Hacker Papers
- 126
Are Transformers universal approximators of sequence-to-sequence functions?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
- Mar 2024OpenAI – transformer debugger release
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- 127
YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
- Dec 2016YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
- Nov 2017An intuitive explanation of the SSD MultiBox object detection technique
- Mar 2020The End of Starsky Robotics
- 128
On Large-Batch Training for Deep Learning: Generalization Gap and Sharp Minima
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Mar 2017Why is so much memory needed for deep neural networks?
- Jun 2017Facebook Trains ImageNet in 1 Hour
- Dec 2017An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)
- Dec 2017Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
- 129
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
- 130
A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
- Aug 2016A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
- Feb 2018Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
- May 2018Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
- May 2019Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
- Dec 2020Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- 131
Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Oct 2016All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- Dec 2023Direct initialization of transformers using larger pretrained ones
- 132
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf]
- Oct 2015Neural Artistic Captions
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
- Oct 2016Deepgram – Find Damning Soundbites
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018Asking the Right Questions About AI
- 133
One Model To Learn Them All
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017One Model to Learn Them All
- Oct 2024One Model to Learn Them All
- Jul 2017One Model to Learn Them All
- Jun 2017Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all’
- Jul 2017The future of deep learning
- Nov 2017Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
- Mar 2019Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
- 134
Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Dec 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics – NN that can do advanced math [Facebook]
- Jan 2020Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2020Differential Equations with Transformers: Deep Learning for Symbolic Math
- May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
- May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
- Aug 2020Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
- May 2022Learning to think critically about machine learning
- Mar 2023The Age of AI has begun
- 135
Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type [a Password,] Acoustic Eavesdropping in VOIP
- Oct 2016Don’t Skype and Type—Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP [pdf]
- Oct 2016Don't Skype and Type Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP
- Sep 2018How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
- Aug 2019Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
- Apr 2020When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
- Aug 2022Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio
- Dec 2023Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
- 136
Wasserstein GAN
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Wasserstein GAN
- Feb 2017Wasserstein GAN
- May 2017Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
- Aug 2017Do I really have to cite an arXiv paper?
- Apr 2018Building a Content-Based Search Engine IV: Earth Mover's Distance
- Dec 2018Machine learning is not just glorified statistics
- Apr 2019Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks
- 137
Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians
Hacker News threads
- 138
Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2017Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
- Sep 2017Machine learning optimization of machine learning architecture
- Jul 2017Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
- Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Nov 2017Building A.I. That Can Build A.I
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- Oct 2018Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees
- 139
Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learning
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learning [pdf]
- Feb 2018NLP concepts with spaCy tutorial
- Mar 2018Applied Category Theory
- Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
- Sep 2019The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
- 140
Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 141
Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016DeepArt.io introduces style transfer for videos
- Jul 2016Prisma: neural-style instagram filters
- Mar 2017Deep Learning enables hearing aid wearers to pick out a voice in a crowded room
- Jul 2017Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky
- Oct 2017Show HN: Paint yourself in the style of classic art, in your browser
- 142
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
- Jun 2018Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Aug 2021Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
- 143
Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Ask HN: Dataset Cleaning Tips
- Sep 2019AI competitions don’t produce useful models
- Feb 2021DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training
- Apr 2021Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- 144
Generalization in Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Generalization in Deep Learning [pdf]
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Software 2.0
- Dec 2017Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
- Apr 2021Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
- Jun 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
- 145
The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Jun 2020Using machine learning to classify story arcs into six basic shapes
- Mar 2018The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Aug 2016Text Summarization with TensorFlow
- Oct 2018Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types
- Jan 2019At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)
- Aug 2020The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters
- Nov 2023Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots
- 146
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Jul 2020You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
- Mar 2016Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Oct 2017Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision
- Apr 2019YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Oct 2025Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
- 147
TinyLFU: A Highly Efficient Cache Admission Policy
Hacker News threads
- 148
BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions don't affect Quicksort
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions Don't Affect Quicksort
- Jun 2017Pattern-defeating quicksort
- Aug 2018On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort
- Jul 2021Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
- May 2023Ask HN: What is new in Algorithms / Data Structures these days?
- Jun 202310~17x faster than what? A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)
- 149
Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2019Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
- Jul 2019BERT's success due to 'spurious statistical cues'
- Jul 2019Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
- Jul 2019A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
- Aug 2019AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
- Nov 2019Douglas Hofstadter: The Shallowness of Google Translate (2018)
- Dec 2023Ask HN: What is the current state of "logical" AI?
- May 2024How does AI impact my job as a programmer?
- 150
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in NLI (2019)
- Jul 2019Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
- Jul 2020Why GPT-3 Matters
- Aug 2021Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
- Oct 2021Dense Vectors: Capturing Meaning with Code
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
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