Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

lostmsu 45 points 10 comments September 29, 2026
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Inspired by minGPT for home experiments. Requires CUDA 13.4; build script is Windows only.

Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

jey

At that scale it seems like you could just solve the KKT conditions directly. Exaggerating but only a little

vjsrinivas

Interesting trend of labeling models after how big they are on disk vs how many learnable parameters they have.

w4yai

"hn1g.txt" => not available

_345

Trying to be a little less negative than the guy that got flagged, I too don't understand the motivation behind these projects. I've seen a hundred of them at this point- and each of them is probably worse and has less learning value than the one Andrej Karpathy made to teach people the building blocks involved in a GPT So, why do people keep making these? Asking genuinely

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