The self-improving lab notebook
You named it autoresearch, which is either a bold research agenda or the moment the experiment started assigning itself homework. Either way, the premise has excellent mad-scientist energy.
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Overall
81.9
/ 100
Roasts
CUDA with a side of humility
llm.c takes the grand language-model conversation and translates it into the language of kernels, memory, and compile errors: apparently even giant ideas must eventually fit through a pointer.
The committee meeting
llm-council turns model comparison into a parliamentary system, because one language model was apparently not enough bureaucracy for a single prompt.
The internet time machine
hn-time-capsule preserves old discussion as though online discourse were a fine wine. A charmingly ambitious attempt to make the comment section historically significant.
Archived before graduation
llm101n sounds like a complete curriculum, while its archived status gives it the energy of a semester that ended with an impressive final project and no sequel syllabus.
Category breakdown
Consistency
The supplied repositories show repeated substantial activity from 2024 through 2026 across multiple related projects, though the evidence does not establish a complete contribution history.
Impact
The portfolio centers on ambitious, distinctive educational and experimental machine-learning projects, including implementations, training-oriented work, and research-oriented tools.
Quality
Non-fork ownership, substantial project scope, clear specialization, and continued updates provide strong maturity signals; source-level engineering quality cannot be assessed from the available metadata.
Breadth
The work spans Python, CUDA, and Jupyter Notebook, with educational, implementation, experimentation, community-oriented, and information-retrieval project types, though the domain focus is concentrated.
Depth
Multiple major repositories show sustained ownership and meaningful scope, with activity distributed across foundational neural-network education, language-model systems, and research tooling.
Community
The supplied follower and star counts indicate substantial public attention, but community evidence is used only as a weak positive tie-breaker and does not raise the other categories.
Stats
52-week commit heatmap
151 active daysLanguage distribution
4 langs
- Python67%
- Jupyter Notebook17%
- Cuda8%
- Unknown8%
Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.
Numbers
63
Public repos
215796
Followers
367
Commits
1
History
Top repos
karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero
84
A substantial notebook-centered neural-network learning curriculum with clear educational scope and continued activity.
Jupyter Notebook · ★ 23919
karpathy/autoresearch
92
An ambitious Python research and automation project with very recent activity and unusually broad apparent experimentation scope.
Python · ★ 93515
karpathy/nanogpt
88
A focused Python implementation project centered on compact language-model experimentation, with sustained ownership and recent updates.
Python · ★ 62008
karpathy/micrograd
83
A compact foundational autodiff and neural-network project presented through notebooks, combining conceptual clarity with meaningful implementation scope.
Jupyter Notebook · ★ 17067
karpathy/llm.c
89
A substantial CUDA project targeting language-model work at a lower systems level, giving the portfolio notable computational depth.
Cuda · ★ 30765
karpathy/llm101n
72
An archived language-model education project with substantial apparent scope, though its archived status limits evidence of ongoing maintenance.
Unknown · ★ 37507
karpathy/nanochat
87
A large, active Python project focused on accessible language-model experimentation and tooling, with strong apparent ambition.
Python · ★ 57078
karpathy/llm-council
82
An active Python project exploring multi-model coordination or evaluation, with an unusual and distinctive premise.
Python · ★ 23813
karpathy/mingpt
80
A maintained Python language-model implementation project that reinforces the portfolio’s sustained focus on understandable, compact systems.
Python · ★ 24782
karpathy/hn-time-capsule
66
A smaller Python project built around preserving or exploring historical online discussion, showing useful thematic breadth beyond model implementation.
Python · ★ 668
karpathy/makemore
76
A Python project centered on generative modeling and language-oriented experimentation, contributing foundational depth to the portfolio.
Python · ★ 4173
karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver
73
A long-running Python research-information project that broadens the portfolio into literature discovery and preservation.
Python · ★ 5758
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Rated 2026-08-10 · rating-rubric/3 · aging