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Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

Hacker News Best 06 April 2026 7h ago
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
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Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks th
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