Hacker Papers
- 201
Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
- Feb 2023ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide
- May 2023How does data removal from GPT *work
- Aug 2023PMET: Precise Model Editing in a Transformer
- Oct 2023MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
- Nov 2023Is the reversal curse in LLMs real?
- Dec 2023What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation a.k.a. RAG?
- May 2024Llama3 implemented from scratch
- 202
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2024Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
- Oct 2021A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
- Mar 2022Deep learning is hitting a wall?
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Sep 2022Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
- Aug 2023Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
- Oct 2023When Gradient Descent Is a Kernel Method
- 203
SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
- Mar 2019In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Slide: In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Deep Learning Breakthrough Sees One Xeon Destroying 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
- Dec 2020Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Aug 2021pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
- Oct 2021New features coming in Julia 1.7
- Feb 2022Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
- Feb 2025(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
- 204
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Aug 2021What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Sep 2023What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
- Oct 2019Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
- Jul 2020What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
- Sep 2020A Black Hole at the Center of Earth
- Mar 2021The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9
- Apr 2024New evidence found for Planet 9
- May 2024Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
- May 2025Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
- 205
Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
- Nov 2015Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
- Nov 2015Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client [pdf]
- May 2017NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
- Nov 2018Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?
- Jan 2020Doug Tygar, author of Why Johnny Can't Encrypt, has died
- Nov 2021My WhatsApp Security code changed, with no login or logout
- Dec 2021Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
- Mar 2024Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
- Apr 2024Why can't my mom email me?
- 206
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
- Feb 2018The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Jan 2020The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Aug 2018Learning Math for Machine Learning
- Oct 2021Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN?
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- Jul 2023The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Jan 2024Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
- Mar 2025Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
- 207
A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Sep 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Mar 2017A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails
- Aug 2017Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames? [pdf]
- Sep 2017Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight
- Oct 2017Transport for London plans to collect data from passengers' mobiles
- Dec 2017Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
- Feb 2018Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
- Nov 2018Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone
- Jan 2019Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
- 208
A Critique of the CAP Theorem
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015A Critique of the CAP Theorem
- Jun 2017A Critique of the CAP Theorem
- Sep 2015Call Me Maybe: Percona XtraDB Cluster
- Oct 2015The CAP FAQ
- Jun 2017The Limits of the CAP Theorem
- Sep 2021Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?
- Jan 2024CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed (2012)
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2026Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
- 209
Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
- May 2015Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
- Oct 2012Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
- Dec 2012Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
- Apr 2013Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation
- Feb 2014Is the Universe a Simulation?
- Jul 2014The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
- Jun 2015Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Government
- Dec 2015Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science
- Jul 2021Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second
- 210
Route Planning in Transportation Networks
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2024Route Planning in Transportation Networks (2015)
- Apr 2016Route Planning in Transportation Networks
- Apr 2015On Dijkstra's Algorithm
- Oct 2016Show HN: Dijkstra’s algorithm in the web browser with OpenStreetMap
- Feb 2017JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]
- Mar 2018B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010)
- Oct 2019New pathfinding algorithm
- Jan 2024A* tricks for videogame path finding
- Jan 2024A* tricks for videogame path finding
- Mar 2024Hexagons and Hilbert curves – The headaches of distributed spatial indices
- 211
Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023RLFH Alternative Direct Preference Optimization
- May 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model Is a Reward Model
- May 2023Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Dec 2023Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- Jan 2024Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
- Aug 2025Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF
- Jun 2026I design with Claude more than Figma now
- Sep 2026Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
- 212
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2012Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors [pdf]
- Dec 2012Why use SVM
- Feb 2014Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
- May 2014What does a neural network actually do?
- Oct 2015Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Nov 2016Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- 213
Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
- 214
A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2013Poll on nature of reality
- Nov 2016A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics (2013)
- Nov 2014Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
- Sep 2015Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
- Oct 2015Quantum effects in relatively large systems
- Oct 2017The Scientific Case for P≠NP
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Jun 2020What is a photon? (2017)
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- 215
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
- Mar 2018Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
- Sep 2018How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency
- Jan 2019Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
- Jul 2020Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
- Oct 2020Coinbase Card
- Dec 2020Zcash Open Major Grants
- Oct 2022Chainalysis CTO said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money
- 216
Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets [pdf]
- Feb 2018Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
- Jan 2019An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Feb 2024Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
- 217
Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- May 2023“Just a statistical text predictor”
- Dec 2024Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- Feb 2025Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Apr 2025Can reinforcement learning for LLMs scale beyond math and coding tasks? Probably
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Nov 2025Google Antigravity
- Oct 2026DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
- 218
Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2014How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Apr 2014Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
- Jun 2014Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
- Jul 2014Inside Google Brain
- Feb 2016Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud
- Jun 2016Intro to Hidden Markov Models (2010) [pdf]
- Mar 2017ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google
- 219
Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2014Building a deeper understanding of images
- Mar 2015Show HN: Anime character recognizer
- Apr 2015Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
- Jul 2015Deep learning
- Mar 2016Turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks
- Apr 2016Show HN: Open source colorizing grayscale images with NN
- Jun 2021Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
- 220
End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jul 2016Master Plan, Part Deux
- Feb 2017The most cited deep learning papers
- May 2017Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
- Jun 2017Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
- Sep 2017Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms
- May 2018A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning
- Jul 2018Ask HN: What makes a good autonomous vehicles engineer?
- Jul 2018Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here
- 221
Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
Hacker News threads
- May 2021Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- Sep 2025Geometric Deep Learning Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges [pdf]
- Apr 2021Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- May 2021An Erlangen Programme to Establish the Geometric Foundations of Deep Learning
- Jun 2021ICLR 2021 Keynote: “Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML”
- Apr 2022Why train when you can optimize?
- Jan 2023Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?
- Jan 2023Just know stuff. (Or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)
- Feb 2023Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models
- Jun 2025Spherical CNNs (2018)
- Sep 2025The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
- 222
Do Black Holes have Singularities?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2023Roy Kerr: Do Black Holes Have Singularities?
- Feb 2024Relativistic Spaceship
- Feb 2024Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar
- Apr 2024Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole
- May 2024Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way
- Jun 2024Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
- Jul 2024Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve
- Oct 2024On the Nature of Time
- Mar 2025James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise
- 223
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2020A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
- Jul 2024A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (2021)
- Jan 2023A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
- Dec 2020To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
- Mar 2021Templating for Lawyers
- May 2021Legalese – Computational Law
- Oct 2021Open Source Tax Software
- Oct 2021Open Source Tax Software
- Jun 2022Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
- Feb 2023Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
- May 2026Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
- 224
DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeekMath
- Feb 2024DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open LLMs
- Feb 2024Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
- Jan 2025Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod
- Feb 2025GPT-4.5
- Mar 2025Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”
- May 2025DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
- Nov 2025DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
- 225
Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
- Feb 2020This person does not exist
- Nov 2020This X Does Not Exist (2019)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Feb 2021Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Jul 2022Show HN: This Food Does Not Exist
- Oct 2024Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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