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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.

How Big Should a Terraform Root Module Be?

https://newsletter.masterpoint.io/p/how-big-should-a-terraform-root-module-be
1•mooreds•49s ago•0 comments

Open SOTA Registry

https://www.codesota.com
1•devy•3m ago•0 comments

Treasury bonds are becoming less special

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/treasury-securities-bonds-lustig
2•toomuchtodo•3m ago•0 comments

Austerity denial and the mystery of Britain's shrunken state

https://www.ft.com/content/910288e8-5ad1-4f09-90fb-36c3efe275e0
2•JumpCrisscross•6m ago•0 comments

A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
1•DamnInteresting•6m ago•0 comments

Do I Believe in Global Warming?

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-i-believe-in-global-warming.html
2•activatedgeek•7m ago•0 comments

Riverdiff brings the visual side-by-side diff of GNOME Meld to the browser

https://riverdiff.pages.dev/
1•qkhhly•7m ago•0 comments

Acadia License Reasoning

https://acadia.engineering/license/faq
1•gurjeet•9m ago•0 comments

An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree
1•blueshoess•11m ago•0 comments

Try to beat this AI writing detector

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/08/25/ai-detectors-like-pangram-are-ev...
3•eyehurtsme•13m ago•0 comments

An explorable cyberpunk city almost out of ASCII characters

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/lone-game-dev-builds-an-explorable-cyberpunk-city-almost-entirel...
1•ohjeez•13m ago•0 comments

Implementing Webmentions

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/implementing-webmentions
1•cdrnsf•13m ago•0 comments

Why and How Cloudflare Built Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-that-connects-cloudflare-to-the-internet/
1•cloudup•16m ago•0 comments

Tech Choices

https://inessential.com/2026/08/24/tech-choices.html
2•frizlab•18m ago•0 comments

Anduril is aquiring startups like crazy, this explains why

https://startupwiki.substack.com/p/anduril-explained
4•skiski•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ducky Media for macOS, private cloud hosting for your audio library

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ducky-media-client/id6761693259?mt=12
1•jayct•25m ago•0 comments

Improving matrix multiplication with MacBook and a proof assistant

https://github.com/bsd-developer/matrix-math-publish
2•bsddeveloper•25m ago•0 comments

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability
2•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

Google Aims to Boost AI with Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/google-aims-to-boost-ai-with-purchase-of-spirit-airl...
1•bookofjoe•27m ago•1 comments

vLLM-iOS: 88% Faster Multi-Agent Inference on iOS

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/continuous-batching-on-an-iphone.html
2•mips_avatar•28m ago•3 comments

The State of AI Disclosure 2026: what 1,088 EU sites' chat widgets say

https://disclosureproof.com/research/state-of-ai-disclosure/
1•coldpress•29m ago•0 comments

I Stabilized Never Type

https://blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/
1•birdculture•29m ago•0 comments

AWS Powers PyPI and the PSF – The Python Package Index Blog

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-08-14-how-aws-powers-pypi-and-the-psf/
1•rbanffy•33m ago•0 comments

The Polars vs. SQL differences nobody is talking about – Quansight Labs

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/polars-vs-sql-differences
2•rbanffy•33m ago•0 comments

Sam Altman: we made a chip and it is fast

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2092339694210040187
3•william-evans•33m ago•1 comments

The Artifact Is Free, Assurance Is the Product

https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/08/13/the-artifact-is-free-assurance-is-the-product/
1•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

MREA – Open-source governance framework for multi-role AI agents

https://github.com/JairValle/mrea-framework
1•jairvallehdz•34m ago•0 comments

Remixatron – recreates Infinite Jukebox on the command line

https://github.com/drensin/Remixatron
2•gregsadetsky•37m ago•0 comments

AI, IPv6, and the future Internet at IETF 126

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/25/ai-ipv6-and-the-future-internet-at-ietf-126/
1•m_montazeri•41m ago•0 comments

Logging in Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/password-manager-login-difficulty/688396/
2•fortran77•42m ago•2 comments