Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderGood job. Alas, the proliferation of different kinds of neural net architectures that work, over the past few years, is a sign that we lack a decent unifying theoretical framework that can explain, from fundamental principles, what works, what doesn't, and why. We're not there yet.
This is already one year old. I am wonder how much the zoo grew in 2017. What were the main network innovations? Capsules and the Transformer?
I have always absolutely hated this diagram and think it should go away. I have also never seen somebody who understands the content of the diagram share it as a useful pedagogical tool. For example, with CNNs, you are building up feature activation volumes based on the entire previous layer. The edges between layer N only connects to two nodes in layer N-1. What are the nodes even supposed to represent? This is not how CNNs works. This explains nothing…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 667
- Total comments
- 61
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-14 | The neural network zoo | zavg | 36 | 0 |
| 2016-09-14 | Neural Network Zoo | adamnemecek | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-09-19 | The Neural Network Zoo: A Cheat Sheet of AI Architectures | interweb | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-10-20 | The Neural Network ZooFirst breakout · Best thread | hgarg | 358 | 39 |
| 2017-12-19 | The Neural Network Zoo | ZeljkoS | 177 | 9 |
| 2019-06-25 | The Neural Network Zoo | Datenstrom | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-04 | The Neural Network Zoo (2016)Latest 20+ point return | DecayingOrganic | 87 | 13 |
| 2025-03-27 | The Neural Network Zoo (2016) | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-03-16 | Neural Network Zoo (2016) | vismit2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-03-18 | Neural Network Zoo | throwaw12 | 1 | 0 |