Hacker Papers
- 126
Textbooks Are All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2023Textbooks is all you need: new LLM 51% HumanEval. Better one >10x more params
- Jun 2023The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
- Jul 2023Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
- Sep 2023Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective
- Oct 2023Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
- Nov 2023OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition
- Jul 2024Apple says it uses no Nvidia GPUs to train its AI models
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet
- 127
Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) for Precise Zero-Shot Retrieval [pdf]
- Aug 2026Hypothetical Document Embeddings
- Jan 2023Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval Without Relevance Labels
- Jan 2023How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette
- Feb 2023I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation
- Mar 2023
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Dec 2023Build a search engine, not a vector DB
- May 2024Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
- Sep 2024Contextual Retrieval
- Aug 2026Don't classify, hallucinate!
- 128
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?
- 129
Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look
- Sep 2022Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look (2014)
- Aug 2026Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look
- Jul 2016There Is No Distinctly Scientific Method
- Oct 2016So You Want to Learn Physics
- Jan 2017Why read old philosophy?
- Nov 2017Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire
- Jan 2022Why Quantum Mechanics?
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- May 2024The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
- Jun 2025Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018)
- 130
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"
- 131
LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2025LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Jul 2023LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models
- Mar 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Can tokenizers go from fixed length tokens to varying length?
- Jul 2025Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
- Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
- 132
Qwen3 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2026Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
- May 2026An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
- Jul 2026What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
- Aug 2026Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model
- 133
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
Hacker News threads
- 134
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
- 135
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2016Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
- Jan 2019Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- May 2014Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
- Dec 2014Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
- Aug 2015Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”
- Aug 2015Using Doc2Vec to Suggest SubReddits
- Nov 2015Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
- Mar 2018Understanding word vectors
- Dec 2023Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013
- Aug 2026Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
- 136
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
- Apr 2025Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4 (2023)
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Plugins
- Mar 2023Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
- Mar 2023HN thread 35350030
- Apr 2023The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
- Apr 2023AGI Is Not Chess Bots – They Will Replace Your Jobs
- Jul 2023GPT-4 API General Availability
- Jul 2024ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021
- Aug 2026Karpathy's Pelican
- 137
Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
- Feb 2025Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
- Mar 2026Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
- Apr 2026System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Aug 2026AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
- 138
Featherweight Go
Hacker News threads
- May 2020Featherweight Go
- May 2020Featherweight Go (A generics design for Go)
- Dec 2021Featherweight Go [pdf]
- Jun 2020Philip Wadler's talk on generics for Go (“Featherweight Go”)
- Jun 2020The Next Step for Generics
- Nov 2020Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
- Jan 2021A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
- May 2021Oxide: The Essence of Rust (2020)
- Mar 2022How generics are implemented in Go 1.18
- Nov 2024Borgo Programming Language
- Aug 2026Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
- 139
A theory of regularity structures
Hacker News threads
- 140
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
- Jun 2025LLM's Illusion of Alignment
- Jun 2025LLM's Illusion of Alignment
- Aug 2025Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
- Oct 2025It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
- Nov 2025DeepSeek writes insecure code if prompt mentions topics restricted in China
- May 2026Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas"
- Jun 2026Where every major LLM stands politically
- Jul 2026Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
- 141
The Benefits of a Concise Chain of Thought on Problem-Solving in Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 142
Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Nov 2023Struggles with the Continuum
- Jan 2024Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Jul 2026How real are real numbers? (2004)
- 143
Logical Induction
Hacker News threads
- 144
Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025Does RL Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
- Jun 2025Does Reinforcement Learning Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs?
- May 2025GRPO experiment - I trained a Language Model to schedule events
- Mar 2026Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
- Jul 2026Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
- 145
BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023BitNet: Scaling 1-Bit Transformers for Large Language Models
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
- Jun 2024Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- May 2025Towards the Cutest Neural Network
- Mar 2026Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
- Jul 2026Neutrino-1 8B
- 146
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
- Jun 2017Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)
- Jul 2026Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Oct 2014The octave – history of a discovery
- Mar 2016Show HN: 19 Tone Equal Temperament Piano in Web Audio
- Sep 2016Music theory for nerds
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- Oct 2016Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
- May 2020Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company
- 147
AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining
Hacker News threads
- 148
SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long-Horizon Tasks
- Apr 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long-Horizon Task
- Jul 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade over Long, Iterative Tasks
- Mar 2026Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
- Mar 2026AI Can Write Code, but Can It Build Software?
- May 2026I'm going back to writing code by hand
- May 2026Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook
- Jul 2026Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?
- Jul 2026Control the Ideas, Not the Code
- Jul 2026Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
- Jul 2026Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
- 149
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2025Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
- Dec 2025Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
- Dec 2025Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
- Dec 2025No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
- Jan 2026TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
- Jul 2026Our position on open-weights models
- 150
Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jun 2019Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017)
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jul 2017Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning
- Apr 2018Skynet Today – accessible and informed coverage of AI hype and panic
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Jul 2023FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm
- Dec 2023Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
- Dec 2023Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE
- Jun 2024AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
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