karpathy/nanochat
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The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.
24 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 6 stories, 18 comments · first 2025-10-13 · latest 2026-08-24
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…small models or torturing yourself working the GPU for days per iteration trying to run things like https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat , which is hardly an educational experience. Renting cloud GPUs is expensive, and at this age the most…
comment by deepllm · 2026-08-24 · in I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch -
…same kind of experimentation into a training speedrun (and maybe loses some rigor on the way) [2] 1 https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/blob/master/dev/LOG.md 2 https://github.com/kellerjordan/modded-nanogpt
comment by wongarsu · 2026-04-05 · in Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs -
…might be working on other projects that aren't public yet (as part of his work at Eureka Labs). 1: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
comment by ayewo · 2026-01-28 · in A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks -
https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c The proof is in the pudding. Let's see your code
comment by reducesuffering · 2026-01-27 · in A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks -
I used this just now on https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat and here is the output site built from the wiki markdown: https://comforting-alfajores-8752fe.netlify.app/readme
comment by jackomelon · 2026-01-10 · in Show HN: Show HN: Ted Mosby – open-source Claude agent for architectural wikis -
…to do a SOTA model from scratch! If you relax the SOTA aspect, Karpathy's nanochat has you covered: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
comment by huevosabio · 2025-12-12 · in Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch? -
Related: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/pull/306
comment by nomilk · 2025-12-09 · in Python's random.seed(x) and random.seed(-x) are treated identically -
…teach me, someone who has real knowledge of the subject, not just something on Google. [1]: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
comment by AnonHP · 2025-11-21 · in nanochat.karpathy.ai -
Context: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
comment by conqrr · 2025-11-20 · in nanochat.karpathy.ai -
…nanochat will become the capstone project of the course LLM101n being developed by Eureka Labs. [0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
comment by leobg · 2025-11-03 · in Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) -
…neural networks) and all of the stuff on YouTube. Plus his GitHub. The recently released nanochat https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat is fantastic. Having minimal, understandable and complete examples like that is invaluable for anyone…
comment by gchadwick · 2025-11-02 · in Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) -
…us spend more time in the bits that aren't boring and are actually challenging and interesting. [0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks
comment by theshrike79 · 2025-10-16 · in Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction? -
…using standard AdamW." And I just looked into this nanochat repo and it's also how it's used here. https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/blob/dd6ff9a1cc23b38ce6...
comment by spyder · 2025-10-14 · in NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy -
I created this PR to make it easier for folks to train and serve it on any cloud (or their own K8s): https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/pull/18
comment by alex000kim · 2025-10-14 · in NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy -
There is a new repo of karpathy: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat . It's a full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase.
comment by liqilin1567 · 2025-10-14 · in Ask HN: Build Your Own LLM?