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computer science and AI research implementations

Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-28 → 2026-10-06), compared with the prior 5.3 months.

horizontal · 81 members · Data as of 2026-10-09

These products provide experimental machine learning architectures, mathematical formalizations, low-level systems code, and hardware engineering tools. They are primarily used by AI researchers, mathematicians, and systems engineers exploring technical frontiers. Unlike commercial developer SaaS, this cluster is distinguished by its academic, low-level, and theoretical research focus.

Metrics

Stage
heating
Recent count
64
Prior count
14
Total count
81
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.49
Crowding
0.25
Concentration
0.83
Opportunity
0.60

Opportunity components

Attention
0.49
Low crowding
0.75
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.17

Source split

github
47 (0.73)
hn
14 (0.22)
ph
3 (0.05)
yc
0 (0.00)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.73

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Monthly trajectory

Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
recurrent-looped-tranformer GITHUB 853 2026-09-12
electrical-engineering GITHUB 416 2026-09-20
Covalent-MAS GITHUB 337 2026-09-19
Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training HN 265 2026-03-18
MacMind HN 159 2026-04-16
C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm HN 111 2026-02-23
A-Survey-on-Looped-Transformers GITHUB 101 2026-09-09
integer-mult-bounds GITHUB 96 2026-10-07
STEPQuant GITHUB 57 2026-09-29
TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s HN 56 2026-09-29
An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes HN 55 2025-11-28
RLT GITHUB 51 2026-09-13
SHDL HN 48 2026-01-28
GLiFormer GITHUB 46 2026-09-11
spivak-lean GITHUB 42 2026-09-26
TRiP HN 38 2026-04-30
ComfyUI-YuE2 GITHUB 38 2026-09-10
ablation GITHUB 31 2026-09-23
G1-Emu GITHUB 30 2026-09-18
100t-DMA-FPGA-Based-RISC-V-SoC GITHUB 29 2026-09-30
digislicer GITHUB 26 2026-09-26
matrix-multiplication-all-fields GITHUB 25 2026-10-07
Aha-Looped-Transformer GITHUB 25 2026-09-15
Looped-DiT GITHUB 25 2026-09-29
pocketvla GITHUB 24 2026-09-10
Leica-Instant-for-haotian GITHUB 24 2026-10-04
lua-deobfuscators GITHUB 22 2026-09-12
pi-extensions GITHUB 20 2026-10-03
algorithm-practice-roadmap GITHUB 20 2026-09-27
MetaCog GITHUB 19 2026-09-20
recurrent-transformer GITHUB 18 2026-09-25
PhySpec GITHUB 18 2026-09-10
A udev implementation in Guile Scheme HN 17 2026-07-27
factorio-transformer GITHUB 17 2026-10-04
Hierarchos-Native GITHUB 17 2026-09-16
anno117_pipe_example GITHUB 17 2026-09-17
Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence HN 16 2026-01-06
LossLess-Scaling GITHUB 16 2026-10-01
nodered-industrial-automation GITHUB 15 2026-09-29
Turbo-dLLM GITHUB 15 2026-09-16
A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running HN 15 2026-05-05
pid-pressure-control GITHUB 15 2026-09-29
RTI GITHUB 14 2026-09-10
PoincareConjecture GITHUB 13 2026-09-28
scaling-exponents GITHUB 13 2026-09-15
mnist-from-scratch-to-pytorch GITHUB 13 2026-09-13
FastLanes based integer compression in Zig HN 12 2025-12-01
Flynt.js HN 12 2026-08-16
awesome-bend GITHUB 12 2026-09-18
understanding-opd-crosscoders GITHUB 11 2026-09-28