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Show HN: Cant – Library written in Rust that provides PyTorch-like functionality

https://github.com/TuckerBMorgan/can-t
47•TuckerBMorgan•3d ago
Hey! This is something i have been working on. A tiny neural networking lib to learn how something like pytorch works, and to improve my own coding standards.

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msgodel•16h ago
Oh that's pretty elegant. Good job.
RickarySanchez•15h ago
Any new rust based ML library is great in my book. I've taken a brief look at the candle tensor implementation and just took an even briefer look at the can-t tensor implementation. What was the reasoning behind a global equation to store all tensors grads etc ? My initial assumption would be that it might make more sense to store that data scoped within a `Graph` type or similar.
bwfan123•13h ago
Kudos, great start. Ambitious effort, for it to be successful you could zero-in on a specific application and make that better than pytorch for training/inference.

Many users of pytorch are scientists and folks only peripherally interested in software. For them, python scripting is great because of its low barrier to entry. The torch ecosystem is large, and consists of folks like that. They are unlikely to learn things like rust. So, instead of wholesale reimplementation of pytorch, a better bet would be to replace parts of pytorch that are slow and bloated. Those parts would be invisible to end-users, and would be a great candidate for a rust refactor.

Fast

https://www.catherinejue.com/fast
975•gaplong•11h ago•285 comments

Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301
47•susam•2h ago•12 comments

Ollama's new app

https://ollama.com/blog/new-app
259•BUFU•7h ago•136 comments

Figma will IPO on July 31

https://www.figma.com/blog/ipo-pricing/
142•nevir•6h ago•69 comments

The Cost of Security Debt (With Numbers)

https://rsolv.dev/blog/real-cost-security-debt-roi
6•Arubis•1h ago•1 comments

The math is haunted

https://overreacted.io/the-math-is-haunted/
152•danabramov•7h ago•56 comments

Vibe code is legacy code

https://blog.val.town/vibe-code
395•simonw•7h ago•239 comments

Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

https://optician-sans.com/
228•exvi•12h ago•50 comments

Pentagon Pizza Index

https://www.pizzint.watch/
65•exiguus•6h ago•29 comments

150 years of Hans Christian Andersen

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen
9•wholeness•7h ago•1 comments

Early universe's 'little red dots' may be black hole stars

https://www.science.org/content/article/early-universe-s-little-red-dots-may-be-black-hole-stars
58•rbanffy•7h ago•34 comments

Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits

https://spectrum.ieee.org/negative-capacitance-schottky-limit
17•jnord•2d ago•3 comments

Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Chennai, India

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sei/jobs/LeAtLYf-full-stack-engineer-typescript-react-gen-ai
1•ramkumarvenkat•3h ago

Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management

https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/Fixing-ctrl-c-in-terminal-apps-child-process-management
68•Callicles•1d ago•27 comments

A short post on short trains

https://shakeddown.substack.com/p/a-short-post-on-short-trains
67•surprisetalk•14h ago•88 comments

Problem solving often a matter of cooking up an appropriate Markov chain (2007)

http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/Markov_chain_tricks.pdf
216•Alifatisk•16h ago•67 comments

Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production

98•AbhinavX•12h ago•29 comments

Our $100M Series B

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b
654•spatulon•15h ago•447 comments

Emacs: The macOS Bug

https://xlii.space/eng/emacs-the-macos-bug/
99•xlii•10h ago•69 comments

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-widens-teen-social-media-ban-youtube-scraps-exemption-2025-07-29/
218•Brajeshwar•11h ago•319 comments

The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

https://www.htmlhobbyist.com/
232•janandonly•16h ago•127 comments

Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

https://github.com/trymeka/agent
69•ElasticBottle•14h ago•19 comments

Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

https://www.wiz.io/blog/critical-vulnerability-base44
99•waldopat•12h ago•61 comments

Writing memory efficient C structs

https://tomscheers.github.io/2025/07/29/writing-memory-efficient-structs-post.html
141•aragonite•15h ago•74 comments

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/
109•pera•18h ago•83 comments

Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
324•nateb2022•12h ago•197 comments

I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

228•cesargstn•15h ago•166 comments

Show HN: An AI agent that learns your product and guides your users

https://frigade.ai
58•pancomplex•15h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Open-source physical rack-mounted GUI for home lab

https://www.getubo.com/post/gui-for-raspberry-pi-inside-mini-racks
9•mmajzoobi•3d ago•3 comments

The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)

https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v004n06_1953-06
46•akkartik•9h ago•10 comments