Hacker Papers
- 176
Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2023Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
- Nov 2023Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
- Nov 2023DeepMind on the Definitions and Levels of AGI
- Nov 2023Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
- Nov 2023The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart
- Dec 2023Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
- Mar 2024Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
- May 2024Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
- May 2025Evolving OpenAI's Structure
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Jun 2025Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
- 177
People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can detect AI-generated text
- Jan 2025People who use ChatGPT for writing are robust detectors of AI-generated text
- May 2026People who use ChatGPT for writing are accurate detectors of AI text (2025)
- Nov 2025When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug
- Apr 2026Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- May 2026Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
- Jun 2026"No, I swear I wrote this."
- Jul 2026Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
- Aug 2026Where .env Went Wrong
- Aug 2026I'm Becoming AI-Blind
- 178
Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Dec 2018Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
- Jan 2019Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2
- Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
- Mar 2019‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
- Sep 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2024Where is Noether's principle in machine learning?
- Mar 2024On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
- 179
Recursive Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Recursive Language Models
- Jan 2026General plug-and-play inference lib for RLMs
- Jan 2026Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
- Jan 2026MIT Researchers Destroy the Context Window Limit [video]
- Jan 2026Show HN: RLM-MCP Analyze Files in Claude Code Using MIT's recursive LM paper
- Feb 2026The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
- Apr 2026RLM: LLMs to process arbitrarily long prompts with inference-time scaling (2025)
- Jun 2026
- Oct 2026Context Language Models
- 180
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2020Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Aug 2021Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (2020)
- Sep 2024Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails [pdf]
- Feb 2020Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
- Mar 2020Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
- Mar 2020Black Swan Events
- Apr 2020New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
- Oct 2020The Three Sides of Risk
- Oct 2020Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
- Jul 2023It Takes Long to Become Gaussian
- May 2024Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
- 181
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs
- Mar 2026An early look at the labor market impact potential of LLMs (2023)
- Mar 2023ChatGPT is down
- Mar 2023OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Impacted by GPT
- Apr 2023Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
- Nov 2023Google AI chief says there's a 50% chance we'll hit AGI in just 5 years
- Mar 2024AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft
- Oct 2024OpenAI not expecting to break into profitability until 2029
- May 2025John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- Nov 2025MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
- 182
The Llama 3 Herd of Models
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2024The Llama 3 Herd of Models
- Dec 2024The Llama 3 Herd of Models
- Aug 2024Meta's Joe Spisak on Llama 3.1 405B [video]
- Aug 2024Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
- Oct 2024Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
- Dec 2024Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
- Feb 2025Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson
- Mar 2025AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
- May 2025Type-constrained code generation with language models
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
- 183
Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression rate of arithmetic coding
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Asymmetric numeral systems (2014)
- May 2016Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy encoding (2013)
- Jan 2023Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding and Huffman coding 2014 [pdf]
- Jul 2016Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
- Jul 2016Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
- Aug 2016Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
- Apr 2017JPEG Huffman Coding Tutorial
- Aug 2017Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept
- Aug 2017Understanding Asymmetric Numeral Systems
- May 2022Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea
- Mar 2024The Montreal problem: Why programming languages need a style czar
- 184
SequenceMatch: Imitation Learning for Autoregressive Sequence Modelling with Backtracking
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token
- Jun 2023LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
- Jun 2024AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
- Mar 2025Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Aug 2025Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
- Sep 2025The wall confronting large language models
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- Oct 2025Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
- 185
Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Jun 2024Computational Life: How Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
- Jul 2024The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
- Jul 2024Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'
- Aug 2024Self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction (in JavaScript)
- Sep 2024Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
- Nov 2024OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
- Nov 2025Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
- Aug 2026The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
- Aug 2026Computational Life Reactor (Based on Brainfuck)
- 186
Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching (Khuong and Morin, 2015)
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Assist threads
- Oct 2015Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Processing Power (2014)
- Jun 2017SIMD / GPU Friendly Branchless Binary Search
- May 2020Lomuto's Comeback
- Jul 2020Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster
- Feb 2022Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search
- Nov 2024Fastest Branchless Binary Search
- Jul 2026Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)
- 187
RL$^2$: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2017Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- Feb 2023What were the 40 research papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
- 188
LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2023LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Aug 2022LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
- Sep 2022Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
- Feb 2023How to Train Large Models on Many GPUs?
- Mar 2023Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
- Apr 2023Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
- May 2023Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]
- May 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- Jul 2023Transformer Attention is off by one
- Jun 2024Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
- 189
Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Deepmind Navigates 3D Maze WithAsynchronous Methods 4 Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Feb 2016Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2016Google DeepMind: Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2016How Far to AI Utopia?
- Apr 2016Visual Doom AI Competition
- Jun 2016Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Keras and OpenAI Gym
- Aug 2016Reinforcement Learning and DQN – learning to play from pixels
- Sep 2016BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Mar 2017Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
- 190
How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset (PDF)
- Oct 2008"Anonymous" Facebook Dataset Is Identified as Harvard Students
- Jan 2011$3 million machine learning prize
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Dec 2017Netflix tweet raises privacy questions
- Jul 2023California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
- Sep 2025Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
- Apr 2026It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Apr 2026Show HN: I'm tracking 197 known exposures of health data from UK Biobank
- 191
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
- Jul 2021DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields
- Jan 2022Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding
- Sep 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
- Oct 2022Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
- Apr 2023HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields
- Oct 2025Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
- May 2026Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
- 192
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
- 193
Hopfield Networks is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020)
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2020Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
- Aug 2021Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
- Feb 2022Ask HN: Is GitHub Copilot / IntelliCode Legal?
- Sep 2022Transformers seem to mimic parts of the brain
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
- Mar 2024Short-term Hebbian learning can implement transformer-like attention
- Feb 2025LM2: Large Memory Models
- Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices
- 194
Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025"GPT training in U.S. data centers can evaporate 700k L of freshwater"
- Mar 2025Making AI Less Thirsty: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret AI Water Footprint
- Mar 2024Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
- Jun 2023ChatGPT requires half a liter of water to have a conversation
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Sep 2024A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
- Apr 2025Bored of It
- Nov 2025AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
- May 2026AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks
- Jun 2026Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
- 195
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Precautionary Principle (As Applied to GMOs) [Taleb et al]
- Nov 2014The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- Jul 2015The Mathiness of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Nov 2016We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
- Mar 2018Why I’m quitting GMO research
- Apr 2018EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
- Dec 2018Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
- 196
Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Apr 2023We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI
- Apr 2023Grokking in Julia
- May 2023Tiny Transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm
- Aug 2023The Myth of AI Omniscience
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Oct 2024OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition
- Jan 2026Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)
- 197
Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Sep 2023Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
- Mar 2023Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Nov 2023Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API
- May 2024Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
- Sep 2024AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- 198
Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
- Nov 2022Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
- Jan 2023Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
- Dec 2022The End of Programming
- Dec 2022Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines
- Feb 2023AI assistants: The convenient crutch for new developers or a recipe for disaster
- Mar 2023Lost at C: A user study on the security of LLM coding assistants
- Sep 2025To AI or not to AI
- Feb 2026Write-Only Code
- May 2026Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated
- Oct 2026Is this the new cyber normal?
- 199
Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
- Nov 2016Facebook is harming our democracy
- Nov 2016A machine learning approach to identifying thought markers of suicidal subjects
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Apr 2017Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence criminals
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Jun 2018AI at Google: our principles
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Jun 2024Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
- 200
Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Deep Unsupervised Learning Using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [pdf]
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
- Feb 2024Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
- May 2024Diffusion Models
- Sep 2024Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
- Sep 2024Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
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