Hacker Papers
- 151
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Adversarial Network
- Sep 2016Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Oct 2016Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
- Nov 2016RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Jan 2017With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
- Jul 2020Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
- 152
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
- Jun 2019The transformer “explained”?
- Jul 2019MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
- Aug 2019GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
- Aug 2019Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
- Aug 2020Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
- May 2022Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- 153
Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- 154
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Unsupervised Rep. Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Advers. Nets
- Jul 2026Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional GANs
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Mar 2016Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- 155
Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Zero shot translation learning
- Nov 2016Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Feb 2017Google's Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System
- Nov 2016Peeking into the architecture used for Google's Neural Machine Translation
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Mar 2017Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
- Jul 2017Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
- 156
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)
- Aug 2020Flash Boys 2.0
- Sep 2020Frontrunning, Tx Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
- Apr 2019Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges
- Nov 2019Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
- Jan 2021Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)
- Feb 2021Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators
- Feb 2021Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing
- Sep 2022Flashbots
- 157
Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices
- Jan 2017Fake Physics
- Apr 2017Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out
- Jun 2017By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical
- Sep 2018Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
- Sep 2019Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
- Sep 2019Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- 158
Universal Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
- Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
- Aug 2025The Drivers of HRM's Performance on Arc-AGI
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
- 159
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)
- 160
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
- 161
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
- 162
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
- 163
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
- 164
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?
- 165
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
- 166
OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Extended Version)
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
- Apr 2020OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jun 2021Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking
- May 2026Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
- 167
Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019GPT-2 is not as dangerous as OpenAI thought it might be
- Nov 2019A.I. and the Future of Cheating
- Dec 2019The dark ages of AI: A panel discussion at AAAI-84 (1985)
- Aug 2020Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
- Jan 2023ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model
- 168
Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014
Hacker News threads
- 169
Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
- Nov 2016Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
- Nov 2016EmDrive study officially published
- Dec 2016Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
- Dec 2016LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown
- Dec 2016First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
- Dec 2016First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
- Dec 2016First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
- Mar 2017Free Will
- Mar 2024Anomalous contribution to galactic rotation curves due to stochastic spacetime
- 170
Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
- Jan 2019Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs (2016) [pdf]
- Apr 2018Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs (2016)
- Dec 2016How to Steal an AI (reverse engineer machine-learning)
- Dec 2016Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
- Jan 2017Amazon AI
- Mar 2017Cloud Video Intelligence API
- Mar 2017Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeline look like?
- Mar 2017I reverse-engineered a $500M Artificial Intelligence company in one week
- Jun 2018Attacks against machine learning – an overview
- 171
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]
- Dec 2018Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
- Feb 2019Nvidias recent face generation deep neural network (keep refreshing)
- Feb 2019This person does not exist
- Feb 2019This person does not exist
- Feb 2019Show HN: Fake Profile Picture Generator
- Feb 2019This Waifu Does Not Exist
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Oct 2021Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature
- 172
Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
- Jun 2020How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
- Jun 2020Much More Efficient Self-Play Learning in Go
- Jun 2020Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia
- Nov 2022Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
- 173
Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic language
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic language
- Oct 2018Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern
- Feb 2019When Rust is safer than Haskell
- Sep 2020Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go
- Dec 2020GHC 9.0, supporting linear types
- Dec 2020GHC 9.0, supporting linear types
- Dec 2020GHC 9.0, supporting linear types
- 174
Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration?
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
- Nov 2018Interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
- Jan 2019A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
- Feb 2019Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us
- Jan 2021Harvard Professor Says Alien Technology Visited Earth in 2017
- Jan 2021Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?
- 175
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time (Babai's Preprint)
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
- Dec 2015Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
- Mar 2016The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-In-the-Game” Insiders
- Dec 2016An Algebra of Graphs
- Jun 2022Quantum chip takes microseconds to do task that takes a supercomputer 9k years
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