Hacker Papers
- 176
Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
- Oct 2020Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)
- Sep 2012Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
- Aug 2010Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious
- Jul 2014Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
- Apr 2017Bitcoin Mining is NP-hard (2014)
- Apr 2019P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
- Feb 2020It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
- Apr 2021Nassim Taleb says Bitcoin is an open Ponzi scheme and a failed currency
- Apr 2024AI used well can restore middle class jobs [pdf]
- Jul 2026Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP
- 177
AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2025OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
- Apr 2026Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
- May 2026I’ve joined Anthropic
- May 2026Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup
- Jul 2026Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
- 178
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2026Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
- Apr 2026Alignment Whack-a-Mole
- Apr 2026Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
- Mar 2026The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
- Apr 2026AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way
- Jun 2026US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms deemed security risks
- Jul 2026Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
- 179
The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Mar 2023Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
- Aug 2023How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?
- Nov 2023QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision
- Jan 2024Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
- Nov 2024AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia
- Jun 2026Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
- 180
Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2024Silent data corruptions at scale (2021)
- Jun 2021Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
- Jul 2021Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
- Jun 2021Cores that don’t count [pdf]
- Jul 2021Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
- Jul 2021Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
- May 2022Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512
- Jan 2023ECC RAM should be a human right
- Feb 2024Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
- Aug 2024Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
- 181
Complete Chess Games Enable LLM Become A Chess Master
Hacker News threads
- 182
Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2023Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
- Jul 2025Playing with Open Source LLMs
- Feb 2026Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
- Apr 2026We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
- May 2026Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- Jun 2026DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
- 183
Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
- Oct 2023Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
- Oct 2023Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
- Dec 2023GM Dealer Chat Bot Agrees to Sell 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1
- Mar 2024Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm
- May 2026No Slop Grenade
- Jun 2026The US lifts its block on Mythos 5
- 184
Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 185
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2016New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything
- Oct 2017The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Mar 2019Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Jun 2026Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
- 186
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
Hacker News threads
- May 2023The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- Jun 2026The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
- May 2023Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs
- May 2023What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups
- May 2023HN thread 36136318
- Jun 2023OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman
- Jun 2023Textbooks are all you need
- Jun 2026Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models
- 187
Two notes on notation
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2021Two notes on notation (1992)
- Jun 2019Donald E. Knuth: Two notes on notation (1992)
- Jun 2026Two notes on notation (Knuth, 1992)
- May 2013PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
- Apr 20140^0
- Apr 2015Defining zero factorial
- Jun 2016A Quirky Function
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Oct 2017Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
- Nov 2019A History of APL in Fifty Functions (2016)
- Apr 2021Floor, Ceiling, Bracket
- 188
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2023Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Oct 2023RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jun 2024How Meta trains large language models at scale
- Jun 2024Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking
- Mar 2025AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
- Apr 2025Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study
- Jun 2026Are AI chatbots politically biased?
- 189
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
- Jun 2025Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt
- Jun 2025Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- Jun 2025League of Professional System Administrators - Board to Dissolve Organization
- Jun 2025Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
- Jun 2025Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI?
- Jan 2026Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant
- Mar 2026747s and Coding Agents
- Apr 2026The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
- Apr 2026AI chatbots could be making you stupider
- Jun 2026Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
- 190
SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous Integration
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Mar 2026SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Mar 2026Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects
- May 2026Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
- Jun 2026GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
- 191
The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2024OpenAI: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Apr 2024The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Apr 2024The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Aug 2024Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
- May 2025GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
- Jun 2026A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works
- 192
DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
- Jan 2025A path to O1 open source
- Jan 2025Ask HN: Confused about how DeepSeek hurts Nvidia
- Jan 2025Why DeepSeek had to be open source
- Feb 2025Step-Video-T2V: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model
- May 2025DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
- Feb 2026GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
- Mar 2026Mamba-3
- Jun 2026Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math
- 193
GLU Variants Improve Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Sep 2024SwiGLU activation function causes instability in FP8 LLM training
- Jun 2026Don't trust large context windows
- Jun 2026Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8
- 194
ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained byte-to-byte models
Hacker News threads
- May 2022Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- Dec 2022ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
- Mar 2023Cerebras-GPT vs. LLaMA AI Model Performance Comparison
- Apr 2023A Baby GPT
- Jun 2023Understanding GPT Tokenizers
- Aug 2024Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Nov 2024Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
- Jun 2026Data Compression Explained
- 195
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2026Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development
- Jan 2026Way AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
- Feb 2026Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
- May 2026The AI Elephant in the Room
- Jun 2026Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
- 196
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
- 197
A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
- Jan 2021Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
- Nov 2022Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software
- Jun 2023Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
- Feb 2024A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
- Jun 2026Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts
- 198
Nonlinear quantum mechanics implies polynomial-time solution for NP-complete and #P problems
Hacker News threads
- May 2010What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- Feb 2011A Deepness In The Sky
- Sep 2015You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- Jun 2026Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
- 199
Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
- Mar 202270B language model outperforms Gopher and GPT-3
- Sep 2022Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
- Apr 2022Estimating PaLM's Training Cost
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Feb 2023Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey
- Mar 2023LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support
- Apr 2023OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jun 2026Cohere's First Model for Developers
- 200
Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
- Dec 2024Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
- Feb 2025RLHF Book
- Mar 2025Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
- Mar 2025A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
- Nov 2025CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
- Jun 2026The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis
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