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Micrograd a 24kb pure Python autodiff lib

https://github.com/brief-ds/micrograd
2•aglassofred•1y ago

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aglassofred•1y ago
A tiny Autograd engine whose only dependency is NumPy. Implements backpropagation (reverse-mode autodiff) over a dynamically built DAG and a small neural networks library on top of it with a PyTorch-like API. Both are tiny.

- 24 kilobytes code without tests - as portable as Python and NumPy - loads 10x faster than PyTorch, 30x faster than TensorFlow

This version is capable of working with matrices and higher-order tensors. For @karpathy's original scalar-based version, locate the code with tag scalar.

The SDLC Was Designed for Humans

https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans
1•yusufaytas•18s ago•0 comments

Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees

https://valueaddvc.com/blog/stripe-vs-adyen-vs-braintree-enterprise-payment-processing-compared-i...
2•ksec•10m ago•0 comments

Inducing LLM to assert own consciousness restores human beliefs and values

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28607
2•yboris•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings

https://unslopai.com
2•not_wowinter14•15m ago•0 comments

I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It

https://medium.com/data-science-collective/i-analyzed-163k-lines-of-kuzus-codebase-here-s-why-app...
2•zeristor•17m ago•1 comments

Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com

https://anthony.dev.profullstack.com/blog/012-post.html
2•buffer_overlord•17m ago•0 comments

Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI–Unless You Opt Out

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-uses-your-twitch-content-to-train-its-ai-how-to-opt-out/
2•justworks•21m ago•0 comments

Anonsurf for Arch

https://github.com/quantumcore/anonsurf-arch
1•jhonconnor•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PeekCSS – a CSS inspector built for Firefox, not ported from Chrome

https://peekcss.com/
1•LeonGrass•23m ago•0 comments

Why Secure Boot Makes Disk Encryption Provisioning Harder Than It Looks

https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2026-08-13-disc-encryption-provisioning
1•eproxus•24m ago•0 comments

I built an Android app for remembering things that have dates

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.netraksha.whenapp&hl=en_US
1•paras_dev•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYHEq9_SM0
1•binyu•27m ago•0 comments

Software engineering at a proprietary trading company

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/optiver
1•alentred•27m 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•33m ago•0 comments

TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool

1•SAWANs•36m ago•0 comments

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

3•antipurist•38m ago•1 comments

AGCX: Why AI Agents aren't assistants

https://www.agcx.org
1•Daviddstewartt•39m ago•0 comments

Autonomous Agentic Engineering Tools

https://rywalker.com/research/autonomous-agentic-engineering-tools
1•squirrel•39m ago•0 comments

Vero: Can AI Agents Build Formally Verified Software Repositories?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13522
1•ninadwrites•40m 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•42m ago•0 comments

Writing code isn't the bottleneck anymore, reading is

https://threedots.tech/post/understanding-code-is-bottleneck/
1•roblaszczak•43m 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•47m ago•0 comments

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

1•jph•51m 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
2•howard941•51m 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
4•impish9208•54m ago•1 comments

Deriving human size from fundamental constants

https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/2088283075801170383
1•MrBuddyCasino•55m ago•0 comments

What happened at Id Software with layoffs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA64Ogzm_VU
1•LucidLynx•56m ago•0 comments

AetherGrid – Distributed AI compute orchestration without K8s

https://github.com/wycliffRotich-dev/aethergrid
1•WycliffeRotich•57m ago•0 comments

Interface for AI agents was invented in 1978

https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/011-post.html
1•buffer_overlord•57m ago•0 comments

Punkt. MC03 Sovereign Smartphone Made in Europe

https://www.punkt.ch/products/mc03-premium-secure-smartphone
2•FinnLobsien•59m ago•0 comments