024Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems
- 102
Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
Hacker News threads
- 103
On the design of text editors
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024On the design of text editors (2020)
- Mar 2022On the Design of Text Editors
- Dec 2020On the Design of Text Editors
- Mar 2022Apple Mac Studio
- Jul 2023Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
- Apr 2024Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
- Oct 2025Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
- 104
If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Nov 2022If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (2021)
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Feb 2021Once we can see them, it’s too late
- Sep 2021If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- Jun 2024Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites
- Nov 2024Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress
- 105
Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithms can Inform Understanding and Reduce the Spread of Misinformation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Algorithms to Understand and Reduce Misinformation
- Oct 2022Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithm-Powered Misinfo Annotations
- Nov 2022White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note
- Feb 2023The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research from Elon Musk
- Feb 2024Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)
- Jan 2025Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
- 106
Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones
Hacker News threads
- 107
AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Scratch
- May 2020Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Primitive Mathematical Operations
- Apr 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Scratch
- Mar 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch
- Apr 2020Google Engineers Mutate AI to Make Systems Evolve Faster Than We Can Code Them
- May 2020Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]
- Jul 2020AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns
- 108
Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Sep 2020Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess with AlphaZero
- Sep 2020Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- Dec 2020Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
- Aug 2021Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
- Nov 2022Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
- Jan 2024I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
- 109
Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation
Hacker News threads
- 110
Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Jun 2021DeDLOC – Distributed Deep Learning in Open Collaborations
- Dec 2023Is there a SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?
- Jan 2024Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Crowdsourced AI Training?
- 111
Learning to summarize from human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Sep 2020Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Apr 2023Google DeepMind
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- 112
Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin – the profile of a genius
- Feb 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Oct 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Feb 2024Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
- Apr 2024New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Apr 2026Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator
- 113
Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Will we run out of data to train LLMs?
- Nov 2022We might run out of language data to train ML models soon [pdf]
- Dec 2022An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning
- Dec 2022Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
- Dec 2023Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
- Sep 2025Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 114
GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022End-to-end deep learning methods beat production weather forecast accuracy
- Jan 2023GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
- Aug 2023Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens
- Dec 2023Predict the next frame. Results of training a transformer on "visual sentences"
- Dec 2025NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models
- Aug 2026DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
- 115
Learned Indexes for a Google-scale Disk-based Database
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024Learned Indexes for a Google-Scale Disk-Based Database
- Jan 2021PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
- Feb 2022Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jun 2025The probability of a hash collision (2022)
- 116
Locally Typical Sampling
Hacker News threads
- 117
An Overview on IEEE 802.11bf: WLAN Sensing
Hacker News threads
- 118
YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2020YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
- Apr 2020YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
- May 2020Training YOLOv4 on a Custom Dataset
- Jun 2020YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
- Dec 2021Pine64 and Radxa's new Pi CM4-compatible boards
- May 2022DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
- 119
It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
- Oct 2022It's time to replace TCP in the Datacenter
- Nov 2022Moving past TCP in the data center, part 2
- Feb 2023Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers?
- May 2023Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
- Oct 2023HN thread 38049303
- 120
Forecasting timelines of quantum computing
Hacker News threads
- 121
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers
- Mar 2021Quantum physics needs complex numbers (2021)
- Mar 2021Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
- Aug 2021Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
- Apr 2023Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers
- Feb 2026Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers
- 122
Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle
Hacker News threads
- 123
Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Dec 2022Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
- Feb 2023Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT
- May 2023Giving GPT “Infinite” Knowledge
- 124
Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs
Hacker News threads
- 125
Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention
Hacker News threads
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