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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.

Are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/05/uncontrollable-ai-artificial-general-intellige...
1•fittingopposite•40s ago•0 comments

Why Google is helping homeowners buy heat pumps

https://www.fastcompany.com/91601909/why-google-is-helping-homeowners-buy-heat-pumps
1•caseyf7•2m ago•0 comments

KingFy – an AI super app orchestrating 1,200 specialized agents

https://www.kingfy.app
1•kingfyapp•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Myjs An accidental pure-Python JavaScript interpreter

https://pypi.org/project/myjs/
2•byteface•4m ago•0 comments

Context Layer for Product Decisions

https://www.atisbo.dev
1•Coleg•5m ago•0 comments

Trump threatens to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/trump-fed-rates-jobs-trade.html
2•ivell•5m ago•0 comments

The Inter Typeface Family

https://rsms.me/inter/
1•azhenley•6m ago•0 comments

An Accidental Blackboard

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/an-accidental-blackboard.html
1•saikatsg•6m ago•0 comments

Mudlarking: Searching the River Thames for Historical Artifacts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBuixfZC-Ao
1•kzrdude•7m ago•0 comments

DartNative: Beyond the Limits of React Native and Flutter

1•iosephmagno•7m ago•0 comments

Reading About the (2008) Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review, by Andrew Lo (2012) [pdf]

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/lo.pdf
1•ggcr•8m ago•0 comments

C++26: Std:Hive

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/02/cpp26-hive
1•jandeboevrie•9m ago•0 comments

People Keep Sneaking into New York City Sewers. No One Knows Why

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/nyregion/manholes-sewers-nyc.html
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Continuous Profiling and UI Profiling

https://sentry.io/changelog/continuous-profiling-and-ui-profiling/
1•imangsgu•11m ago•0 comments

We built our house for LAN parties

https://lanparty.house/
3•fittingopposite•11m ago•0 comments

Controlling when CSS custom property values are computed

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/css-custom-property-compute-time/
1•ingve•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Genetic Distance Map

https://p.migdal.pl/genetic-distance-map/
1•stared•15m ago•0 comments

Another heart drug fails, previously assumed to be the vanguard of a new era

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/science/heart-drug-fails-novartis-pelacarsen.html
2•marojejian•16m ago•1 comments

Sci-Fi Films Are Becoming More Optimistic

https://storytellingprogress.substack.com/p/sci-fi-films-are-becoming-more-optimistic
1•paulpauper•17m ago•2 comments

User-guide-driven development with coding agents

1•hosamsh•18m ago•0 comments

The Kalshi Citizen Debt Forecast (CDF)

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/the-kalshi-citizen-debt-forecast-cdf.html
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

Norway could become the first country to ban AI smart glasses

https://neow.in/cmUxYnB3
1•bundie•21m ago•0 comments

Bootstrapping Mechanical Correctness

https://artagnon.com/art/regress
1•artagnon•22m ago•0 comments

A sourced timeline of 249 documented AI milestones

https://achievements.ai/
1•umermirzapk•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Openrobots

https://openrobots.vercel.app
1•richard_baecker•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a list of the vulnerabilities I got on my blog

https://seiji.reachpad.app/cves.html
1•sakuraiben•28m ago•0 comments

Least convenient location in Los Angeles

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2015/08/16_least-convenient-location-in-los-angeles-from-kore...
1•dima55•29m ago•0 comments

$15M effort to get to Alpha Centuri in 80K years

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/private-group-wants-to-launch-cheapest-possible-mission-to-...
2•gumby•29m ago•0 comments

Copernicus: Daily global sea surface temperature breaks 2024 record

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-daily-global-sea-surface-temperature-breaks-2024-record
3•gmays•31m ago•0 comments

Yogurt and human health across history, culture, and science

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1279770726001752
2•geox•33m ago•0 comments