Hacker Papers
- 126
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2012Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Aug 2012Higgs Papers Out
- Dec 2019New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
- Jan 2021Are Experts Real?
- Jul 2023Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
- Oct 2024Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
- Sep 2026DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
- Oct 2026CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
- 127
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
- Mar 2017Baidu Deep Voice Explained: Part 1 – the Inference Pipeline
- Oct 2017Finding Waldo Using Semantic Segmentation and Tiramisu
- May 2018Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
- Oct 2018A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
- Apr 2019Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?
- Aug 2022Show HN: Nevermind XOR – Deep Learning Has an Issue with Sin
- Jan 2026Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
- 128
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2016Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
- Aug 2019Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
- Sep 2016Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
- Oct 2016[MIT Lecture] Connections between physics and deep learning
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- May 2017Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Oct 2018How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- 129
Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
- Mar 2012ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
- Aug 2015Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
- Jun 2017Why is the Internet so Slow?
- Jan 2018Network Latencies and Speed of Light
- Feb 2021The Dunant subsea cable
- Nov 2021Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly
- Aug 2024DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- Oct 2025A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
- 130
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015New, more powerful Google Translate app
- Aug 2015Exploiting Similarities Among Languages for Machine Translation (2013)
- May 2016My path to OpenAI
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- Dec 2020AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
- Jun 2023What Are Embeddings?
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Apr 2025The Leaderboard Illusion
- 131
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2013The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
- Apr 2015Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
- Apr 2016Interview with Scott Aaronson
- Sep 2017Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"
- Jul 2019Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (2017)
- Mar 2023Not by AI
- Mar 2023A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Jul 2024A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications
- 132
Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
- Oct 2018Neuroscientist found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
- Dec 2021Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed
- Feb 2022Google Search Is Dying
- Nov 2022Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
- May 2023Reddit comments and submissions from 2005-06 to 2022-12 collected by Pushshift
- Dec 2023At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
- Aug 2024Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
- 133
There are no particles, there are only fields
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jun 2024There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Jul 2026There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
- Sep 2016Struggles with the Continuum
- Nov 2017Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (2011)
- Jul 2019What’s Going on During Wave Function ‘Collapse’
- Jul 2019The Trouble with Many Worlds
- Dec 2020Thirty Years of ‘Against Measurement’
- Sep 2024What Is a Particle? (2020)
- Feb 2026Cosmologically Unique IDs
- Jun 2026How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
- 134
Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold
- Feb 2016Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
- Mar 2016CS143: Compilers (2011)
- Oct 2016How to speed up the Rust compiler
- Dec 2016Nectar: A Native JavaScript Compiler Inspired by Crystal Lang and Nim Lang
- Oct 2021Jitterdämmerung (2015, Updated 2021)
- Aug 2022Big changes ahead for Deno
- Nov 2022More evidence for problems in VM warmup
- Sep 2023ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++
- 135
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
- Jun 2025Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt
- Jun 2025Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- Jun 2025League of Professional System Administrators - Board to Dissolve Organization
- Jun 2025Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
- Jun 2025Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI?
- Jan 2026Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant
- Mar 2026747s and Coding Agents
- Apr 2026The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
- Apr 2026AI chatbots could be making you stupider
- Jun 2026Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
- 136
Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
- Jan 2023Stable Diffusion Memorizes Training Points
- Feb 2023The AI Crowd Is Mad
- Feb 2023An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit
- Mar 2023Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive data
- Apr 2023Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs
- Jun 2023Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
- Nov 2023Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI
- Jan 2024Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- Jul 2025Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
- 137
Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2023Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model (2019)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Nov 2019AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
- Aug 2020AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
- 138
Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
- Sep 2016Google's Neural Machine Translation: Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines
- Sep 2016Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
- Oct 2016Learning Reinforcement Learning, with Code, Exercises, and Solutions
- Nov 2016Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
- Feb 2017Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
- Mar 2018Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
- 139
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
- Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
- Feb 2018Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI
- Nov 2019John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
- Feb 2023Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets Is Practical
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- May 2025Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
- 140
Formal Algorithms for Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Formal Algorithms for Transformers
- Jan 2023The Transformer Family
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Apr 2023What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
- May 2023Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Dec 2023"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
- Jan 2024Relearning math as an adult
- Jun 2026Can I Buy Your KV Cache?
- 141
LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
- Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
- Feb 2022Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ”
- Jun 2022LaMDA is not sentient
- Jun 2022Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview [pdf]
- Jul 2022Open-Source LaMDA Model
- Sep 2022Character.ai
- Feb 2023Ask HN: Does Google use the text inside gdocs and Gmail for training AI models?
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- 142
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Byte latent transformer: Patches scale better than tokens (2024)
- Dec 2024Tokenisation Is NP-Complete
- Dec 2024Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
- Feb 2025Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
- May 2025Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020)
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
- Jun 2026Data Compression Explained
- Sep 2026When did Google get so weird?
- Oct 2026Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes
- 143
The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2026The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
- Oct 2023LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Nov 2023Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
- Jan 2024New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
- Jul 2024Mistral NeMo
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jul 2026A global workspace in language models
- Aug 2026Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
- 144
Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Faster Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Jan 2023What a transformer can NOT do
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Apr 2023There Is No A.I
- Jun 2024Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
- Jul 2024My Python code is a neural network
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Feb 2026Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
- 145
FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2022Flash Attention accelerates GPT2 3x
- Apr 2023Flash Attention
- May 2023FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness
- Dec 2022GPT3/DALL-E2 in Discord, chat like ChatGPT, generate images, and more
- Apr 2023The Coming of Local LLMs
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- May 2023
- Dec 2023LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
- Feb 2024LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
- Mar 2024Show HN: Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA
- Apr 2025400x AI Acceleration
- 146
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2016New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything
- Oct 2017The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Jun 2026Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
- 147
Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2022WebGPT: Browser-assisted question-answering with human feedback
- Feb 2022AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
- Jul 2022RETRO is fast
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Dec 2022How Does GPT Obtain Its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models
- Jan 2023Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy [DeepMind, 2022]
- May 2023PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
- Nov 2024LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns
- 148
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
- 149
The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying
- Sep 2023The Internal State of a Large Language Model Knows When Its Lying
- May 2023The internal state of an LLM knows when it is lying
- Jun 2023Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data
- Aug 2023How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
- May 2024Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
- Aug 2024LLMs know more than what they say
- Sep 2024AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
- Sep 2024Is telling a model to "not hallucinate" absurd?
- Oct 2024LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
- Feb 2026Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
- 150
Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
- Jun 2023Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
- Jun 2023Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
- Jun 2023Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”
- Jun 2023Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content
- Dec 2023Will scaling work?
- Jan 2024Chess-GPT's Internal World Model
- Jan 2024New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
- Mar 2024Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
- Feb 2025Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
- Oct 2025OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
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