Hacker Papers
- 01
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2020Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
- Jun 2022Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
- Sep 2026Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (first "scaling laws" paper from 2020)
- Jan 2020Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data
- Oct 2021Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
- Feb 2023Ask HN: How “real” are AI scaling laws?
- Apr 2023OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
- Dec 2023Do large language models need all those layers?
- Oct 2024Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Oct 2026Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
- 02
Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2024Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
- Nov 2022Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
- Jan 2023Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
- Dec 2022The End of Programming
- Dec 2022Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines
- Feb 2023AI assistants: The convenient crutch for new developers or a recipe for disaster
- Mar 2023Lost at C: A user study on the security of LLM coding assistants
- Sep 2025To AI or not to AI
- Feb 2026Write-Only Code
- May 2026Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated
- Oct 2026Is this the new cyber normal?
- 03
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- May 2023LORA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- Oct 2026LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (2021)
- Mar 2023Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
- Mar 2023How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT
- Mar 2023LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- Sep 2023Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style
- Apr 2024DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G
- Nov 2024LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence
- Aug 2026Claude: System Prompts
- 04
A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
- Oct 2026A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
- Dec 2020A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
- Feb 2021Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power
- Aug 2024Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
- Aug 2026Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math
- 05
Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Nov 2023Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation
- Dec 2021Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
- May 2022The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
- Oct 2023The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT
- Nov 2023Transformers struggle with generalizing tasks beyond pre-training data
- Mar 2024Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why
- Oct 2024GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
- Feb 2026GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
- Oct 2026“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
- 06
Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
- Jul 2022(typo in URL, ignore)
- Jul 2022DeepMind: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent RL
- Dec 2022Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
- Oct 2025Poker Tournament for LLMs
- Oct 2026With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
- 07
Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Will we run out of data to train LLMs?
- Nov 2022We might run out of language data to train ML models soon [pdf]
- Dec 2022An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning
- Dec 2022Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
- Dec 2023Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
- Sep 2025Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
- Sep 2026Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- 08
DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Aug 2021DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Jul 2020DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Sep 2022DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
- Dec 2023Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
- Oct 2025Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
- Sep 2026Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
- 09
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
- 10
Locally Typical Sampling
Hacker News threads
- 11
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback [pdf]
- Dec 2022Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Apr 2023Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Jan 2023Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
- Feb 2023What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- May 2023Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
- Jun 2023How RLHF Works
- Jun 2024Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- Sep 2026I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
- 12
AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
- Dec 2020Exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi [pdf]
- Sep 2026Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers (2020)
- Dec 2020Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems
- Nov 2023Chinese spies had acces to Dutch chip maker NXP's systems for over two years
- Jan 2026Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Networks
- 13
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering
- Mar 2023ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
- Sep 2023AI Model Weight Providers Should Not Police Uses, No Matter How Awful They Are
- Oct 2024Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
- Dec 2025Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
- Jan 2026Claude's New Constitution
- Jan 2026Claude's New Constitution
- Sep 2026OpenAI Agents API
- 14
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2024ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
- Jan 2023ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
- Feb 2023ReAct – interesting paper on LLM prompt engineering
- Mar 2023Visual ChatGPT
- Mar 2023TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
- Apr 2023The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
- May 2023Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
- Jul 2023Langchain Is Pointless
- Sep 2023ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com
- Jul 2025Hierarchical Reasoning Model
- Sep 2026Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]
- 15
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022An Image Is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
- Jul 2021Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
- Mar 2022Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
- Mar 2023The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
- Jun 2023What Is a Transformer Model?
- Feb 2024The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
- Oct 2024Show HN: Doctly AI – Accurate AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Parser
- Jul 2025Baba Is Eval
- Sep 2026Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
- 16
Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Jun 2021Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 know your phone number?
- Feb 2021Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
- Jul 2021All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
- Jun 2022Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
- Apr 2023Record Labels Panic as A.I. Generated Song Becomes Hit Single
- Sep 2026“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
- 17
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
Hacker News threads
- May 2020GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Jun 2024Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
- Nov 2024Language models are few-shot learners (2020)
- Jun 2020GPT-3 and Scaling Trends
- Jul 2020Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3
- Oct 2020AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
- Oct 2022Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
- Feb 2023Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
- May 2023Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Parkinson's Biomarker
- Nov 2023Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- 18
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
- Dec 2022Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
- Apr 2022Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
- Jul 2022Am I doing it wrong? (OpenAI test)
- Mar 2023Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Knowledge Pollution
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Aug 2023GPT-4 Can't Reason
- Sep 2024Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning
- Oct 2025Ortega hypothesis
- Sep 2026GPT-6 Astra
- 19
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- May 2024Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Apr 2023Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
- Dec 2022Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?
- Feb 2023It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World
- May 2023LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: Stanford researchers
- Jul 2023Llama 2 – Meta AI
- Nov 2023Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
- Mar 2024“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study
- Feb 2025Understanding Reasoning LLMs
- Aug 2026Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
- 20
Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction
Hacker News threads
- 21
TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods
Hacker News threads
- 22
Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2021A dubious writing style emerging in science
- Aug 2021Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
- Jun 2023Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads
- Dec 2023Tortured conference series thriving in Computer Science
- Aug 2026Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- Aug 2026Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- Aug 2026Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- 23
Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) for Precise Zero-Shot Retrieval [pdf]
- Aug 2026Hypothetical Document Embeddings
- Jan 2023Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval Without Relevance Labels
- Jan 2023How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette
- Feb 2023I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation
- Mar 2023
- Sep 2023A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
- Dec 2023Build a search engine, not a vector DB
- May 2024Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
- Sep 2024Contextual Retrieval
- Aug 2026Don't classify, hallucinate!
- 24
GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022End-to-end deep learning methods beat production weather forecast accuracy
- Jan 2023GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
- Aug 2023Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens
- Dec 2023Predict the next frame. Results of training a transformer on "visual sentences"
- Dec 2025NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models
- Aug 2026DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
- 25
Featherweight Go
Hacker News threads
- May 2020Featherweight Go
- May 2020Featherweight Go (A generics design for Go)
- Dec 2021Featherweight Go [pdf]
- Jun 2020Philip Wadler's talk on generics for Go (“Featherweight Go”)
- Jun 2020The Next Step for Generics
- Nov 2020Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
- Jan 2021A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
- May 2021Oxide: The Essence of Rust (2020)
- Mar 2022How generics are implemented in Go 1.18
- Nov 2024Borgo Programming Language
- Aug 2026Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
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