Why “Neurons” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Let me quote the opening paragraph of the paper: "After many months studying neurons and circuits in image and language models, I’ve come to believe a network’s own mechanisms a…
by lukewarm707 · Oct 15, 2026
this article seems to take it on faith that neurons are aeasily findable, even if their meaning is tricky to untangle: it would be sharply improved by description of how the neu…
by QuadmasterXLII · Oct 15, 2026
A TLDR, since most comments here seem to misunderstand the result. The idea is: a model may only have 100M neurons or whatever. But there are infinite concepts in the world. The…
by x312 · Oct 15, 2026
Slop, neuron by neuron: the two neurons behind "not X, but Y"
by defencetechhn · Oct 15, 2026 · 1 points
What I envision is the ability to find the circuits and neurons evaluating morality and ethics and being able to figure out how they work at the boundaries and ensure safe defer…
by benlivengood · Oct 15, 2026
> When I retrain its original architecture, which still produces messy deep layers, and follow the least legible neurons I can find, they turn out to be overgrowing locally into…
by root_axis · Oct 15, 2026
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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "neurons" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "neurons" over time.
A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell, is a cell that is excitable, firing electric signals called action potentials. Neurons form neural networks in the nervous system, mainly in the central nervous system. Neurons receive and conduct impulses. They communicate with other cells via synapses, which are specialized connections that commonly use minute amounts of chemical neurotransmitters to pass the electric signal from the presynaptic neuron to the target cell through the synaptic gap. Read more on Wikipedia