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PSSA: a non-Transformer language model hand-written in Rust
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On September 30, 2026, a post about PSSA appeared on the Hacker News front page. The post describes PSSA as a non-Transformer language model written from scratch in Rust with no ML framework. Its architecture uses a recurrent state-space core, a 512-slot episodic memory bank, and plastic weights that can be rewritten at runtime. The only public information about the model comes from this one post, with no follow-up disclosed.
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Sep 30
- Hacker News front pagePSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
PSSA 是一个用 Rust 从零手写、不依赖任何 ML 框架的非 Transformer 语言模型，采用循环状态空间核心、512 槽 episodic memory bank 与可运行时改写的 plastic weights。
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