Hacker Papers
- 01
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
- Jun 2025The Illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
- Jul 2025OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
- Dec 2025Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
- Feb 2026I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."
- Mar 2026Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
- Apr 2026We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- Aug 2026Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
- Oct 2026An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
- 02
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2025DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Jan 2025DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
- Jan 2025DeepSeek temporarily limits registration to Chinese mobile numbers
- Jan 2025The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
- Jan 2025Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?
- Apr 2025In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
- Sep 2025The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
- Jan 2026Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
- Sep 2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
- 03
Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2025CaMeL: Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
- Apr 2025Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers
- Jun 2025EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot
- Jul 2025Code execution through email: How I used Claude to hack itself
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Sep 2025Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
- Feb 2026Don't trust AI agents
- Jul 2026Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
- Oct 2026Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
- 04
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
- Aug 2025Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
- Jul 2025I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
- Aug 2025About AI
- Sep 2025AI coding
- Oct 2025Our efforts, in part, define us
- Oct 2025Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?
- Dec 2025If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
- Jan 2026Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
- Oct 2026Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
- 05
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
- 06
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
- 07
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
- 08
Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with a Model-Agnostic Verification-and-Refinement Pipeline
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with Prompting
- Jul 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025
- Jul 2025Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
- Aug 2025GPT-5
- Aug 2025Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics
- Sep 2025DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- Oct 2025Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
- Nov 2025Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
- Jan 20262025: The Year in LLMs
- 09
How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
Hacker News threads
- May 2025How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
- May 2025Google Researcher Lowers Quantum Bar to Crack RSA Encryption
- May 2025It Might Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break Bitcoin, Google Says
- Aug 2025Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- Aug 2025Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- Oct 2025Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
- Oct 2025Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
- Nov 2025Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow
- Jul 2026France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
- 10
Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
- Feb 2025Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
- Jul 2025Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
- Mar 2026Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
- Apr 2026System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Aug 2026AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
- 11
Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition
- Feb 2025Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)
- Apr 2025AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
- Oct 2025Reasoning is not model improvement
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- Sep 2026US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- Oct 2026How accurately calibrated is Jev?
- 12
Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Jun 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Nov 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- May 2025Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning
- Jun 2025Vision Language Models Are Biased
- Nov 2025The space of minds
- Feb 2026An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
- Aug 2026Small Models Have Arrived
- Sep 2026A beginning for mathematics
- 13
The SWE-Bench Illusion: When State-of-the-Art LLMs Remember Instead of Reason
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025The SWE-Bench Illusion: When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason
- Feb 2026The SWE-Bench Illusion: When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason
- Jul 2025Principles for production AI agents
- Aug 2025Open models by OpenAI
- Sep 2025Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
- Sep 2025Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
- Feb 2026Prediction: Claude 5 will be a major regression
- Mar 2026FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
- Jun 2026Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?
- 14
s1: Simple test-time scaling
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Test-time scaling new approach: extra test-time compute improves LLM reasoning
- Feb 2025s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
- Feb 2025Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
- Feb 2025S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
- Feb 2025Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
- Feb 2025LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
- Mar 2025QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2025Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
- Apr 2026TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
- Jul 2026Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
- 15
Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Hacker News threads
- May 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Apr 2025(How) Do reasoning models reason?
- Jun 2025Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
- Oct 2025A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
- Nov 2025Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Jun 2026GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
- Aug 2026Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful
- Sep 2026OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
- Sep 2026How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Sep 2026Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Sep 2026Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
- 16
Large Language Diffusion Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2025Large Language Diffusion Models
- Feb 2025Large Language Diffusion Models
- Feb 2025Diffusion LLM Has Arrived
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Feb 2025I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
- Mar 2025Beyond Diffusion: Inductive Moment Matching
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
- Apr 2025Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete
- May 2025Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
- Feb 2026Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
- 17
Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Give Me FP32 or Give Me Death?
- Sep 2026Understanding, Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
- Jun 2025TPU Deep Dive
- Jul 2025LLMs as Compilers
- Jul 2025Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
- Feb 2026LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
- Mar 2026Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack
- Aug 2026What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
- 18
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Mar 2025Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Jul 2025Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Apr 2025Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration
- May 2025A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet
- Oct 2025Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- Apr 2026Introducing GPT-5.5
- May 2026Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
- May 2026The Sigmoids Won't Save You
- 19
Why Language Models Hallucinate
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Sep 2025Why Language Models Hallucinate
- Mar 2026Why Language Models Hallucinate (2025)
- Sep 2025OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable
- Sep 2025What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
- Oct 2025GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
- Dec 2025Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
- Feb 2026Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
- May 2026OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable (Sept. 2025)
- 20
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Aug 2026Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- Apr 2025Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
- Aug 2025Do we understand how neural networks work?
- Apr 2026There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
- May 2026A Theory of Deep Learning
- Sep 2026Transformers Explained Visually
- 21
Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- May 2025Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
- Sep 2026Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
- May 2025Text Embeddings are All Alike
- Dec 2025The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- Jan 2026Moltbook
- Mar 2026
- Jul 2026Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
- Aug 2026Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- 22
Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Aug 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jun 2025Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
- Jul 2025Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
- Aug 2025My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
- Sep 2025Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
- Jul 2026Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos
- 23
How much do language models memorize?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025How much do language models memorize?
- Jun 2025Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten
- Jun 2025A practical guide to building agents [pdf]
- Jun 2025Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
- Jun 2025Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
- Jul 2025Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
- Sep 2025California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
- Sep 2026LLMs are real, AI is fake
- 24
Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- May 2025The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- Jun 2025A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
- Jun 2025AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick
- Sep 2025Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
- Apr 2026
- 25
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
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