Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWow, fun to find this trending on HN this morning! I am currently also working on the associated video lecture (as the next episode of my video lecture series here https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html ), where I will build nanoGPT from scratch and aspire to spell everything out, as with the earlier videos. Hoping to get it out in ~2 weeks or so.
It takes a bit of effort to setup and train a proper GPT-2 model, especially if you are not familiar with GPU drivers and python environment. Also don't try to train GPT-2 on your own machine as it takes days, even with a good gaming GPU. If you are interested in trying it out, but don't have the right GPU or OS, you can check out the guide I wrote on how I did it on Azure with T4 GPU…
"The code itself aims by design to be plain and readable: train.py is a ~300-line boilerplate training loop and model.py a ~300-line GPT model definition, which can optionally load the GPT-2 weights from OpenAI." Highly educational codebase if you're interested in learning the practical details of training and finetuning your own GPTs.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1653
- Total comments
- 342
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-03 | nanoGPT: The simplest repository for training medium-sized GPTs | isoprophlex | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-01-10 | The simplest, fastest repository for training and fine-tuning medium-sized GPTs | Terretta | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-01-11 | NanoGPTFirst breakout · Best thread | trekhleb | 1532 | 320 |
| 2024-06-11 | NanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training medium-sized GPTsLatest 20+ point return | ulrischa | 114 | 21 |
| 2025-09-17 | NanoGPT | nothrowaways | 2 | 0 |