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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.

McDonald's sued for allegedly using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/07/mcdonalds-ai-prices-lawsuit
1•Brajeshwar•12s ago•0 comments

Do Liberals and Conservatives Behave Differently in Everyday Life?

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-13129-001.html
1•PaulHoule•20s ago•0 comments

Part of a police code for describing suspects

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Part-of-a-police-code-for-describing-suspects_fig4_228844649
1•Bluestein•1m ago•0 comments

HSBC plans job cuts across UK wealth business in AI push

https://www.ft.com/content/dd553fc2-532c-4afc-a773-47cd7f786260
1•cognoboffin•2m ago•0 comments

A Hands-Free Driving Gadget Drove an Old Prius Coast-to-Coast 99% Autonomously

https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-1000-hands-free-driving-gadget-drove-an-old-prius-coast-to-coast-...
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

IBM Anderon Quantum Foundry Automates Qubit Fabs

https://spectrum.ieee.org/anderon-quantum-fab
1•rbanffy•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pawl – Hooks that stop coding agents from deleting your home dir

https://github.com/ulukaya/pawl
1•ulukaya•3m ago•0 comments

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 7th Edition

https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-7/
1•pseudolus•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Attestlane – grounded AI for SoC 2 readiness

https://attestlane.to
1•cbt2026•4m ago•0 comments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html
1•digital55•4m ago•0 comments

This Blog Collects Examples of Control Panels

https://control--panel.tumblr.com/
1•karakoram•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Chelis, a tensor language agents can write and prove

https://github.com/Chelis-Lang/chelis
1•jeffreysmith•6m ago•0 comments

Bowel Cancer in Young People Is Rising – Help Find Answers in Major New Trial

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/bowel-cancer-in-young-people-is-rising-uk-public-can-help-find-answers...
1•karakoram•7m ago•0 comments

Cancer Rates Rising More Quickly Among Younger People

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/06/cancer-rates-rising-more-quickly-among-younger-pe...
1•karakoram•7m ago•1 comments

Post-mortem debuggable, minimal-size memory dumps on macOS

https://peteronprogramming.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/post-mortem-debuggable-minimal-size-memory-du...
1•donpedro1337•8m ago•0 comments

Pqless – fast less for parquet files

https://danodonovan.github.io/pqless/
1•piqufoh•8m ago•0 comments

Clean your kitchen vent hood

https://sals.place/blog/clean-your-vent-hood/
1•surprisetalk•10m ago•0 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
1•chabad360•12m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart Speaks to Jacob Coxon on the Existential Threat of AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLDjXy2kRA
1•TomGarden•13m ago•1 comments

Ad Lib Music Synthesizer Card

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/adlib.php
4•dnemmers•16m ago•0 comments

All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/all-the-numbers-amazon-prime-day-2026-powered-by-aws/
1•acronpolis•19m ago•1 comments

Forces of Nature

https://blog.42futures.com/p/forces-of-nature
1•danielrothmann•22m ago•0 comments

Workspace MCP v2 – Musings from the past 18 months building open source AI tools

https://workspacemcp.com/release-notes/v2
1•mooseisloose•22m ago•1 comments

Halo: Combat Evolved (For Original Xbox) Ported to Windows, Linux and Android

https://github.com/OpenCommunityEdition/OpenCE
1•softwaredoug•25m ago•0 comments

Google Playground

https://labs.google/playground
2•trollied•28m ago•0 comments

Google: Why we're backing America's existing nuclear plants

https://blog.google/company-news/why-were-backing-americas-existing-nuclear-plants/
2•MC995•29m ago•0 comments

I used my brain instead of AI – now CI runs 70% faster

https://shchoholiev.com/writing/use-your-brain-and-ai/
1•shchoholiev•30m ago•4 comments

How to Defend Against AI-Designed Viruses

https://warontherocks.com/how-to-defend-against-ai-designed-viruses/
1•crescit_eundo•30m ago•0 comments

Simulating V1 following Bressloff, Cowan et al.

https://heart.qri.org/retreats/2026-tepoz/emil-hall/bressloff-cowan-v1-simulation
1•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

Multithreaded array operations for TypeScript programs

https://github.com/geastack/parallel
1•arbayi•30m ago•0 comments