Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net
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HN · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 44 upvotes (top 21%)
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Partial The UI, demos, and tutorial are vibe-codeable, but the core idea of compiling arbitrary JavaScript into a differentiable ReLU network needs a novel compiler transform and a WebGPU backend that vibe coding alone would not reliably produce.
What it would actually take: The core is an AST-level transform that expresses comparisons, branches, and arithmetic as ReLU-based expressions, with a runtime that executes them as dense or sparse tensor ops. Making this general across real JavaScript requires compiler and numerical-methods expertise, and the WebGPU kernels need GPU programming experience to get good performance.
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Competitors mentioned: google/tracr
Concerns raised: Website omits why the project matters, Landing page mixes unrelated ideas, Readme and site overclaim, since it is a DSL not regular JavaScript
Feature requests: Explain the purpose on the landing page, Clarify the DEMOS label
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Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
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