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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 MATRIX – 1950's Super Panavision 70 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZ6ycET5WY&list=PL3chMvVbsupSzQrk-lJBS8cpdIfGDbJfc&index=9
1•Bluestein•29s ago•0 comments

Columbia House, Mail-Order Media Company, Is Shuttering

https://consequence.net/2026/08/columbia-house-closing-down/
1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

Looking for Cofounder in Legaltech

https://santol.finance
1•bgajjela•1m ago•0 comments

Star Wars: A New Hope – A Visual Guide to Changes in the Disney+ 4K Version

https://thedigitalbits.com/features/articles/item/2144-sw-new-hope-disneyplus-4k-2019
1•dabber•3m ago•0 comments

Why the IBM PCjr Failed: The "Peanut" Disaster Stan Veit Ch. 24 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBem-H6ZLtY
1•oldnetguy•3m ago•0 comments

Cursor: Chat is all you need

https://twitter.com/mattyp/status/2089758434921160877
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Ideating Tragit

https://figbert.com/posts/ideating-tragit/
1•Bluestein•4m ago•0 comments

macOS Data Protection Keychain for Electron Apps

https://github.com/biw/keychain-store
1•biwills•8m ago•0 comments

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Cente...
2•cwwc•8m ago•0 comments

AI chip startup Etched doubles valuation to $21B in under a month

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-chip-startup-etched-valued-21-billion-latest-funding-round-...
1•porridgeraisin•9m ago•1 comments

How Wall Street Sussed Out That Situational Awareness Was on the Ropes

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/how-wall-street-sussed-out-that-situational-awareness-was-o...
1•scrlk•10m ago•1 comments

Take-home pay calculator with real county/city tax data

https://gross.money/
1•greenthumbdrew•10m ago•0 comments

Photoshop: Adding Features You Don't Need Since 1990

https://myadventuresasanillustrator.substack.com/p/photoshop-adding-features-you-dont
1•pavel_lishin•11m ago•0 comments

Screwworm Infections Get Worse, Government Unleashing Drone Army to Surveil Them

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/screwworm-infections-get-worse-government-unleashing-drone-ar...
1•hn_acker•15m ago•1 comments

You Trust 1000 Strangers Every Time You Deploy

https://daylight.ai/blog/you-trust-1000-strangers-every-time-you-deploy
1•aviramha•15m ago•0 comments

Fyrox Game Engine now supports wgpu

https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox/pull/927
1•linggen•19m ago•0 comments

NoWreck v0.4.0

https://github.com/AstralXVoid/NoWreck/
1•AstralXVoid•19m ago•0 comments

Can Haskell Become a Great Language for Data Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDVrUdbT2o
1•linggen•19m ago•0 comments

Reducing target directory size on nightly

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/18/reducing-target-dir-size-on-nightly/
2•linggen•19m ago•0 comments

One Person State – portable personal AI system

https://embassy.svit.la/p/one-person-state
1•promen_svitla•21m ago•0 comments

Every software company will become a dev tools company

https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-ai-harness/
1•tonkkatonka•21m ago•0 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
2•_djo_•21m ago•0 comments

Copia Institute Again Asks Court to Fix Contradictory Media Advertising Ruling

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/another-california-court-has-now-broken-media-advertising-so-...
1•hn_acker•22m ago•1 comments

Gmail Verified Sender Program eligibility and policies

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12467704?hl=en
3•ChrisArchitect•22m ago•2 comments

A 24-Year-Old Blew Up a $45B AI Fund

https://rubbishtalk.com/finance/how-a-24-year-old-blew-up-a-45-billion-ai-fund/
1•Mr_Kobayashi•22m ago•0 comments

Poetry Lovers' Page

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/
1•pablode•24m ago•0 comments

Paperless Cloud Backups

https://samsm.ch/paperless-cloud-backups/
1•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods See Them in Action

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/
2•_djo_•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How did Openrouter appreciate from –$1.3B to $7B+ in just 82 days?

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/stripe-openrouter-paypal
2•gulmothrowaway•25m ago•1 comments

If You Have Users, You Have to Market Your Programming Language

https://c3-lang.org/blog/you_have_to_market_your_programming_language/
1•kugurerdem•26m ago•0 comments