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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.

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/
1•redbell•27s ago•0 comments

Anthropic released a CLI to evaluate skills and plugins

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-evals
1•edonadei•1m ago•1 comments

QueryBrew: System-Agnostic SQL-to-SQL Query Optimization [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p4494-schmidt.pdf
2•matt_d•5m ago•0 comments

Project Blinkenlights

https://blinkenlights.de/en/
3•doener•6m ago•1 comments

Good Alternative to the Cloud

https://github.com/DeploCloud/deplo
2•idradev•7m ago•0 comments

Neom: The Largest Megaproject Collapsed [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbB3vFfiaVU
2•handfuloflight•7m ago•0 comments

Gov Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/governor-newsom-signs-student-backed-digital-literacy-bills...
2•hn_acker•7m ago•1 comments

Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/cold-take-amazons-new-encryption-method-still-doesnt-delive...
2•hn_acker•9m ago•0 comments

Dave Ditzel's keynote/AMA on Esperanto's odyssey

https://blog.aifoundry.org/p/dave-ditzels-keynoteama-on-esperantos
2•sxzygz•10m ago•0 comments

What Is Your P(doom)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)
3•consumer451•10m ago•0 comments

The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket

https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-investigations-iran-biden-google-foia/
1•sbulaev•14m ago•0 comments

An Algorithm for Proving Combinatorial Infeasibility

https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3788
2•E-Reverance•16m ago•0 comments

wolfSSL Announces wolfPSA

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfPSA
2•aidangarske•16m ago•1 comments

Michigan coal plant [J.H. Campbell] set to close was illegally kept open

https://www.freep.com/story/news/environment/2026/09/11/consumers-energy-campbell-power-plant-coa...
2•toomuchtodo•18m ago•1 comments

Meta Sets Up Super IC Teams

https://news.theuncommonexecutive.com/p/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-super
2•fagnerbrack•21m ago•0 comments

What Is an Agent Multiplexer?

https://clor.com/blog/what-is-an-agent-multiplexer
2•jacobgold•21m ago•0 comments

NASA: The National Artificial Stupidity Association (Omni 1985)

https://ia800903.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/5/items/omni-archive/OMNI_19...
2•mpweiher•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Claude Read Aloud – Hear Claude's Replies Instead of Reading

https://github.com/MichaelPGifford/claude-read-aloud
2•michaelgifford•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Loop Pedal for Video

https://github.com/haxybaxy/video-pedal
2•haxybaxy•31m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Changing Audio Restoration in 2026

https://audioconverterai.io/blog/ai-audio-restoration
2•peter_d_sherman•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Spanda – Sub-microsecond LLM epistemic uncertainty in Rust

https://github.com/Adarshent/Spnda
12•Bhupennayak•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues

https://github.com/mirza-rizvi/ResolveHQ
3•mirza_rizvi•33m ago•0 comments

FreelanceFend – AI web app and extension to screen freelance clients

https://www.freelancefend.com/
2•RezonReiTy•33m ago•0 comments

Rage Against the Machine

https://milelion.com/2026/09/11/rage-against-the-machine/
2•motionlessveloc•33m ago•0 comments

Pixel Wealth

https://consti.de/1-pixel-wealth/
3•con•34m ago•0 comments

The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/the-moon-may-have-formed-in-just-5-hours-new-simulatio...
4•bookofjoe•38m ago•1 comments

ASCII City Update 3: Maps and Exploration Update [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJyKjfB8fY
2•duck•38m ago•0 comments

On 'scaling up' and being the right size

https://tzovar.as/scaling-up-and-on-being-the-right-size/
3•kassner•39m ago•0 comments

The Latest Wealth Flex: Big Trees

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/style/the-latest-wealth-flex-big-trees.html
3•acdanger•40m ago•1 comments

Yojam: A macOS default-browser shim that routes URLs through a rule engine

https://github.com/fluffypony/yojam
2•birdculture•41m ago•0 comments