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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 3mo 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?

starcast2026 3mo ago
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dominotw 3mo 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 3mo ago
Compiled resources for nerds are catnip. Hit that bookmark/upvote button to never get to it :)
- CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
  I wish this was more wrong.
- dominotw 3mo ago
  attention is all you need
- schmookeeg 3mo ago
  I feel seen. Straight to the "stuff to read later" bookmark pile/mausoleum :)
  - NDlurker 3mo 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 3mo ago
      Rookie numbers! You gotta pump those numbers up!
  - htek 3mo 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 3mo 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....
supern0va 3mo 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?
- mathisfun123 3mo ago
  100% correct (anyone on hn for longer than 3 months will recognize that this is exactly the culture here).
  - deleted 3mo ago
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- RobRivera 3mo ago
  Shitty comment? From my point of view the Jedi are Evil
- gjvc 3mo ago
  not shitty enough
- crossroadsguy 3mo ago
  That's just hn for you. Not that it's a good thing (as per me at least), but that's what hn is, no matter how much it (or few from here) tries to think/pretend otherwise.
- altmanaltman 3mo ago
  It actually got to the front page though? I think what's more ironic is that the top comment thread on this is devolving into a discussion about hacker news meta and nobody in the comments section has written even 1 line about what these papers are or the subject or how useful they/the website is. Yes that is correct.
- kristopolous 3mo 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.
martinAsdf 3mo ago
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alcheringa_97 3mo ago
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Hasz 3mo ago
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity close enough imo any apparently 400 voters too.
icc97 3mo 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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antonvs 3mo ago
There's a reason for the word "eternal" in "Eternal September".

by HAL3000 3mo ago

starcast2026 3mo ago

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dominotw 3mo 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 3mo ago

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

CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
I wish this was more wrong.
dominotw 3mo ago
attention is all you need
schmookeeg 3mo ago
I feel seen. Straight to the "stuff to read later" bookmark pile/mausoleum :)
- NDlurker 3mo 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 3mo ago
    Rookie numbers! You gotta pump those numbers up!
- htek 3mo 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 3mo 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....

supern0va 3mo 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?

mathisfun123 3mo ago
100% correct (anyone on hn for longer than 3 months will recognize that this is exactly the culture here).
- deleted 3mo ago
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RobRivera 3mo ago
Shitty comment? From my point of view the Jedi are Evil
gjvc 3mo ago
not shitty enough
crossroadsguy 3mo ago
That's just hn for you. Not that it's a good thing (as per me at least), but that's what hn is, no matter how much it (or few from here) tries to think/pretend otherwise.
altmanaltman 3mo ago
It actually got to the front page though? I think what's more ironic is that the top comment thread on this is devolving into a discussion about hacker news meta and nobody in the comments section has written even 1 line about what these papers are or the subject or how useful they/the website is. Yes that is correct.
kristopolous 3mo 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.

martinAsdf 3mo ago

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alcheringa_97 3mo ago

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Hasz 3mo ago

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

icc97 3mo 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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antonvs 3mo ago

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