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Building, evaluating, deploying, and using large language models and generative AI applications, including ChatGPT.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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202610,457 stories
GPT-6 Astra↗ openai.com · HN · 2081 comments · 2279 points · Sep 03, 2026
Claude Opus 5↗ anthropic.com · HN · 1334 comments · 1778 points · Jul 24, 2026
GPT-5.6↗ openai.com · HN · 1112 comments · 1561 points · Jul 09, 2026
GPT-5.5↗ openai.com · HN · 1056 comments · 1580 points · Apr 23, 2026
Microgpt↗ karpathy.github.io · HN · 324 comments · 1936 points · Mar 01, 2026
202510,637 stories
NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy↗ github.com · HN · 308 comments · 1523 points · Oct 13, 2025
GPT-5↗ openai.com · HN · 2482 comments · 2063 points · Aug 07, 2025
LLM Inevitabilism↗ tomrenner.com · HN · 1628 comments · 1773 points · Jul 15, 2025
Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 783 comments · 1481 points · Jun 19, 2025
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL↗ arxiv.org · HN · 1056 comments · 1351 points · Jan 25, 2025
20247,829 stories
OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB↗ arcprize.org · HN · 1755 comments · 1724 points · Dec 20, 2024
ChatGPT Search↗ openai.com · HN · 1252 comments · 1485 points · Oct 31, 2024
Learning to Reason with LLMs↗ openai.com · HN · 1261 comments · 1654 points · Sep 12, 2024
GPT-4o↗ openai.com · HN · 2366 comments · 3138 points · May 13, 2024
Meta Llama 3↗ llama.meta.com · HN · 923 comments · 2199 points · Apr 18, 2024
202311,834 stories
Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT↗ danluu.com · HN · 465 comments · 950 points · Dec 31, 2023
Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits↗ minimaxir.com · HN · 89 comments · 304 points · Dec 27, 2023
Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 237 comments · 800 points · Dec 25, 2023
How to make LLMs go fast↗ vgel.me · HN · 54 comments · 215 points · Dec 22, 2023
GPT-4↗ openai.com · HN · 201 comments · 499 points · Mar 14, 2023
20221,887 stories
Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature↗ twitter.com · HN · 139 comments · 400 points · Oct 31, 2022
Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI↗ github.com · HN · 102 comments · 414 points · Oct 10, 2022
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with legal language↗ sciencedirect.com · HN · 322 comments · 559 points · Sep 18, 2022
Using GPT-3 to explain how code works↗ simonwillison.net · HN · 147 comments · 385 points · Jul 09, 2022
Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?↗ waifulabs.com · HN · 226 comments · 455 points · Jan 12, 2022
2021707 stories
OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 105 comments · 374 points · Aug 15, 2021
GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model↗ github.com · HN · 146 comments · 636 points · Jul 04, 2021
GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models↗ github.com · HN · 127 comments · 561 points · Mar 21, 2021
Automating my job with GPT-3↗ blog.seekwell.io · HN · 101 comments · 479 points · Jan 27, 2021
GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free↗ eleuther.ai · HN · 252 comments · 725 points · Jan 18, 2021
20201,094 stories
Karpathy's MinGPT↗ github.com · HN · 102 comments · 374 points · Aug 17, 2020
How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations↗ jalammar.github.io · HN · 98 comments · 398 points · Jul 27, 2020
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test↗ lacker.io · HN · 234 comments · 453 points · Jul 19, 2020
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin↗ maraoz.com · HN · 526 comments · 1079 points · Jul 18, 2020
What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find↗ huyenchip.com · HN · 106 comments · 459 points · Jun 23, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models↗ ollaya.dev · HN · 145 comments · 609 points · Sep 25, 2026
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005↗ cryptocellar.org · HN · 447 comments · 735 points · Sep 22, 2026
GPT-6 Astra↗ openai.com · HN · 2081 comments · 2279 points · Sep 03, 2026
How to Write with an LLM↗ sockpuppet.org · HN · 420 comments · 768 points · Sep 17, 2026
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs↗ discourse.haskell.org · HN · 338 comments · 340 points · Sep 26, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

GPT-6 Astra↗ openai.com · HN · 2081 comments · 2279 points · Sep 03, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1↗ anthropic.com · HN · 1395 comments · 1419 points · Sep 01, 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber↗ blog.google · HN · 669 comments · 1160 points · Sep 02, 2026
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash↗ twitter.com · HN · 574 comments · 1016 points · Sep 10, 2026
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math↗ mathstodon.xyz · HN · 817 comments · 868 points · Sep 10, 2026
How to Write with an LLM↗ sockpuppet.org · HN · 420 comments · 768 points · Sep 17, 2026
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005↗ cryptocellar.org · HN · 447 comments · 735 points · Sep 22, 2026
Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)↗ bcantrill.dtrace.org · HN · 432 comments · 729 points · Sep 06, 2026
Muse Spark 1.3↗ developer.meta.com · HN · 454 comments · 691 points · Sep 02, 2026
Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs↗ bend-lang.com · HN · 327 comments · 616 points · Sep 17, 2026

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