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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,334 posts.
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WebVR Experiments
We’ve created a showcase of the amazing VR experiences developers are building on the web. To play with them, all you need is a browser.
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A guide to prompting AI, for what it is worth
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
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Build your own Siri locally and on-device
That doesn’t spy on you
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A visual exploration of vector embeddings
For Pycon 2025, I created a poster exploring vector embedding models, which you can download at full-size . In this post, I'll translate ...
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NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
NanoGPT Slowrun is an open effort to implement data-efficient learning algorithms; 5.5x data efficiency in the first week and improving.
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How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs
Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other, how LLMs run on real hardware, and how to parallelize your…
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Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
How Neural Networks can be used in graph data
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A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization
The basics of GPUs, profilers, distributed computation, and kernel optimization
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Emergent Features in 6.7B+ Param Transformers
When I attended NAACL, I wanted to do a little test. I had two pitches for my LLM.int8() paper. One pitch is about how I use advanced quantization methods to achieve no performance degradation transformer inference at scale that makes large models more accessible. The other pitch talks about emergent outliers in…
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AI Responses May Include Mistakes
The other day I wanted to look up a specific IBM PS/2 model, a circa 1992 PS/2 Server system. So I punched the model into Google, and got this:
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AI and the Ship of Theseus
Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?
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Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
[UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation of the partial derivative of the log-harmonic function below.
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Hacker News, Sans AI
I like HackerNews, but I don't love that so much of it has turned into discussion of a single topic: AI. This is a version of HackerNews, filtered to remove any article focusing on __AI__. Refreshes about every ten minutes.
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Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods
Bayesian statistics rely heavily on Monte-Carlo methods. A common question that arises is “isn’t there an easier, analytical solution?” This post explores a bit more why this is by breaking down the analysis of a Bayesian A/B test and showing how tricky the analytical path is and exploring more of t
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The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'
Don't let AI erode your focus.
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We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website
A genuine question on why we are not getting indexed by Bing.
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Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size
Posted by Yundi Qian, Software Engineer, Google Research and Mircea Trofin, Software Engineer, Google Core The question of how to compile faster an...
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Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
Taking the output of many dumb LLM search relevance judges and feeding the output to a decision tree to improve precision
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Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform
Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform guarantee API responses match your JSON schemas and tool definitions. Now in public beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1, this feature eliminates parsing errors and failed tool calls for production applications.
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Linear Regression
From zero to linear regression
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RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent
Robots are quickly becoming part of our everyday lives, but they’re often only programmed to perform specific tasks well. While harnessing recent advances in AI could lead to robots that could help in many more ways, progress in building general-purpose robots is slower in part because of the time needed to collect…
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ML Beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and Do-Calculus
Since writing this post back in 2018, I have extended this to a 4-part series on causal inference: * ➡️️ Part 1: Intro to causal inference and do-calculus [https://www.inference.vc/untitled] * Part 2: Illustrating Interventions with a Toy Example…
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New bioinspired robot flies, rolls, walks, and more
Developed at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies, a new robot can autonomously choose from a variety of motions to move through a complex environment.
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Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing
Detailed comparison table of cloud GPU providers for deep learning.
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LoRA Without Regret
How LoRA matches full training performance more broadly than expected.
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Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron paved the way for AI 60 years too soon (2019)
As the Faculty of Computing and Information Science celebrates its 20th year, Frank Rosenblatt’s prescient research into artificial intelligence underscores Cornell’s pivotal role in computing history.
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Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images
AUSTIN, Texas — Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audio