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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.

What insects can teach us about decision making

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260810-what-insects-can-teach-us-about-decision-making
1•Scrapemist•3m ago•0 comments

Pg_stat_ch: Automatic Postgres stat exports to ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_stat_ch-postgres-extension-stats-to-clickhouse
1•caffeinated_me•3m ago•0 comments

A Green Light for Crooks

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transpare...
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Will farm animals always suffer?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/will-farm-animals-always-suffer/
1•paulpauper•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I serve my website with a swarm of ESP32 microcontrollers on a shelf

https://github.com/Novotarskyi/ivan-bohun
3•disco_jack•17m ago•1 comments

'We are not lonely': Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y63dw2x3wo
1•gmays•23m ago•0 comments

Energy, surplus, economic process (December 2026)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800926002302
1•oliculipolicula•24m ago•0 comments

Brazil2026ElectionFilter

https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs
1•dmarto•30m ago•0 comments

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
1•remywang•33m ago•0 comments

AI Driven Testing

https://app.deltix.ai
2•oneounceman•33m ago•0 comments

Cox–Zucker Machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine
3•rolph•35m ago•0 comments

Delete DoorDash

https://deletedoordash.com/
1•megamike•37m ago•2 comments

We need your help to make a faster and more secure Monero node a reality

https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1vo7htb/we_need_your_help_to_make_a_faster_and_more/
1•Cider9986•38m ago•0 comments

Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
1•_josh_meyer_•48m ago•0 comments

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ipo-valuation-hinges-190-200-billion-2028-revenue-fore...
3•PessimalDecimal•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BeCharts – online chart maker (templates, CSV, PNG/SVG/PDF)

https://www.becharts.com/editor
1•neo_tang•54m ago•0 comments

How did a Usenet troll and encryption genius become a criminal mastermind?

https://magazine.atavist.com/2016/he-always-had-a-dark-side
1•firefax•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WMTrace – See how LLM text watermarks work (Anthropic just adopted one)

https://github.com/gtesei/llm-watermark
1•isacco•1h ago•0 comments

Someone is publishing a trove of zero-days

https://0day-rubbish.com/
2•dclavijo•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/14/openai-ditches-recall-style-screenshot-surveilla...
1•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

An Infamous Math Problem Closer to Being Solved by Encouraging AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-riemann-hypothesis-anthropic-openai-22f98a87
1•RyanShook•1h ago•0 comments

What I Learned from Playing "Spelling Bee"

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3750
1•mooreds•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nakso – Your Desktop Sketchpad

https://github.com/niklauslee/nakso
1•niklauslee•1h ago•0 comments

A coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1
1•lawrenceyan•1h ago•0 comments

Federal agents surveilled Minnesota unions in hunt for Antifa conspiracy case

https://www.startribune.com/federal-agents-led-by-jan-6-participant-surveilled-minnesota-unions-i...
3•hn_acker•1h ago•1 comments

Thank you to the people building these AI tools

1•bgilly•1h ago•0 comments

Yester World Asking for Help from Google De-Monitization and AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9QiBMdvgRE
3•InTheArena•1h ago•2 comments

AI productivity gains drive net CO₂ increase in global energy–economy model

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
7•littlexsparkee•1h ago•0 comments

Spaceship Service Outage Update

https://www.spaceship.com/blog/spaceship-service-outage-update/
2•anonu•1h ago•0 comments

Haitians in Springfield are required to report to ICE and wear ankle monitors

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/haitians-in-springfield-are-required-to-report-to-ohios...
15•hn_acker•1h ago•8 comments