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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.

The advent of capable AI tools has highighted a variant of Simpson's paradox

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117169038028698262
1•ColinWright•54s ago•0 comments

Australia's Nationwide Phone Outage Was an Embarrassing Failure

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/australias-nationwide-phone-outage-was-an-embarrassing-failure/
1•anonymousiam•2m ago•1 comments

My GE smart scale's body fat is just 1.5 × BMI − 17.5

https://aiandtractors.com/ge-cs10h-body-fat-formula/
1•Icons8•2m ago•0 comments

Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again

https://www.sammystraus.com/#using-llms-to-make-the-emacs-web-browser-great-again
1•sammy0910•3m ago•0 comments

The Night the Earth Shook, Strangers Started to Draw

https://sheets.works/data-viz/strangers-draw-maps
1•sebg•3m ago•0 comments

Intelligence Is the Primitive. Applications Are the Diffusion Layer

https://www.a16z.news/p/intelligence-is-the-primitive-applications
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

Running local large language models: not as difficult as you might think

https://vitaexmachina.substack.com/p/running-local-large-language-models
1•sebg•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?

1•prios8•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/
2•elyosh•7m ago•0 comments

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/
2•sebg•9m ago•0 comments

Buried in Meta's $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids' data

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/buried-in-metas-18b-settlement-is-a-legal-pass-on-kids-data/
2•sbulaev•11m ago•0 comments

Knowledge Health: observability for your knowledge base

https://falconer.com/notes/knowledge-health/
1•fagnerbrack•18m ago•0 comments

Why I Am Right About AI [by Paul "Claude" Gigot]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/paul-claude-gigot-why-i-am-right-about-ai/688434/
3•samizdis•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: T2 Linux Touch ID PoC

https://github.com/jmurth1234/t2-touchid-linux
1•jmurth1234•23m ago•0 comments

Situs Inversus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
2•sjclemmy•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I put 20 ad slots under a Harberger tax

https://anyonecanbuy.com/
2•nadermx•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ArtGram – a notation system for abstract paintings

https://artgraph.co/artgram
1•rituraj•31m ago•0 comments

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/
2•627467•31m ago•0 comments

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

https://github.com/calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks
2•calmrocks•32m ago•0 comments

I built a pure-Rust headless browser. No Chromium. No V8

https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1w07jov/i_built_a_purerust_headless_browser_no_chro...
2•syumei•32m ago•0 comments

Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license "vibe code"?

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html
2•WhyNotHugo•33m ago•0 comments

Intel previews future instruction-set documentaton

https://intel.github.io/SDM/announcement/2026/08/20/announce-preview.html
2•mmcloughlin•33m ago•0 comments

Outbid case study: auction became the ad (2026)

https://medium.com/@threadotter/outbid-case-study-auction-became-the-ad-2026-719bf85c3c7d
1•threadotter•34m ago•0 comments

Four reproducible vLLM parser failures that return 200 with the wrong tool call

https://ingot.tools/reports/parser-silent-failure
1•glitch003•36m ago•0 comments

Anomalyco/OpenCode & Aider-AI/aider Review

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
1•paretolaw•38m ago•2 comments

Show HN: IQ Routing – route every call to the cheapest model that holds quality

https://iq-routing.com
1•Georgeavvila•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Per Diem, a daily dice game like Balatro

https://perdiem.loch.tools
1•lwansbrough•38m ago•0 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
1•peteforde•40m ago•0 comments

The Minolta SR-T I kept for myself

https://robertmay.photography/journal/the-minolta-sr-t-i-kept-for-myself
1•robotmay•41m ago•0 comments

Agent Swarms Are a Distributed Systems Problem

https://www.trychroma.com/engineering/transactions
1•rescrv•45m ago•1 comments