R.I.P.
autoresearch2026 — 2026
Cause of death
Buried under its own issues
“Taken from us by a better idea.”
Python★ 99k mourners
Digging up
Locating the cemetery…
Here lie the side projects of
karpathy
This isn't a graveyard. It's an industry.
51
Buried
2
Survivors
2.6years
Avg lifespan
422,470
Mourners ★
51 gravesfirst fell Aug 2012
R.I.P.
nanoGPT2022 — 2025
Cause of death
The hype cycle moved on without it
“May its dependencies rest in peace.”
Python★ 64k mourners
R.I.P.
LLM101n2024 — 2024
Cause of death
Became a thin wrapper, then thin air
“Rest in /dev/null.”
★ 37k mourners
R.I.P.
llm.c2024 — 2025
Cause of death
Made obsolete by the next model release
“Shipped to localhost only.”
Cuda★ 31k mourners
R.I.P.
llm-council2025 — 2025
Cause of death
Starred by thousands, maintained by none
“Forever in our git log.”
Python★ 26k mourners
R.I.P.
minGPT2020 — 2024
Cause of death
Virtualenv lost to the ages
“TODO: write epitaph”
Python★ 25k mourners
nn-zero-to-hero
2022 — 2024
Cause of death
Outgrown by its own users
“Returned with exit code 0. Peacefully.”
Jupyter Notebook★ 25k mourners
R.I.P.
llama2.c2023 — 2024
Cause of death
Works on my machine. Machine died.
“Pushed to main, then to the grave.”
C★ 20k mourners
R.I.P.
char-rnn2015 — 2023
Cause of death
Every star a lit candle
“Shipped to localhost only.”
Lua★ 12k mourners
convnetjs
2014 — 2023
Cause of death
Followed along until the video ended
“Rest in /dev/null.”
JavaScript★ 11k mourners
R.I.P.
minbpe2024 — 2024
Cause of death
Forgot how it worked
“Here lies great potential and a half-written README.”
Python★ 11k mourners
R.I.P.
arxiv-sanity-preserver2015 — 2021
Cause of death
"I'll finish it this weekend"
“Taken from us by a better idea.”
Python★ 5.8k mourners
R.I.P.
neuraltalk22015 — 2017
Cause of death
Peaked on Hacker News
“May its dependencies rest in peace.”
Jupyter Notebook★ 5.6k mourners
R.I.P.
build-nanogpt2024 — 2024
Cause of death
Proof of concept. Concept not proven.
“May its dependencies rest in peace.”
Python★ 5.6k mourners
neuraltalk
2014 — 2020
Cause of death
Tutorial completed. Motivation not.
“Beloved side project. Sometimes opened.”
Python★ 5.5k mourners
R.I.P.
ng-video-lecture2023 — 2024
Cause of death
Died famous. Issues still open.
“Forever in our git log.”
Python★ 5.1k mourners
R.I.P.
makemore2022 — 2024
Cause of death
Its forks went on without it
“Returned with exit code 0. Peacefully.”
Python★ 4.5k mourners
R.I.P.
reader32025 — 2025
Cause of death
Saw someone else ship it first
“Its last words: "wip"”
Python★ 3.9k mourners
R.I.P.
rendergit2025 — 2025
Cause of death
Fame wasn't enough to save it
“It had so many plans in its issues tab.”
Python★ 2.5k mourners
R.I.P.
karpathy.github.io2014 — 2026
Cause of death
Got the job. Never updated it again.
“May its dependencies rest in peace.”
CSS★ 2.0k mourners
R.I.P.
cryptos2021 — 2021
Cause of death
Went to zero
“It worked on my machine.”
Jupyter Notebook★ 1.9k mourners
R.I.P.
arxiv-sanity-lite2021 — 2023
Cause of death
Day 4 of 100DaysOfCode
“Its last words: "wip"”
Python★ 1.7k mourners