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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...

The Saga of Haven De Milford

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/ZimExpt/TheSagaOfHavenDeMilford.html
1•ColinWright•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dont Wordle – a reverse word puzzle about preserving options

https://dontwordle.app/
1•lby910722•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Created Fake Employees to Test Exchange Server [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvIUJOMVRI
1•RicoElectrico•7m ago•0 comments

Mrs. Cotton

https://mrscotton.mjanssen.nl/2026/08/06/household-policy-update-patience-plastic.html
1•marc0janssen•7m ago•0 comments

MIT unveils a robot that flies and swims

https://www.cnn.com/world/mit-flying-swimming-robot-faav-spc-c2e
1•rramadass•8m ago•1 comments

Playing one composition until 2640, slowest organ concert made a chord change

https://apnews.com/article/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt-organ-aslsp-938b5a1d0bc3d8d0dec5cb...
1•1659447091•10m ago•0 comments

Getting old isn't fun: George RR Martin about depression amid further book delay

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/05/getting-old-is-no-fun-game-of-thrones-author-george...
1•theanonymousone•11m ago•0 comments

A study of Norwegian conscripts found 20th century IQ gains reversed after 1975

https://scienceblog.com/t-a-study-of-730-000-norwegian-conscripts-found-the-iq-gains-of-the-20th-...
2•ColinWright•12m ago•0 comments

How fast can you name that tune?

https://soundofsliver.com/
1•jausto•13m ago•0 comments

Nehir: A scrolling tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/apphane-dev/nehir
1•fanf2•14m ago•0 comments

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1•kanlabs•14m ago•0 comments

OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down

https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-openai-agents-rebuilt-a-secret-message-board-after-the-...
2•Gosper•17m ago•0 comments

The Disintegration Loops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disintegration_Loops
1•aphrax•18m ago•0 comments

Wolbachia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolbachia
1•inigyou•18m ago•0 comments

Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/technology/open-source-silicon-valley-china.html
1•Dwez•19m ago•0 comments

I Ran Out of Wanting

https://scienceisneato.substack.com/p/i-ran-out-of-wanting
2•theanonymousone•19m ago•0 comments

Star Scholar Resigns as Cambridge Announces Investigation into His Record

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/books/review/cambridge-jason-arday-resignation-investigation.html
2•JumpCrisscross•19m ago•0 comments

Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/proxmox-ve-arm-official/?
1•networked•20m ago•0 comments

Ryan, help me understand how to think about SpaceX as a business

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render
1•doener•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Safety Guardrails for Claude Code

https://github.com/choiyounggi/groundwork
1•dch0202•22m ago•0 comments

Portals into Orbs

https://ampcode.com/news/portals
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

Polynomial-Time Quantum Algorithm Proposed for Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf]

https://archive.cr.yp.to/2026-08-06/07:22:47/YsHY7T0pBzBPgb0dukGNgEWT5F24hHibVcr38xs7rhg/https/ep...
2•namjh•31m ago•0 comments

Everything is a UOp – reading the deep learning stack behind comma[dot]AI

https://ssenthilnathan3.github.io/blog/tinygrad/
1•nathaah3•35m ago•0 comments

Reddit is introducing new moderator:AI, also planning big changes for old Reddit

https://www.theverge.com/tech/975398/reddit-ai-rules-hub-moderator-old-reddit-developer-platform
3•Markoff•37m ago•0 comments

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have lowered RAM prices

https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/29/a-requiem-for-optane-intels-kv-cache-killer-that-c...
1•rbanffy•38m ago•0 comments

Interactive Dynamic Video (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f09VdXex3A
2•sinaatalay•39m ago•0 comments

Get Receipts for Your Predictions

https://lowtakes.com/
1•alfredmalmros•40m ago•0 comments

Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets 'later this summer'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/self-driving-taxis-approved-london-summer-2026...
4•roryirvine•45m ago•2 comments

Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Vy-jeff-dean-the-1-rule-for-building-in-ai
1•immighelper•46m ago•0 comments

AI

https://logicandlore-236.pages.dev/
1•naccis•46m ago•2 comments