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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,335 posts.
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Growing up with AI
By Stefania Druga Graduate Student, Personal Robots Group LEGO Papert Fellow 2018
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Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017)
papad Hard to believe Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.” Christos Papadimitriou calls it “so hard to believe that it has been discovered five times and forgotten.” It…
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Attention Wasn't All We Needed
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones
Posted by Rahul Garg, Research Scientist and Neal Wadhwa, Software Engineer Portrait Mode on the Pixel smartphones lets you take professional-looki...
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Two Weeks of Colorizebot
About two weeks ago we released ColorizeBot to wander around Reddit. This Reddit bot has started by coloring images on r/OldSchoolCool and a day after, spread all over Reddit. The bot was based on a pre-trained neural network - More information on the netwrok can be found here. After
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Shape Rotation 101: An Intro to Einsum and Jax Transformers
Acknowledgements First, I would like to acknowledge my friends and kind internet strangers who helped me with this post. This post heavily adapts from ...
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Self Supervised Learning in NLP
An overview of self-supervised pretext tasks in Natural Language Processing
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Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning
Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning Garnelo et al, 2016 Every now and then I read a paper that makes a really strong connection with me, one where I can’t stop thinking about the imp…
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A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
Dive deep into OCR with Tesseract, including Pytesseract integration, training with custom data, limitations, and comparisons with enterprise solutions.
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SpaCy v2.2
Version 2.2 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library is leaner, cleaner and even more user-friendly. In addition to new model packages and features for training, evaluation and serialization, we've made lots of bug fixes, improved debugging and error handling, and greatly reduced the size of the library on…
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Effort – a possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference
A possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference. Adjust smoothly - and in real time - how many calculations you'd like to do during inference.
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The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?
Everyone’s been talking about it. JD Vance read it. What does it actually tell us?
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If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
One common take on the coding agents that I see goes something like this: “Sure, AI helps you output more code, but won’t the quality suffer?”
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We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI
The current paradigm will not lead to an overnight superintelligence explosion.
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The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void
WTF moment: Why my native OS refuses to return a "True" value.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown
Breaking down revenue growth, the consumer subscription businesses and the importance of partnerships to the API business
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The AI Hype Wall of Shame
Menu Home Editorial Collective Events Blog The AI Hype Report Design Justice AI Design Justice Labs The AI Hype Report Welcome to the AI HypeContinue reading
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AI is destroying my CS degree
I am a computer science student. I got a scholarship to study computer science and AI last year and I love it! It's something that I wanted to do since I was...
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Is outbound going to die?
HN Discussion
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Expertise in the age of AI
Junior engineers are expensive, both in salary and seniors engineers’ time. This cost was partially recouped through code contributions, but today, it’s more effective to directly maximize the output of your senior engineers. The hiring market reflects this trend: senior engineers have an easy time finding jobs, while…
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Reality Check
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and
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Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
Update, 29 April 2026 This post was picked up on Hacker News and crossed 100 comments. I love that this sparks emotions. As always, there is a fair mix of reactions, which is exactly what you would expect from HN. Scroll to the bottom for extra responses to some of the comments. … Cloud Next was intense. I wrote the…
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EURISKO Lives
Programming blog of Eugene
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Three major LLM releases in 24 hours
I’m a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there’s a lot to cover here. But first... a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times …
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LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request
Learn about Cohere models' ability to perform multi-step tasks, enhancing productivity and efficiency.