Hacker Papers

1. 176
   

   Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset

   Dan Hendrycks et al. · 2021

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   • Nov 2021Measuring mathematical problem solving with the MATH dataset
   • Mar 2023Cerebras-GPT vs. LLaMA AI Model Performance Comparison
   • Oct 2023An AI Which Imitates Humans Can Beat Humans
   • Jan 2025Mistral Small 3

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2. 177
   

   Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training

   David Patterson et al. · 2021

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   • May 2021Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training
   • Jan 2022Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training
   • Apr 2021Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training
   • Apr 2021Google-led paper pushes back against claims of AI inefficiency
   • Oct 2021Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
   • Jan 2022Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation

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3. 178
   

   Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs & Outputs

   Andrew Jaegle et al. · 2021

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   • Aug 2021Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs and Outputs
   • Apr 2025Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs and Outputs (2021)
   • Sep 2021Has AI found a new foundation?
   • Nov 2021Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
   • Jun 2023Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly on File Bytes

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4. 179
   

   Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ

   Alin Deutsch et al. · 2021

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   • Jan 2022Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ
   • Feb 2022Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0
   • Apr 2024GQL: A New ISO Standard in Graph Query Language
   • May 2024Simplifying Join Syntax

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5. 180
   

   Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters

   Thomas Mueller Graf, Daniel Lemire · 2022

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   • Jan 2022Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters
   • Jun 2024Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than XOR filters
   • Jan 2026Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters
   • Oct 2022Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
   • Sep 2024When Bloom filters don't bloom (2020)
   • May 2025Bloom Filters

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6. 181
   

   Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning

   Ben Sorscher et al. · 2022

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   • Aug 2022Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning
   • Jul 2022Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning
   • Jul 2022Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
   • Dec 2022Copilot Internals
   • Mar 2026Microgpt

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7. 182
   

   TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second

   Noah Hollmann et al. · 2022

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   • Oct 2022A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second
   • Aug 2022Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
   • Aug 2023Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data
   • Jan 2025Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data

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8. 183
   

   Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models

   Daniel Y. Fu et al. · 2022

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   • Jan 2023Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models
   • Jan 2023Towards Language Modeling With State Space Models
   • Feb 2023GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text
   • Mar 2023We're never getting rid of ChatGPT
   • Apr 2025Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM

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9. 184
   

   Reformer: The Efficient Transformer

   Nikita Kitaev et al. · 2020

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   • Jan 2020Reformer: The Efficient Transformer
   • Jan 2020Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
   • Oct 2020Nilang.jl – A Reversible Julia DSL
   • May 2026SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

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10. 185
    

    Unexpected Circular Radio Objects at High Galactic Latitude

    Ray P. Norris et al. · 2020

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    • Jul 2020Unexpected Circular Radio Objects at High Galactic Latitude
    • Jul 2020Highly circular objects spotted in deep space
    • Dec 2020“Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited
    • Mar 2022Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail

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11. 186
    

    Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

    Yuntao Bai et al. · 2022

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    • Aug 2023Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human
    • Mar 2023Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
    • Aug 2023The Poison of (LLMs) Alignment
    • Sep 2023Meta wants its open source AI model to be as capable as OpenAI’s best model

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12. 187
    

    How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups?

    Scott Aaronson · 2022

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    • Oct 2022How Much Structure Is Needed for Quantum Speedups?
    • Oct 2022Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
    • Nov 2022Quantum winter is coming
    • Oct 2025Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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13. 188
    

    Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding

    Zijiao Chen et al. · 2022

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    • Nov 2022Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modelin
    • Nov 2022Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans
    • Feb 2023Real-Time Brain-to-Image Reconstructions
    • May 2023Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds

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14. 189
    

    PAL: Program-aided Language Models

    Luyu Gao et al. · 2022

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    • Jan 2023Program Aided Language Models
    • Jan 2023GPT-3: Techniques to improve reliability
    • Mar 2023Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Knowledge Pollution
    • Nov 2025Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)

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15. 190
    

    ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT

    Omar Khattab, Matei Zaharia · 2020

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    • May 2024Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
    • Sep 2024Late Chunking: Contextual Chunk Embeddings Using Long-Context Embedding Models
    • Jan 2025Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

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16. 191
    

    ZX-calculus for the working quantum computer scientist

    John van de Wetering · 2020

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    • Jun 2023Introduction to the ZX-Calculus
    • Jun 2024Category theory using string diagrams (2014)
    • Dec 2024A particle physics course for high-school students

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17. 192
    

    LowKey: Leveraging Adversarial Attacks to Protect Social Media Users from Facial Recognition

    Valeriia Cherepanova et al. · 2021

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    • Jan 2021LowKey web app tweaks images to thwart facial recognition systems
    • Feb 2021Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition
    • Apr 2021Ask HN: Amyone successfully verify fawkes claims of protection against AI?

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18. 193
    

    CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers

    Haiping Wu et al. · 2021

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    • Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
    • Jul 2022
    • Dec 2025The Illustrated Transformer

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19. 194
    

    Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers

    Ali Hassani et al. · 2021

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    • Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
    • Dec 2023Deep Dive into the Vision Transformers Paper (ViT)
    • Jul 2025FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

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20. 195
    

    Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus

    Jack Bandy, Nicholas Vincent · 2021

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    • Feb 2023Ask HN: Does Google use the text inside gdocs and Gmail for training AI models?
    • Jul 2023The Pile: a dataset for language modeling [pdf]
    • Sep 2023

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21. 196
    

    Pattern-defeating Quicksort

    Orson R. L. Peters · 2021

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    • 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)

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22. 197
    

    TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

    Stephanie Lin et al. · 2021

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    • Oct 2021Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
    • Feb 2023ArxivGPT: Chrome extension that summarizes arxived research papers using ChatGPT
    • Aug 2026If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast

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23. 198
    

    Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces

    Albert Gu et al. · 2021

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    • Sep 2023Ask HN: Transformer alternatives that could have emergent properties when scaled
    • Feb 2024A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
    • Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention

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24. 199
    

    Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives

    Erik W. Lentz · 2021

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    • Nov 2022Physical Warp Drives (2021)
    • Oct 2023Supernova in 1006
    • Jun 2024A Study Says Warp Drives Might Be Real–and We'll Find Them with Lasers

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25. 200
    

    Deep Symbolic Regression for Recurrent Sequences

    Stéphane d'Ascoli et al. · 2022

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    • Jan 2022Deep symbolic regression for recurrent sequences
    • Feb 2022I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
    • Mar 2022GPT-3 can run code

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