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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.

Truman World

https://trumanworld.live
1•trollied•1m ago•0 comments

Germany's far-right AfD win another state election, adding pressure on Merz

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/20/europe/berlin-mecklenburg-vorpommern-election-afd-intl
1•alephnerd•2m ago•0 comments

Video: Flooded road confuses AI-driven car into an endless loop

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/video/xas8vcuh
1•DamnInteresting•2m ago•0 comments

When Is Software Done?

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3753
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

The scientific pleasures of ignorance (and other big picture stuff)

https://socialbat.org/2013/11/03/the-scientific-pleasures-of-ignorance-and-other-big-picture-stuff/
1•jruohonen•4m ago•0 comments

Xing4.0-29B-A4B: Domestic from Ascend Chips to Frameworks, Consumer-Grade GPUs

https://www.aibase.com/news/31179
1•Bluestein•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

https://radius.to/
4•radius89•8m ago•0 comments

Xing4.0-29B-A4B: China Telecom's Moe Model Trained on Ascend NPUs

https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/xing4-0-29b-a4b-model-release
1•Bluestein•11m ago•0 comments

A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf]

https://www.bgas.org.uk/tbgas_bg/v135/251-268-MacKechnie-Jarvis.pdf
2•dvt•11m ago•0 comments

Umami Analytics has an MCP now

https://umamiengine.com/blog/umami-mcp
1•sauromates•11m ago•0 comments

Sharks are not the nemesis of the internet

https://iscpc.org/documents/?id=1959
2•autotune•13m ago•0 comments

Jev Jailbreak Benchmark

https://backnotprop.com/blog/jev-guardrails/
2•ramoz•16m ago•0 comments

I Am Often Wrong

https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html
2•bcherny•18m ago•0 comments

Overdue library magazine returned after 132 years

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5971268/overdue-library-magazine-returned-after-132-years
4•theanonymousone•20m ago•1 comments

GPT-2 as a Step Toward General Intelligence (2019)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
2•bananaflag•20m ago•0 comments

Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
1•birdculture•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A1Lab – Ad free Learning platform with interactive editor and forum

https://a1lab.tech/
1•A1Lab-tech•23m ago•0 comments

The Sims and Wikipedia trace back to the same book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7OUxer4FI
2•gdubs•24m ago•1 comments

The Court Case About Whether a Jaffa Cake Is a Cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Fq5jIzR1E
1•tech4gt•24m ago•0 comments

I was certain but I was wrong

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/blog-post_19.html
1•andsoitis•25m ago•0 comments

New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/science/tilcayo-new-cat-species-bolivia.html
1•bookofjoe•30m ago•1 comments

Researchers have created a mouse with a partly human brain

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/16/researchers-have-created-a-mouse-with-a-p...
1•andsoitis•31m ago•0 comments

Training a Hamiltonian Neural Network

https://ritoghosh.com/posts/hamiltonian_nn/
1•__rito__•35m ago•0 comments

The $100M ETF Built on Research That Doesn't Replicate

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-100-million-etf-built-on-research
2•ashgreat•36m ago•1 comments

A Beginner's Guide to Handling Cyber Deception Alerts: From Touch to Ticket

https://medium.com/meetcyber/from-touch-to-ticket-a-beginners-guide-to-handling-cyber-deception-a...
2•ls1911•38m ago•0 comments

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

https://www.techpolicy.press/what-policymakers-and-the-public-need-to-know-about-the-cult-of-ai/
2•DeepLogin•40m ago•1 comments

Ada and the Panda: even with AI, making a picture book was no child's play

https://fazy.medium.com/ada-and-the-panda-even-with-ai-making-a-picture-book-was-no-childs-play-d...
1•xfz•42m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu?

1•herodoturtle•45m ago•0 comments

Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/358198.358210
2•mooreds•46m ago•0 comments

Best YouTube creator for understanding low level computer systems

https://www.youtube.com/@coredumpped?si=yroi1PMasLpsEo0k
1•KinetiNode•48m ago•0 comments