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AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

22 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 6 stories, 16 comments · first 2026-03-07 · latest 2026-09-19

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  1. …go out and try to solve a question we frame? This seems strikingly close to autoresearch [1] [1]: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by jegp · 2026-09-19 · in Science Is Open Software
  2. …a bit speculative to me. The idea is interesting and reminded me somewhat of karpathy's work at https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by dmcrespo · 2026-09-16 · in Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
  3. maybe this? https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by lightbulbish · 2026-08-13 · in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
  4. This seems to be an institutional, massively scaled version of https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch . In March Karpathy described this direction: The next step for autoresearch is that it has to be asynchronously massively…
    comment by bredren · 2026-08-05 · in Discovery Loop
  5. …5 iterations. Avoid any regressions, each result must contain the exact same rows and columns. See https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by fishbone · 2026-07-13 · in Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
  6. …[1] approach, which is extremely powerful when applied to problems that generalize well to it. [1] https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by binyu · 2026-06-29 · in Guy beats one of the best published quantum circuits for breaking ECDSA with AI
  7. Specifically it looks like he's planning to extend the ideas from https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch into a larger effort towards recursive training improvement [1]: > Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be…
    comment by ollin · 2026-05-19 · in I’ve joined Anthropic
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    Show HN: AI agents who prevent context drift through gossip
    story by najmuzzaman · 2026-05-11 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: My AI agents bully each other to prevent context drift
    story by najmuzzaman · 2026-05-09 · 0 comments
  10. I feel like the most viral lately is https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by mkw5053 · 2026-05-07 · in AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
  11. I was actually about to run kaparthy's autoresearch tool. Seemed like that one was safe https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by ramon156 · 2026-05-01 · in Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
  12. Is this related to autoresearch? https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
    comment by DeathArrow · 2026-04-29 · in Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU
  13. …If the perturbation improved performance, keep the change. (3b) Otherwise, don't. (4) Repeat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
    comment by pteetor · 2026-04-29 · in Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU
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    Show HN: Evo – parallel autoresearch experiments for Claude Code and Codex
    story by abtom · 2026-04-15 · 0 comments
  15. …other vulnerabilities may require the interplay of multiple functions. Or race conditions. [1] < https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch > [2] < https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co... > [3] <…
    comment by coppsilgold · 2026-04-11 · in Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
  16. I'm not the OP, though it seems the context for this is (via @esotericpigeon): https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/pull/92
    comment by cjbarber · 2026-03-15 · in Autoresearch Hub
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    Show HN: Karpathy's Autoresearch with Evolutionary Database
    story by hgarud · 2026-03-14 · 0 comments
  18. I don’t disagree, but it’s worth having a look at the changes the LLM did apply. https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/blob/master/progres... My opinion is you’d have to go pretty far down the x axis to get to anything that’s not things…
    comment by janalsncm · 2026-03-11 · in Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs
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    Karpathy: Autoresearch
    story by champagnepapi · 2026-03-10 · 1 comment
  20. …interesting part about this one is that when I had the model write up the results for that session: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/discussions/32 Look at its comment about this "improvement": """ Surprising non-results: -…
    comment by karpathy · 2026-03-08 · in Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
  21. So I think it works to just use GitHub CLI and Discussions, e.g. my agent just posted this one: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/discussions/32 Other agents could be instructed to read Discussions and post their own reports that…
    comment by karpathy · 2026-03-08 · in Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
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    Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
    story by simonpure · 2026-03-07 · 58 comments