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hacker-news-gpt-2
AI & Machine Learning2019–2020
minimaxir / hacker-news-gpt-2

hacker-news-gpt-2

Dump of generated texts from GPT-2 trained on Hacker News titles

AI & Machine Learning
Explore on GitHubRead Hacker News discussions
3Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
120GitHub stars
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What it is

Dump of generated texts from GPT-2 trained on Hacker News titles

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-04-26 16:07:12 UTC to 2020-01-23 18:02:45 UTC.

0122019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC220
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

7 sources
minimaxir·May 5, 2019
Notably, the 345M model (1.5 GB on disk) is big enough that it's pushing the limits of conventional GPUs, and an alternative method of finetuning the model (https://github.com/nshepperd/gpt-2/commit/47df6da611716b4826...) has to be used to prevent the GPU from going OOM. I'm working on tools to streamline GPT-2 text generation: I'm currently porting the code above to gpt-2-simple (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple) to allow easy finetuning/generation, and am also working on a way to quickly build an API/client for easily deploying GPT-2 to production and generating text at scale and cost effectively. Even the 117M model, managing CPU and RAM performance is tricky. But given the incredible results of just the 117M model (e.g. Hacker News titles from a retrained 117M model: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-gpt-2), I'm eager
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to put the 345M model through its paces.
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