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Ask HN: Are you running production workloads in Pytorch eager mode?

2•stdcall83•1y ago
I have an idea for optimizations using a dedicated backend for pytorch. It only applies to eager mode execution. From my understanding, eager mode is used for development and debugging. Are there real production workloads that work in that way ? I assume people optimize by compiling graphs using JIT but then again, people are lazy...

WAIC 2026: a glimpse of embodied AI innovations, humanoid robots [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYHEq9_SM0
1•binyu•1m ago•0 comments

Software engineering at a proprietary trading company

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/optiver
1•alentred•1m ago•0 comments

Oh-My-Claudecode, Orchestration Layer That Removes Humans from the Build Loop

https://www.zhcinstitute.com/research/oh-my-claudecode-multi-agent-field-notes/
1•squirrel•6m ago•0 comments

TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool

1•SAWANs•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

2•antipurist•11m ago•0 comments

AGCX: Why AI Agents aren't assistants

https://www.agcx.org
1•Daviddstewartt•12m ago•0 comments

Autonomous Agentic Engineering Tools

https://rywalker.com/research/autonomous-agentic-engineering-tools
1•squirrel•13m ago•0 comments

Vero: Can AI Agents Build Formally Verified Software Repositories?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13522
1•ninadwrites•14m ago•0 comments

Roundtables: The "Censorship-Industrial Complex" Idea Shaping US Policy

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141399/roundtables-inside-the-censorship-industrial-...
1•joozio•15m ago•0 comments

Writing code isn't the bottleneck anymore, reading is

https://threedots.tech/post/understanding-code-is-bottleneck/
1•roblaszczak•16m ago•0 comments

Being 'good at business' can be bad for business – how enshittification happens

https://dwyer.co.za/static/being-good-at-business-can-be-bad-for-business-how-enshittification-ha...
1•sixhobbits•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Health medical messaging with ER7 pipe-hat and Rust

1•jph•24m ago•0 comments

The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message: 'Regain your humanity'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/california-openai-protester-wynd-kaufman
1•howard941•24m ago•0 comments

The 'Country Hicks' Who Refused $26M from an AI Data Center

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-center-rural-america-backlash-c0af4e16
1•impish9208•28m ago•1 comments

Deriving human size from fundamental constants

https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/2088283075801170383
1•MrBuddyCasino•28m ago•0 comments

What happened at Id Software with layoffs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA64Ogzm_VU
1•LucidLynx•30m ago•0 comments

AetherGrid – Distributed AI compute orchestration without K8s

https://github.com/wycliffRotich-dev/aethergrid
1•WycliffeRotich•30m ago•0 comments

Interface for AI agents was invented in 1978

https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/011-post.html
1•buffer_overlord•31m ago•0 comments

Punkt. MC03 Sovereign Smartphone Made in Europe

https://www.punkt.ch/products/mc03-premium-secure-smartphone
1•FinnLobsien•32m ago•0 comments

Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfhFmwcESRw
1•ronfriedhaber•33m ago•0 comments

Zig Day Seattle, WA #3

https://zig.day/usa/seattle/3/
1•birdculture•34m ago•0 comments

An AI agent can burn 100× the tokens of a chat turn

https://aicharts.grok.me/c/agent-tokens
1•echohive42•34m ago•1 comments

Lawnmower-Like Enzyme Rewinds Decades of Molecular Aging in Human Tissue

https://www.the-scientist.com/lawnmower-like-enzyme-rewinds-decades-of-molecular-aging-in-human-t...
1•KasianFranks•34m ago•0 comments

Reversal of protein chemical aging by enzymatic deglycation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75141-2
1•KasianFranks•36m ago•0 comments

30× faster binary multivector ColBERT late interaction in Vespa

https://oskrim.github.io/engineering/2026/08/13/chunked-hamming-maxsim.html
1•oskrim•36m ago•0 comments

Jane Street has paid up large to avoid its numbers leaking out

https://www.ft.com/content/28a51284-98cc-4767-a306-0540d265687f
4•tcp_handshaker•40m ago•1 comments

GGFWPi – read-only Raspberry Pi firmware and Secure Boot auditor

https://github.com/patapik/ggfwpi
2•patapik•41m ago•0 comments

Dead in the Water

https://www.slow-journalism.com/long-reads/dead-in-the-water
1•tkocmathla•43m ago•0 comments

AI Coding Without the Vibes

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
2•riskone•46m ago•1 comments

HN: HomeBrain – Your private local cloud, agent wired into everything

https://github.com/oalterg/HomeBrain
2•oalterg•48m ago•1 comments