Hacker Papers
- 126
Towards Understanding Grokking: An Effective Theory of Representation Learning
Hacker News threads
- 127
Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Can large language models reason about medical questions?
- Jan 2023GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say
- Jan 2023Google and DeepMind just launched MedPaLM, a large language model
- Jan 2023An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- 128
Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on superconducting quantum processor
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Jan 2023Scott Aaronson weighs in on purported quantum factoring breakthrough
- Jan 2023Factorization (DCQF) of a 48-bit integer using 10 trapped-ion qubits
- Aug 2023
- May 2024Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
- 129
Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes
- Jan 2020Dark Patterns After the GDPR
- Jan 2020Dark Patterns in Consent Pop-Ups
- Jul 2020Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
- Mar 2021Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence
- Mar 2021Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence
- Mar 2021Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence
- Jun 2024Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
- 130
Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity In Medical Images
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity in Medical Images
- Aug 2021Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity in Medical Images [pdf]
- Aug 2021AI has the worst superpower medical racism
- Sep 2021AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
- Sep 2021AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
- Sep 2021AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
- Dec 2021Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
- 131
Make-A-Scene: Scene-Based Text-to-Image Generation with Human Priors
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2022Make-a-Scene: Scene-Based Text-to-Image Generation with Human Priors
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Apr 2022Playing with DALL-E 2
- Apr 2022A few things to try with DALL·E
- May 2022My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
- Jul 2022Meta's Make-a-Scene with AI = DALL-E with creative control via simple sketch
- Jul 2022AI image generation: more creative control
- 132
Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)
- Nov 2022Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
- Feb 2023Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
- Feb 202360 Nations agree to regulate AI in the military before it destroys the world
- Apr 2023Ask HN: It is important”, a side effect of Transformers attention?
- Nov 2023In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
- 133
Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System (2020)
- Feb 2021Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
- Dec 2020Show HN: Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Nov 2022Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
- Sep 2025What Is Complexity in Chess?
- 134
Tabular Data: Deep Learning is Not All You Need
Hacker News threads
- 135
Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Diffusion Transformer
- Feb 2024Sora: Creating video from text
- Feb 2024Stable Diffusion 3
- May 2025Gemini Diffusion
- Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models
- 136
Mission Apollo: Landing Optical Circuit Switching at Datacenter Scale
Hacker News threads
- 137
A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer
Hacker News threads
- 138
Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2021Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
- Jun 2021Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
- Jun 2022Bolt: Faster matrix and vector operations that run on compressed data
- Jun 2022Bolt: Faster matrix and vector operations that run on compressed data
- Nov 2023Show HN: Stella Nera – Maddness Hardware Accelerator
- May 2024Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c
- 139
egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2020egg: Fast and Extensible E-graphs
- Mar 2021Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Dec 2023Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
- 140
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021Zero-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- May 2023Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
- Oct 2023Why async gradient update doesn't get popular in LLM community?
- 141
What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023What Learning Algorithm Is IN-Context Learning?
- Feb 2023What Learning Algorithm Is In-Context Learning? Linear-Models Investigations
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Mar 2023Solving a Machine-Learning Mystery
- Apr 2023GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A
- 142
BBQ: A Hand-Built Bias Benchmark for Question Answering
Hacker News threads
- 143
High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Nov 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Oct 2022Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
- Nov 2022Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
- Nov 2022New Mac app wants to record everything you do–so you can “rewind” it later
- Aug 2024AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
- 144
The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
- Jan 2023On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)
- Jul 2025Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs
- Aug 2025Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes
- Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- 145
Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCode
Hacker News threads
- 146
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
Hacker News threads
- 147
Student of Games: A unified learning algorithm for both perfect and imperfect information games
Hacker News threads
- 148
AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
- Dec 2020Exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi [pdf]
- Sep 2026Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers (2020)
- Dec 2020Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems
- Nov 2023Chinese spies had acces to Dutch chip maker NXP's systems for over two years
- Jan 2026Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Networks
- 149
Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- 150
The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2025The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Nov 2020Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
- Mar 2021What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?
- Oct 2024We Can Terraform the American West
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