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Someone posts on X, "These are Ilya’s 30 papers", gives no source, doesn't say where he got it from, and isn't connected to either Ilya or Carmack (Ilya gave hi

by HAL3000 2mo ago

Someone posts on X, "These are Ilya’s 30 papers", gives no source, doesn't say where he got it from, and isn't connected to either Ilya or Carmack (Ilya gave him the list). Then someone vibe codes a barely usable website based on that, and it lands on the HN front page? Is this correct?

antonvs 2mo ago
There's a reason for the word "eternal" in "Eternal September".
starcast2026 2mo ago
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dominotw 2mo ago
they kind of mention the source on their website though " rumoured list of papers that Ilya Sutskever gave to John Carmack. " there is aslo manning book called illya list https://www.manning.com/books/sutskevers-list https://www.manning.com/books/sutskevers-list
youniverse 2mo ago
Compiled resources for nerds are catnip. Hit that bookmark/upvote button to never get to it :)
- CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
  I wish this was more wrong.
- dominotw 2mo ago
  attention is all you need
- schmookeeg 2mo ago
  I feel seen. Straight to the "stuff to read later" bookmark pile/mausoleum :)
  - htek 2mo ago
    Ah, the graveyard of "things I'll read when I have time". I know it well. Then there's the mass grave of "dead links to things I'll check against the Wayback Machine when I have the time to look them up to add back to the graveyard of things I'll read when I have time".
    - taude 2mo ago
      at least you haven't optimized a workflow to convert the page to markdown file, download locally into some folder that you watched 30 youtube videos on how to organize your knowledge graph....to never read later, or to burn 10s of Ks of tokens to build into karpathy wiki knowledge tree....
  - NDlurker 2mo ago
    One time my brother upgraded his RAM so he could keep more tabs open. I think he was up to a couple hundred.
    - akoboldfrying 2mo ago
      Rookie numbers! You gotta pump those numbers up!
supern0va 2mo ago
First year CS student excited to learn about a thing puts together a small website of academic papers, posts it to HN to share with others. Then someone makes a shitty comment. Is that correct?
- kristopolous 2mo ago
  No. It's quality control. This is a classic clickbait formula headline with 0 backing. I just typed "list 30 papers to get me started in machine learning" into an llm and got 27/30 of these... This page is an LLM prompt response as a list of jpegs with a fake title. You can probably just add "and prepare it as a webpage with image previews for each" ... I think we can do better than someone shitposting a sentence into openclaw and getting it to the frontpage. People on here are actually building 100 billion dollar companies, publishing in prestigious journals, maintaining transcontinental infrastructures with global reach... let's hear from them instead of a mac mini going burr for 15 seconds.
- fedeb95 2mo ago
  First year CD student excited to learn puts together a website, and more experienced guys makes a shitty comment that puts things into context. Then someone makes a funny comment mimicking its structure. Is that correct?
- unselect5917 2mo ago
  Many here mistake passive aggressiveness for civility. So does the rule enforcement.
- bartread 2mo ago
  It's always fun to remember how rude people were about Dropbox on here. More seriously though, in many ways HN is a pretty broad church. You're always going to get a spectrum of opinions, and some portion of people are always going to be particularly forceful about putting forth their opinion. Maybe it's a bad day, maybe it's habit, varies from person to person and day to day, etc. But I think, if you're posting something to HN (or, really, any large internet forum), negative feedback - and dismissive feedback - is something you need to be prepared for as part and parcel of the experience because it often is going to happen. Not that I agree with the person you're responding to - their remark struck me as quite a mean-spirited and unnecessary comment, and I very much prefer your perspective. Anyway, I've bookmarked the site so make of that what you will.
martinAsdf 2mo ago
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alcheringa_97 2mo ago
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Hasz 2mo ago
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity close enough imo any apparently 400 voters too.
icc97 2mo ago
Useful list, but just needs an awesome list with links: https://github.com/ianchanning/ilya-sutskever-recommended-reading https://github.com/ianchanning/ilya-sutskever-recommended-re...
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by HAL3000 2mo ago

antonvs 2mo ago

There's a reason for the word "eternal" in "Eternal September".

starcast2026 2mo ago

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dominotw 2mo ago

they kind of mention the source on their website though " rumoured list of papers that Ilya Sutskever gave to John Carmack. " there is aslo manning book called illya list https://www.manning.com/books/sutskevers-list https://www.manning.com/books/sutskevers-list

youniverse 2mo ago

Compiled resources for nerds are catnip. Hit that bookmark/upvote button to never get to it :)

CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
I wish this was more wrong.
dominotw 2mo ago
attention is all you need
schmookeeg 2mo ago
I feel seen. Straight to the "stuff to read later" bookmark pile/mausoleum :)
- htek 2mo ago
  Ah, the graveyard of "things I'll read when I have time". I know it well. Then there's the mass grave of "dead links to things I'll check against the Wayback Machine when I have the time to look them up to add back to the graveyard of things I'll read when I have time".
  - taude 2mo ago
    at least you haven't optimized a workflow to convert the page to markdown file, download locally into some folder that you watched 30 youtube videos on how to organize your knowledge graph....to never read later, or to burn 10s of Ks of tokens to build into karpathy wiki knowledge tree....
- NDlurker 2mo ago
  One time my brother upgraded his RAM so he could keep more tabs open. I think he was up to a couple hundred.
  - akoboldfrying 2mo ago
    Rookie numbers! You gotta pump those numbers up!

supern0va 2mo ago

First year CS student excited to learn about a thing puts together a small website of academic papers, posts it to HN to share with others. Then someone makes a shitty comment. Is that correct?

kristopolous 2mo ago
No. It's quality control. This is a classic clickbait formula headline with 0 backing. I just typed "list 30 papers to get me started in machine learning" into an llm and got 27/30 of these... This page is an LLM prompt response as a list of jpegs with a fake title. You can probably just add "and prepare it as a webpage with image previews for each" ... I think we can do better than someone shitposting a sentence into openclaw and getting it to the frontpage. People on here are actually building 100 billion dollar companies, publishing in prestigious journals, maintaining transcontinental infrastructures with global reach... let's hear from them instead of a mac mini going burr for 15 seconds.
fedeb95 2mo ago
First year CD student excited to learn puts together a website, and more experienced guys makes a shitty comment that puts things into context. Then someone makes a funny comment mimicking its structure. Is that correct?
unselect5917 2mo ago
Many here mistake passive aggressiveness for civility. So does the rule enforcement.
bartread 2mo ago
It's always fun to remember how rude people were about Dropbox on here. More seriously though, in many ways HN is a pretty broad church. You're always going to get a spectrum of opinions, and some portion of people are always going to be particularly forceful about putting forth their opinion. Maybe it's a bad day, maybe it's habit, varies from person to person and day to day, etc. But I think, if you're posting something to HN (or, really, any large internet forum), negative feedback - and dismissive feedback - is something you need to be prepared for as part and parcel of the experience because it often is going to happen. Not that I agree with the person you're responding to - their remark struck me as quite a mean-spirited and unnecessary comment, and I very much prefer your perspective. Anyway, I've bookmarked the site so make of that what you will.

martinAsdf 2mo ago

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alcheringa_97 2mo ago

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Hasz 2mo ago

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity close enough imo any apparently 400 voters too.

icc97 2mo ago

Useful list, but just needs an awesome list with links: https://github.com/ianchanning/ilya-sutskever-recommended-reading https://github.com/ianchanning/ilya-sutskever-recommended-re...

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