Hacker Papers
- 01
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
- Dec 2015Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Mar 2016Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust
- Jun 2016What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?
- Jun 2018Ask HN: Can you recommend any ML papers or blogs for visual art detection?
- Aug 2020China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
- Nov 2023Simplifying Transformer Blocks
- Oct 2026We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
- 02
Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
- Sep 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
- Dec 2019Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values [pdf]
- Dec 2019Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
- Aug 2020Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
- Jun 2022Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)
- Oct 2026Collatz Conjecture
- 03
Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Jun 2016Concrete Problems in AI Safety
- Nov 2017AI Safety: problem of accidents in machine learning systems
- Jun 2016Concrete AI Safety Problems
- May 2017The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
- Oct 2017OpenAI's Researchers: Protecting Against AI’s Existential Threat
- Oct 2018Ask HN: Examples of AI ethical principles?
- Nov 2019Safety Gym
- May 2021Anthropic AI
- Apr 2023Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
- Jul 2026Our position on open-weights models
- 04
CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography [2017]
- Jan 2019CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography
- Sep 2024Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tags
- Aug 2025How attention sinks keep language models stable
- Mar 2026No right to relicense this project
- Oct 2026Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
- 05
On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
- Apr 2021Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
- Jan 2023Overconfidence and AI
- Sep 2023Can LLMs learn from a single example?
- Sep 2026Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- Oct 2026Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
- 06
Attention Is All You Need
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017Deep Neural Networks – Attention is all you need (No recurrence or convolutions)
- Jun 2017Attention Is All You Need (Neural Networks)
- Jun 2025Attention Is All You Need
- Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
- Apr 2020Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- May 2023Why the Original Transformer LLM Figure Is Wrong, and Other Interesting Tidbits
- Dec 2023Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
- Jan 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- Mar 2026Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
- Sep 2026The AI Race Just Got Awkward
- 07
On the Measure of Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
- Jun 2024The Measure of Intelligence
- Nov 2019François Chollet: The Measure of Intelligence
- Nov 2019What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?
- Jul 2020OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Jan 2023What Is AGI-Hard
- Mar 2024AIs ranked by IQ; AI passes 100 IQ for first time, with release of Claude-3
- Oct 2024Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
- Jul 2025François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
- Sep 2026Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
- 08
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)
- 09
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
- May 2021Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
- Jun 2025Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
- Jun 2018Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
- Jun 2019End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf]
- May 2020Timeline of the Far Future
- Dec 2020Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress
- May 2021Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find
- Oct 2022Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox
- Apr 2024Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
- Jan 2026SETI Home Is in Hiberation
- 10
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2018Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
- Jul 2018Evolving Floorplans
- Mar 2019Ask HN: Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?
- Oct 2019The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- Sep 2026We must pace the frontier
- 11
Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2021Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
- Sep 2024Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
- May 2020Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second [pdf]
- Mar 2019An Intel Programmer Jumps over Wall: First Impressions of ARM SIMD Programming
- Jul 2019How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
- Oct 2021Word-Aligned Bloom Filters
- Mar 20241BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
- Aug 2025Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
- Sep 2026Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm
- 12
Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
- 13
Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2015Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
- Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Dec 2017Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js
- Apr 2022Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories
- Mar 2023Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?
- Mar 2026NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
- Aug 2026OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
- 14
Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Aug 2016Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
- Mar 2017In search of a simple consensus algorithm
- Mar 2017Paxos in 25 Lines
- Sep 2024Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)
- Jan 2025Did we miss P In CAP? Partial Progress Conjecture under Asynchrony
- Aug 2026TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
- 15
Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Are real numbers really real?
- Oct 2018Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
- Nov 2018The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
- Sep 2021How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
- Nov 2023Struggles with the Continuum
- Jan 2024Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Jul 2026How real are real numbers? (2004)
- 16
Logical Induction
Hacker News threads
- 17
AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining
Hacker News threads
- 18
Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jun 2019Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017)
- Jan 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
- Jul 2017Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning
- Apr 2018Skynet Today – accessible and informed coverage of AI hype and panic
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Jul 2023FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm
- Dec 2023Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
- Dec 2023Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE
- Jun 2024AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
- Jul 2026Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
- 19
The Android Platform Security Model (2023)
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019The Android Platform Security Model
- Apr 2025The Android Platform Security Model v3 (2023)
- Apr 2019The Android Platform Security Model [pdf]
- Mar 2022F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
- Mar 2022F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
- Mar 2025Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
- Mar 2026Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
- Jul 2026Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
- 20
Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
Hacker News threads
- May 2017Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching (Khuong and Morin, 2015)
- Oct 2015Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
- Oct 2015Assist threads
- Oct 2015Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Processing Power (2014)
- Jun 2017SIMD / GPU Friendly Branchless Binary Search
- May 2020Lomuto's Comeback
- Jul 2020Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster
- Feb 2022Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search
- Nov 2024Fastest Branchless Binary Search
- Jul 2026Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)
- 21
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Unsupervised Rep. Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Advers. Nets
- Jul 2026Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional GANs
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Mar 2016Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
- 22
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
- 23
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
- 24
Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs
Hacker News threads
- 25
Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
Hacker News threads
- May 2019Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
- Dec 2023Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)
- Feb 2022Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete (2019)
- Aug 2019Rediscovering rules for ancient board games
- Jun 2020How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity
- Jun 2022AI Is Ushering in a New Scientific Revolution
- Dec 2022“Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game
- Jul 2023Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
- Dec 2023I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Win Rate
- Sep 2024Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true
- Jun 2026MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play magic
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