Hacker Papers
- 01
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
- 02
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
- 03
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2018The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks
- Mar 2018The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Training Pruned Neural Networks
- Oct 2020The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2019)
- May 2019Smarter Training of Neural Networks
- Aug 2019Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
- Jun 2020Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?
- Jul 2021Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
- Oct 2022Substitute certain overhyped programming terms with more accurate replacements
- May 2023AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Apr 2026Show HN: SparseLab–real sparse training(CSR+custom kernel) in PyTorch, CPU-first
- 04
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
- 05
A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
- Aug 2015A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
- Aug 2015
- Sep 2015Algorithm can create new Van Gogh or Picasso in an hour
- Feb 2016Visual Turing Test
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Sep 2016Implementation of Neural Style Transfer in Python and Keras
- Mar 2017Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
- Nov 2017Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice
- Apr 2023Study: ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patients
- 06
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2018BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
- Apr 2023Bert: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
- Nov 2018TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks
- Feb 2019Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT
- Mar 2019Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
- Sep 2019At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
- Mar 2023Google internally developed chatbots like ChatGPT years ago
- Jul 2023Ask HN: How to Break into AI Engineering
- Oct 2023Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
- Jun 2026Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
- 07
Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2019Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
- Mar 2018Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
- May 2018Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
- Feb 2019A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what’s the problem?
- Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
- Jan 2020To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996)
- Apr 2020Ask HN: What are you learning?
- Feb 2021Ask HN: What mathematical background do I need to understand category theory?
- Apr 2021Category theory is a universal modeling language
- Nov 2022Applied category theory in chemistry, computing, and social networks [pdf]
- Sep 2024The Theory of Topos-Theoretic 'Bridges' – A Conceptual Introduction (2016)
- 08
The Case for Learned Index Structures
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017The Case for Learned Index Structures
- Dec 2017Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf]
- Dec 2017My Favorite Papers of 2017
- Feb 2018Chip advances require fresh ideas, speakers say
- May 2018An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sorting
- Nov 2018Optimal Shard Placement in a Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Cluster
- Oct 2020Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens
- Jul 2022Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Jun 2026"They're made out of weights"
- 09
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)
- 10
Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Dec 2018Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2020Understanding Deep Learning Requires Re-Thinking Generalization (2017)
- Dec 2016LSTM Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction
- May 2017Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, and Humanity
- Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
- Oct 2018The Mixed Track Record of Machine Learning Algorithms
- Feb 2020A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- 11
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2018When algorithms surprise us
- Mar 2018Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation
- Mar 2018The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: Artifical Life and EC Anecdotes
- Mar 2018Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
- Jun 2018Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?
- Nov 2018Evolved antenna
- Apr 2019Notes on AI Bias
- Mar 2021Lying to the Ghost in the Machine
- Jun 2021One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
- Aug 2022John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
- Jun 2023Own-Goal Football (2022)
- 12
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
- 13
Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2019Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution
- Feb 2019Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix
- Mar 2019Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
- Apr 2019Lisp Operating System (2015)
- Sep 2019OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]
- Dec 2019C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
- Mar 2021Post-Spectre Web Development, Editor's Draft, 2021-03-10
- Mar 2021Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
- Aug 2023Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
- 14
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
- 15
Java Generics are Turing Complete
Hacker News threads
- May 2016Java Generics Are Turing Complete
- Dec 2017Java generics are turing complete
- Feb 2018Java Generic Are Turing Complete
- Nov 2016The Unsound Playground: Java and Scala's Type Systems are Unsound
- Oct 2017Classification of the principal programming paradigms
- Apr 2019How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?
- Jun 2019Google/Oracle’s $9B Copyright Case Could Be Headed for the Supreme Court
- Jan 2021A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
- Sep 2021LLVM 13's new pass manager improves Rust's compile times by up to 20%
- Oct 2022From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
- Sep 2023When Zig Outshines Rust – Memory Efficient Enum Arrays
- 16
Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Jul 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Mar 2018Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
- Mar 2018The Role of Luck in Life Is Still Misunderstood
- Apr 2018Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
- Oct 2018The annoying habits of highly effective people
- Dec 2019Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
- Sep 2020Six Figures in 6 days
- Jun 2021Why Success is more Luck than Hard Work
- Oct 2023Private Equity Is Devouring the U.S. Economy
- Jun 2026Hacker News actively blocking SpaceX IPO submissions
- 17
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
- 18
Software Engineering at Google
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2019Software Engineering at Google (2017)
- Feb 2017Software Engineering at Google
- May 2021Software Engineering at Google [pdf]
- Feb 2017How terrible code gets written by sane people
- Apr 2017Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?
- Feb 2018Advantages of monolithic version control
- Mar 2019List of dead Google products, services, and devices
- Sep 2019How to do a code review
- Mar 2020Software Engineering at Google
- Oct 2020Ask HN: How is architecture practiced at FAANG companies?
- Jul 2022Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++
- 19
Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2024Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
- Jan 2019Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy [pdf]
- May 2019ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]
- Feb 2021Consensus Is Harder Than It Looks (2020)
- Apr 2023Transactions Aren't Everything
- Nov 2023Wrangling Monotonic Systems in TLA+
- Jan 2024RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
- Sep 2024Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
- Oct 2024An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
- Sep 2025Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs
- 20
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2021On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Jun 2024The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
- Apr 2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
- Apr 2017The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2017The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Nov 2018Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
- Aug 2021The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Nov 2021An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
- Nov 2022Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
- Jan 2023How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
- Jul 2025A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
- 21
How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
- Oct 2019Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
- Jan 2020A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- May 2020The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Sep 2023Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
- Dec 2024Willow, Our Quantum Chip
- Jan 2025Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work
- Mar 2026Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]
- 22
Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Aug 2016News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Oct 2019Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
- Mar 2025Optimizing ML training with metagradient descent
- 23
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]
- 24
Modular implicits
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Modular implicits for ad-hoc polymorphism in OCaml
- Mar 2016An OCaml manifesto – Problems and what's needed for widespread adoption
- Apr 2016OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda)
- Apr 2016OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda)
- Jun 2018Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
- Sep 2019A look back on OCaml since 2011
- Aug 2021Functional Programming in OCaml
- Dec 2021One Reason Typeclasses Are Useful
- Aug 2025OCaml as my primary language
- 25
In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
- May 2017Dave Patterson: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit
- Jun 2017The Age of Nvidia
- Aug 2017Google TPU Performance Analysis
- Feb 2018Cloud TPUs in Beta
- Apr 2019Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
- Feb 2023Introduction to FPGAs
- Oct 2024Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
- Apr 2025Google is winning on every AI front
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