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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.

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Photographing Air Force Base and Equipment

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-unlawfully-photographing-air-...
1•737min•50s ago•1 comments

Databases Were Not Designed for This

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases/
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

James Bosworth on the 'Orange Wave' Happening Across Latin America

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/james-bosworth-on-the-orange-wave-happening-ac...
1•mooreds•3m ago•1 comments

Alex Bores' AI Policy Framework for Congress [pdf]

https://www.alexbores.nyc/files/Bores_AI_Framework.pdf
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Andrej Karpathy's microgpt as a Triptych

https://karpathy.art/
1•stared•12m ago•0 comments

Chinese National Arrested for Illegally Photographing Military Aircraft at AFB

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-arrested-jfk-international-airport-federal-charge...
1•737min•14m ago•1 comments

Exodus, from former Mass Effect devs, couldn't look more like Mass Effect

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/exodus-the-sci-fi-rpg-from-former-mass-effect-devs-couldnt-look...
1•evo_9•17m ago•0 comments

Ancient amber reveals a true bug equipped with claws, a highly unusual feature

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ancient-amber-reveals-true-bug.html
1•bookofjoe•17m ago•0 comments

The bull case for graph DBs in law

https://alanyahya.com/writing/bull-case-graph-dbs-law
2•alansaber•18m ago•0 comments

Microsoft offers voluntary employee buyout/retirement for 7% of U.S. workforce

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-first-voluntary-retirement-program-for-us-employe...
2•mgh2•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RoboAPI – A unified REST API for robots, like Stripe but for hardware

https://github.com/amitb-quantum/roboapi
1•xmas123•26m ago•0 comments

Lumitime Automata – The Most Amazing Digital Clock Is a Machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LTInOMdjs5o
1•thunderbong•28m ago•0 comments

David Choi's Mars FX Collapse Sparks Global Hunt for Almost $600M

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/hedge-fund-collapse-sparks-global-hunt-for-alm...
1•simonpure•29m ago•1 comments

Is your meditation posture making things worse?

https://mvmnt.substack.com/p/is-your-meditation-posture-making
1•awakenmyrub•31m ago•0 comments

Performance of the Wren Programming Language

https://wren.io/performance.html
2•birdculture•32m ago•0 comments

Giving AI Agents Database Access Is Way Harder Than It Looks

https://querybear.com/blog/architecture-of-querybear
2•dispencer•36m ago•0 comments

The xAI exodus: Meet the people who have left Musk's AI company

https://www.fastcompany.com/91531084/inside-the-xai-exodus
4•littlexsparkee•50m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?

2•coreyp_1•50m ago•1 comments

2FA: A dedicated two-factor authenticato to securely manage one-time passwords

https://codeberg.org/979/2fa
2•thunderbong•51m ago•0 comments

How to Export Your ChatGPT Conversation History (and Use It)

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lisa-core-ai-memory-libra/dmgnookddagimdcggdlbjmaobmoofhbj
2•AmarDahmani•53m ago•0 comments

Great moments in American advertising history

https://www.wsj.com/business/us-advertising-history-great-moments-418a8284
2•hhs•53m ago•0 comments

H.R.8470 – Surveillance Accountability Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8470/text
3•gigel82•55m ago•1 comments

Block-f prevent accidental edits

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/block-f
2•modinfo•57m ago•0 comments

Study: Does the brain work like an LLM in predicting words?

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/april/does-the-brain-work-like-an-llm-in-pr...
2•hhs•59m ago•0 comments

GPT 5.5 sets new record in proofreading benchmark

https://revise.io/errata-bench
2•artursapek•1h ago•1 comments

How professional wrestling prepared Linda McMahon

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/linda-mcmahon-profile
2•hhs•1h ago•0 comments

After call from Beijing, China's auto industry races to embed AI in everything

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-auto-industry-races-embed-ai-line-with-beijing-...
1•akyuu•1h ago•0 comments

Tell HN: The problem with Opus .7 /thinking is not token consumption. It's speed

2•ericol•1h ago•0 comments

FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)

https://github.com/manankharwar/fusioncore
6•kharwarm•1h ago•0 comments

$8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children

https://www.science.org/content/article/simple-house-may-help-prevent-multiple-fatal-diseases-afr...
3•gmays•1h ago•0 comments