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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.

1•Goose78•35s ago

Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists'

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec
1•bhouston•38s ago•0 comments

In Defense of AI Mandates

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-ai-mandates
1•cyndunlop•2m ago•0 comments

What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?

https://news.mit.edu/2026/agentic-ai-and-what-do-we-want-it-be-0630
1•sudo_cowsay•2m ago•0 comments

Brain's language network is more extensive than previously thought

https://news.mit.edu/2026/brain-language-network-more-extensive-than-previously-thought-0701
2•sudo_cowsay•3m ago•0 comments

Sebastian Mallaby: The AI Race Nobody Can Win, Foreign Affairs Interview [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQC6V8T8ry4
1•verdverm•3m ago•0 comments

Supreme Court rules privacy protections apply to cellphone location history

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-okello-chatrie-geofence-warrants-a3adee8a3fd32b8ea1b42eb...
5•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 4isX – A game to make the target from four digits

https://4isx.akhdan.dev/
2•akhdanfadh•13m ago•0 comments

The Age of Suspicion: Why AI Made Authenticity Expensive

https://bennorthmore.com/journals/welcome-to-the-suspicion-economy/
2•surprisefox•13m ago•0 comments

FuturePath – Sophisticated retirement planner with 50-state tax modeling

https://futurepath.essentialx.us/
2•maheshgattani•19m ago•0 comments

The Case Against Public Engineering Levels

https://i0exception.substack.com/p/the-case-against-public-levels
2•i0exception•20m ago•0 comments

The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/the-condition-that-causes-people-to-get-lost-in-their-own-home
6•billybuckwheat•21m ago•0 comments

Building an Intern

https://cra.mr/building-an-intern/
2•ghiculescu•21m ago•0 comments

Testers Wanted: Jam Pod – An iPod Classic Experience for Android

https://play.google.com/apps/internaltest/4701161138918790634
2•djampodev•22m ago•0 comments

Midjourney's Full Body Ultrasound [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nzzpUKhj1M
2•mikenew•22m ago•0 comments

"An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]

https://www.goldmansachs.com/static-libs/pdf-redirect/prod/index.html?path=/pdfs/insights/goldman...
2•aanet•24m ago•1 comments

Safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: mechanistic and public health perspective

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00512-X/abstract
3•paulpauper•24m ago•0 comments

A Silent Auction

https://mirrlees-auction.nuff.ox.ac.uk/
2•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap

https://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/RentControl/
3•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

Lean4Physics: Reasoning Framework for College Physics in Lean4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26094
2•soupspaces•26m ago•0 comments

Artificial Adventures

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/artificial-adventures/
2•jeffreyrogers•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you

https://github.com/alex-w-developer/GetBlocked
4•sudo_cowsay•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Document to Excel Converter

https://www.docupipe.ai/tools/pdf-to-excel
2•uri_merhav•31m ago•0 comments

An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ordinary-mind-ordinary-day
2•tintinnabula•32m ago•0 comments

America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/apple-prices-macbook-memory-shortage/687781/
4•voxadam•39m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Autonomous Home Services Businesses

https://rainslice.ai
3•edgware674•39m ago•1 comments

Deep Agent Code Capabilities

https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/code/overview
2•kristianpaul•39m ago•0 comments

Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security due to AI-hallucinated report

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/07/02/startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-...
4•dijksterhuis•39m ago•1 comments

GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-Q...
3•throwaway2027•41m ago•2 comments

An American Privacy Emergency

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902
45•flowercalled•41m ago•2 comments