AI & data

Links about ai & data that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 28
Candidates: 57
Types: 8
Median span: 6.6 yrs

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Books & learning 27 AI & data links 10 Hall · 17 Candidates Essays & writing 18 AI & data links 6 Hall · 12 Candidates Software & code 17 AI & data links 4 Hall · 13 Candidates Tools, games & demos 9 AI & data links 4 Hall · 5 Candidates Research & data 7 AI & data links 2 Hall · 5 Candidates Reference 4 AI & data links 2 Hall · 2 Candidates Sites & organizations 2 AI & data links 0 Hall · 2 Candidates Audio, video & images 1 AI & data link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates

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How to Write a Spelling Corrector

norvig.com Books & learning 21 submissions · 21 people · 16.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-09 Resurfaced 2022-03-06

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On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

norvig.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-16

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Lisping at JPL (2002)

www.flownet.com Essays & writing 22 submissions · 19 people · 16.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-05-22

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

idlewords.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2026-06-01

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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

academictorrents.com Reference 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2020-01-13

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Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks

karpathy.github.io Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2019-01-06

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Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable

projectnaptha.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2022-07-11

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

karpathy.github.io Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2023-08-28

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HTML5 Genetic Cars

rednuht.org Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 6 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2024-04-27

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A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function

neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2022-03-06

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Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015)

setosa.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2022-10-29

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A Course in Machine Learning

ciml.info Books & learning 8 submissions · 7 people · 10.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-07 Resurfaced 2018-06-02

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Quick, Draw

quickdraw.withgoogle.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2021-03-29

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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)

camdavidsonpilon.github.io Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2018-02-28

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Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers

github.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 8 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2020-01-12

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NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)

bellard.org Software & code 14 submissions · 12 people · 5.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-09 Resurfaced 2021-05-22

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Python Data Science Handbook

jakevdp.github.io Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-02

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There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence

intelligence.org Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2020-06-03

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To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018)

www.quantamagazine.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-03

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Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)

medium.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-10 Resurfaced 2022-10-26

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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

arxiv.org Research & data 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-25

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Google Dataset Search

datasetsearch.research.google.com Tools, games & demos 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-12

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A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python

iamtrask.github.io Books & learning 7 submissions · 5 people · 9.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2017-10-18

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Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

karpathy.ai Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-04

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Statistical Formulas For Programmers

www.evanmiller.org Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-13

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MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-14

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Apache Superset

superset.apache.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2024-02-26

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Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized

www.nature.com Research & data 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-08 Resurfaced 2022-08-06

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

idlewords.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2026-06-01

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Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

karpathy.ai Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-04

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On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

norvig.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-16

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Python Data Science Handbook

jakevdp.github.io Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-02

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Lisping at JPL (2002)

www.flownet.com Essays & writing 22 submissions · 19 people · 16.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-05-22

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Candidates

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Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees

www.ecosia.org Sites & organizations 17 submissions · 16 people · 13.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Moravec's paradox

en.wikipedia.org Reference 32 submissions · 31 people · 13.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-08-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Bitter Lesson

www.incompleteideas.net Essays & writing 36 submissions · 36 people · 7.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Neural Network Zoo

www.asimovinstitute.org Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-12-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

joelgrus.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-02-12

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Illustrated Transformer

jalammar.github.io Books & learning 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-12-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Probabilistic Models of Cognition

probmods.org Books & learning 12 submissions · 11 people · 11.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network

yacy.net Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A visual introduction to machine learning (2015)

www.r2d3.us Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 6.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming

colah.github.io Essays & writing 11 submissions · 9 people · 9.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-01-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Data Version Control

dvc.org Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity

same.energy Tools, games & demos 14 submissions · 14 people · 5.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-02-01

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Machine Learning Crash Course

developers.google.com Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft (2017)

web.stanford.edu Books & learning 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-12-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test

longbets.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 17.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-03-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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This word does not exist

www.thisworddoesnotexist.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-15

Needs:5 submissions

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20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time

stevehanov.ca Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 12.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-04-06

Needs:5 submissions

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Transformers from Scratch

e2eml.school Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-04-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

pjreddie.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-04-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms

www.autonlab.org Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-10-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology

colah.github.io Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-02-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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AlphaGo documentary (2020) [video]

www.youtube.com Audio, video & images 10 submissions · 10 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-09-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Show HN: Convert screenshots of equations to LaTeX

mathpix.com Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective

www.johnmyleswhite.com Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-07-11

Needs:5 submissions

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The Illustrated Word2vec

jalammar.github.io Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-18

Needs:5 submissions

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Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages

tesseract.projectnaptha.com Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

introtodeeplearning.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-02-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Natural Language Processing with Python updated for Python 3 and NLTK 3

www.nltk.org Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-09-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

nautil.us Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-03-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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NanoGPT

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 2.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-06-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

karpathy.github.io Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

horace.io Books & learning 8 submissions · 6 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-02-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization

rawgraphs.io Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-07-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?

writings.stephenwolfram.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-06-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search

github.com Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Robots Can’t Dance – Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated (2015)

nautil.us Essays & writing 4 submissions · 3 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-09-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Show HN: An open-source, Raspberry-Pi-based Siri alternative

jasperproject.github.io Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-01-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

github.com Software & code 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-09

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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