Hacker Papers
- 201
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)
- 202
Rethinking set theory
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019Rethinking Set Theory (2012)
- Jun 2019Foundations of Mathematics (2015) [pdf]
- Dec 2019List of Statements Independent of ZFC
- Aug 2020Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
- Sep 2020Programming with Categories
- Nov 2022Topology, a Categorical Approach (2020)
- Sep 2025How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
- Oct 2025Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
- 203
Knowledge Representation in Bicategories of Relations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017A computational linguistic farce in three acts
- Nov 2017Modeling Science as a Directed Graph
- May 2018The Logical Disaster of Null
- Jul 2018Kialo – a platform for rational debate
- Dec 2018A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
- Aug 2019Software Architecture Guide
- Feb 2020Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
- 204
Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022Meta Learning Backpropagation and Improving It (2020)
- May 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
- Sep 2023HN thread 37367951
- Sep 2023I made a transformer by hand (no training)
- Oct 2023Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context
- Oct 2023How Transformers Work
- Feb 2024Neural Network Diffusion
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 205
Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2020Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
- May 2024Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? (2020)
- May 2020In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
- May 2020In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
- Oct 2020A Review of Consensus Protocols
- May 2021Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
- Jan 2022Paxos
- Aug 2022Why use Paxos instead of Raft?
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- 206
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?
- 207
XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
- Apr 2016Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2016Notes from the fourth RISC-V workshop
- Jan 2017TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
- Jan 2017XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Aug 2018Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
- 208
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
Hacker News threads
- May 2012Google research (with Jeff Dean): Face recognition with unsupervised learning
- Jun 2012In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
- Jun 2012Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face
- Aug 2013The Face Scan Arrives
- Sep 2013Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats
- Dec 2013Google is the new Bell Labs
- Aug 2015M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
- Mar 2023Ask HN: I'm feeling awe, unsettled and disoriented by GPT-4. How about you?
- 209
Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
- Jan 2019Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
- Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
- Dec 2018Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
- Jun 2020Do We Train on Test Data? Purging Cifar of Near-Duplicates
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- Jan 2023A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
- 210
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
- 211
Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Nov 2017Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
- Dec 2017Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality
- Feb 2019Syntax-Guided Synthesis
- Jan 2021Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Feb 2021A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
- Jan 2025Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
- Jul 2025FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
- 212
What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Dec 2019What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Apr 2020What's Hidden in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network?
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Mar 2020Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2020On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Jul 2022I should have loved biology
- Apr 2023Gradients Are Not All You Need
- 213
Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Oct 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
- Jun 2019Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP [pdf]
- Sep 2019The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so
- Oct 2019Green AI
- Sep 2021Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns
- Oct 2021Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- May 2023Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
- Feb 2024I don't want anything your AI generates
- 214
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Con
- Aug 2023Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Aug 2023If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
- Nov 2023Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
- Nov 2023Cats That Fetch Are an Evolutionary Mystery
- Dec 2023The Singularity Is Nigh!
- Mar 2024Claude 3 claims it's conscious
- Dec 2025Do We Need Human-Like AI?
- Oct 2026Are stochastic parrots alive?
- 215
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar (2015)
- Jun 2021Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar
- Feb 2015Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar [pdf]
- Sep 2018Raytracing a Black Hole
- Mar 2019Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
- Apr 2019Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
- Aug 2024Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- Nov 2024Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
- May 2026Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
- 216
Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples
- Jun 2020Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Aug 2017Practical Black-Box Attacks Against Machine Learning
- Apr 2016I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf]
- Aug 2017Why Deep Learning surprises me
- Nov 2017How Adversarial Attacks Work
- Jan 2018Audio Adversarial Examples
- Mar 2018AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
- Oct 2019Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
- 217
Adversarial Patch
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- Jan 2018Adversarial Patch
- Dec 2017Adversarial Patch [pdf]
- May 2018Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert
- Dec 2018Ask HN: Has anyone used adversarial patches for effect?
- Aug 2019Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries
- Jan 2020How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
- Apr 2020Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
- Mar 2024The Elements of Differentiable Programming
- 218
Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
- Nov 2019Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes
- Aug 2020Cellular Automata as Convolutional Neural Networks
- Dec 2020Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
- Feb 2021Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Jan 2024Transformers Are Multi-State RNNs
- 219
FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015Google FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Mar 2015FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Apr 2016Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
- May 2016Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
- May 2017Machine Learning
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Aug 2018Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems
- Jul 2019FBI, ICE using state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition searches
- 220
Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2017Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend
- Mar 2019Sikorsky’s autonomous helicopter tech is ready for takeoff
- Apr 2019Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
- Feb 2020Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
- Jul 2020Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
- Sep 2024Big Tech Sees Like a State (2020)
- 221
A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes, Incompleteness and Fixed Points
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes - Noson S. Yanofsky [2003]
- May 2026Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes (2003)
- Nov 2015The Hardest Logic Puzzle: A step-by-step guide to true, false, and random
- Apr 2020John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
- May 2020Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt
- Jul 2021How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
- Jun 2023Basics of Proofs [pdf]
- Sep 2023Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
- 222
Dropout as a Bayesian Approximation: Representing Model Uncertainty in Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks (1998)
- Dec 2015Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
- Jan 2017Braess’ paradox
- Nov 2017Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2018Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010)
- Jan 2023Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?
- 223
Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Feb 2020JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
- Jun 2020Image GPT
- Jul 2020The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling
- Oct 2024Faster convergence for diffusion models
- Oct 2025Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
- 224
Real Differences between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
- Oct 2018Real differences between ot and crdt for co-editors
- Oct 2018Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
- May 2019Open source collaborative text editors
- Jul 2021Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
- Sep 2021The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
- Jun 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- Jul 2023The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
- 225
Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
- Mar 2023Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time
- Apr 2023Show HN: Pledge Your Human-Made Content
- Jul 2023OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
- Apr 2024OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights
- Sep 2025Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
- Aug 2026How Claude marks AI-generated content
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
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