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Yes you can measure engineering

https://www.rubick.com/valuesum-metric/
1•meetpateltech•1m ago•0 comments

Security Flaw Placed 30 Years of DNA Evidence at Risk of Hacking

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/security-flaw-placed-30-years-of-dna-evidence-at-risk-of-h...
1•impish9208•5m ago•1 comments

The Impending, Inescapable Deluge of A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/29/technology/ai-chips-data-center-boom.html
2•bookofjoe•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fixed harness for comparing LLM agent memory systems

https://github.com/AML-memory/agent-memory-leaderboard
1•IreneAI•5m ago•0 comments

VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/vc-backed-startups-commit-more-fraud-and-researchers-think-they...
1•richardchilders•5m ago•0 comments

Mozilla's Inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report Is Here

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-state-of-open-source-ai-report/
1•nlpnerd•7m ago•0 comments

Stack Trace for Distributed Systems

https://github.com/leandromoreira/distributed-stack-trace/tree/main
1•dreampeppers99•14m ago•0 comments

Claude on Political Compass

https://utopiagov.com/blog/political-compass
1•makosst•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What cloud agents do you use?

1•mopatches•20m ago•0 comments

Cross compiling Swift (including SwiftUI) to WASM

https://github.com/patch-release/patch-swift
2•jasolomon•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DFAH-Bench – same agent decision, different tool paths

https://github.com/ibm-client-engineering/output-drift-financial-llms
1•raffisk•21m ago•0 comments

The Triangle Game, from Zero

https://muchmirul.github.io/conjectures/multicolor-ramsey/
1•jdkee•25m ago•0 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/692886292/
1•rramadass•25m ago•1 comments

Waymo Bites Passenger

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbGsc_yicao/
6•liamnorm•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn a Nintendo Joy-Con into a Codex Micro Alternative

https://github.com/Jinjiang/joy-con-codex-micro
1•jinjiang•26m ago•0 comments

China Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of Power

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/china-crosses-energy-milestone-as-coal-falls-below-50-...
2•thunderbong•27m ago•0 comments

ImHex: Visualizing Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
1•zdw•28m ago•0 comments

Adam Aleksic: Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT? [video]

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_aleksic_why_are_people_starting_to_sound_like_chatgpt
4•fagnerbrack•32m ago•1 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology" (2005)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
41•jamesgill•32m ago•8 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/finding-zombies-in-our-systems-a-real-world-story-of-cpu...
1•fagnerbrack•33m ago•0 comments

YouTube AI slop prevention targeting known good channels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1yHmeLPy8
4•savrajsingh•33m ago•0 comments

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/
3•Brajeshwar•34m ago•0 comments

A Cross-Platform Rust UI Framework via Qt's Bridging Technology

https://www.qt.io/blog/rust-ui-framework-via-bridging-technology
1•mellosouls•36m ago•0 comments

An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hello-getoptsargs
1•supermatou•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NoDiff, a framework that lives in your monorepo

https://github.com/hbbio/nodiff
1•hbbio•41m ago•0 comments

Binomial Expressions

https://blog.oup.com/2026/07/binomial-expressions/
1•jruohonen•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)

https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuit
1•alberto-m•43m ago•0 comments

The Seven-Action Documentation Model

https://passo.uno/seven-action-model/
1•theletterf•43m ago•0 comments

RFC/The future of Abstract Wikipedia

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/The_future_of_Abstract_Wikipedia
2•quuxplusone•44m ago•1 comments

The Extras Are Tired

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/07/influencer-job-controversial-nantucket-store/688132/
1•thm•44m ago•1 comments
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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.