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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.

We benchmarked 5 ways to generate PDFs in Laravel

https://bladepdf.com/blog/laravel-pdf-generation-benchmark
1•bladepdf•1m ago•0 comments

Triple Product Rule of Partial Derivatives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_product_rule
2•srean•5m ago•0 comments

Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/
2•madrox•12m ago•1 comments

Anthropic shares details about how Claude's new watermarks will work

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-shares-more-details-about-how-claudes-new-watermarks-...
1•sbulaev•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I created a web browser using Claude, everybody hates it

3•roschdal•16m ago•3 comments

Free personalised attachment style quiz

https://tally.so/r/0QP0lj
1•ElysiumAbove•19m ago•0 comments

Dress Rehearsal for Life; ambition, self-myth and a cheque as heavy as the world [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2_zhS1uYY
1•devrob•19m ago•0 comments

Early Influences of Photography on Art – Part 1

https://www.artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial-impacts.html
1•breppp•25m ago•0 comments

Calorie tracker for my Garmin watch

https://ashu1461.com/posts/a-calorie-tracker-on-my-garmin-watch/
1•ashu1461•29m ago•0 comments

ActivityPub Won by Being Boring

https://o.ee/blog/activitypub-won-by-being-boring/
3•birdculture•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone got a deauthentication attack script?

1•emn4tor•30m ago•0 comments

Neo: A distraction-free word processor for authors, by a wannabe author

https://github.com/hughhowey/neo
1•jasonpeacock•30m ago•1 comments

Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]

https://xescu.re/keeta-consensus.pdf
1•xescure•31m ago•1 comments

Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-were-touch-bars-problems-software-rather-than-hardware/
1•ingve•33m ago•0 comments

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing
10•Jimmc414•35m ago•0 comments

Why AI agents need verified identity

https://chrisbergeron.com/2026/08/11/why_ai_agents_need_verified_identity/
2•speckx•36m ago•0 comments

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
13•firefax•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD

https://github.com/christensen143/claude-trofeo-hud
2•christensen143•38m ago•0 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
2•ingve•42m ago•0 comments

Book Review: The Escape Artist

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-escape-artist
1•paulpauper•42m ago•0 comments

No-New-Physics Consciousness

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/no-new-physics-consciousness
4•paulpauper•43m ago•1 comments

2026 Filing Season: Preliminary Observations on IRS Performance

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-109074
1•Jimmc414•44m ago•0 comments

Tyler Cowen: A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration

https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-conservative-case-liberal-immigration-policy
3•paulpauper•45m ago•0 comments

I wrote OSS for fun. They called it Exceptional Talent

https://ryoppippi.com/blog/2026-08-15-uk-gtv-en/
1•ryoppippi•46m ago•1 comments

U.S. Urges Apple Not to Buy Chinese Memory Chips

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-china-memory-chip-plan-57773a83
7•bookofjoe•52m ago•3 comments

How to Confuse Some SSH Bots

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260108-Confuse-Some-SSH-Bots/
2•Bender•52m ago•0 comments

The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-slop-backlash-is-actually-having-an-impact/
5•herbertl•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TokenLab MCP, model discovery, pricing, and native AI endpoint tools

https://tokenlab.sh/zh/mcp
2•tokenlabai•54m ago•0 comments

Agentic Development Fallacies

https://thuva4.com/blog/agentic-development-fallacies/
4•thuva4•54m ago•0 comments

Augmenting Long-term Memory (2018)

https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
3•re-framer•58m ago•0 comments