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Regular AI users are more likely to hold quality jobs

https://news.gallup.com/poll/714602/benefits-work-unevenly-distributed.aspx
1•giuliomagnifico•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an index to measure AI FOMO

https://aifomoindex.com
1•mertguvencli•2m ago•0 comments

Gulliver's Travels Imagined Machines Writing Books and Producing Knowledge

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/gullivers-travels-imagined-automated-machines-writing-books-a...
1•geox•6m ago•0 comments

Local Quantization and Multi-Back End Deployment with AMD Quark on Strix Halo

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/quark-strix-halo/README.html
1•ankitg12•10m ago•0 comments

Everyone Is Marketing with AI, and Nobody Is Listening

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/everyone-is-marketing-with-ai-nobody-is-listening/
2•vincent_s•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI admits response to Australian government hacks 'not good enough'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2qne2j88wo
2•chrisjj•11m ago•0 comments

German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism

https://news.osna.fm/german-military-intelligence-uses-ai-to-screen-bundeswehr-applicants-for-rig...
3•AmazingTurtle•12m ago•0 comments

Building Browser as a Service Infrastructure

https://blog.glazer.ee/posts/building-glazer-disposable-browser/
3•hexdecoct•12m ago•0 comments

'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-acti...
5•YeGoblynQueenne•15m ago•0 comments

Voynich manuscript pages wrongly bound?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/06/voynich-manuscript-research-pages-wrongly-bound
3•bloak•19m ago•0 comments

Press Release: European Processor Initiative Concluded

https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/press-release-european-processor-initiative-successf...
1•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

Nuxt 4.6

https://nuxt.com/blog/v4-6
2•petr25102018•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Nameplate, a name and a status bar color for every VS Code window

https://rowhitswami.github.io/nameplate/
2•rxhitswami•23m ago•0 comments

Drones hit two ships off coast of Bulgaria, sinking one

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1•novaRom•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Manage Skills, Memories, and Agents.md Files Across Tools and Projects

https://github.com/mjalalimanesh/skillhub-local
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Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown

https://orazioscicolone.it/posts/2026-10-04-meetantirez/
1•skiwithuge•26m ago•0 comments

Fx 40

https://github.com/antonmedv/fx/releases/tag/40.0.0
1•medv•27m ago•0 comments

Render IA: renders de arquitectura con inteligencia artificial

https://renderia.com
2•eddieweng•27m ago•0 comments

Pratītyasamutpāda: The 2,500 Year Old Rule Behind Einstein and CRDTs

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1•thunderbong•30m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscriptions-offer-5x
3•nsoonhui•31m ago•0 comments

SPUR: New standard for tracking AI tools' use of publishers' content

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1•giuliomagnifico•32m ago•0 comments

WSP MCP – Free MCP Plugin for WordPress

https://github.com/bilalnaseer/wsp-wordpress-mcp
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MVCC and Replay-Based Rebasing OCC (Re2OCC)

https://6it.dev/blog/radical-mvcc-and-replay-based-rebasing-occ-re2occ-80742
2•no-bugs•34m ago•0 comments

Every country has its own Internet now

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/10/04/the-web-of-walls-01086201
2•Animats•36m ago•1 comments

Bei Stau: Retungsgasse (move-over lane) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfiLITNZudE
1•Rygian•37m ago•0 comments

Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1143813/bringing-predictive-analytics-to-the-agentic-...
1•joozio•40m ago•0 comments

Karl Deisseroth on winning the 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiiKmHpoQjE
1•gilfoyle_7•40m ago•0 comments

Europe is pouring billions into space. Can Glasgow's satellite industry keep up?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2kedyp348lo
1•zeristor•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Purify-edge, DOMPurify without jsdom that runs on Cloudflare Workers

https://github.com/anzal1/purify-edge
1•AnzalAbidi•49m ago•0 comments

Scaling Kubernetes Workloads with Node Swap

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/10/05/scaling-kubernetes-workloads-with-node-swap/
1•frostbyte7•51m ago•0 comments
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Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ

https://www.youtube.com/live/uul6hZ5NXC8?si=mKxZJy2xAD-rOc3g
44•solarmist•1y ago

Comments

solarmist•1y ago
I'm really hoping Modular.ai takes off. GPU programming seems like a nightmare, I'm not surprised they felt the need to build an entire new language to tackle that bog.
mirsadm•1y ago
GPU programming isn't really that bad. I am a bit skeptical this is the way to solve it. The issue is that details do matter when you're writing stuff on the GPU. How much shared memory are you using? How is it scheduled? Is it better to inline or run multiple passes etc. Halide is the closest I think.
solarmist•1y ago
What are you skeptical of? I believe the problem this is solving is a framework that's not CUDA that allows low level access to the hardware, makes it easy to write kernels, and is not Nvidia only. If you watch the video you can write directly in asm if you need to. You have full control if you want it. But it provides primitives and higher level objects that handle common cases.

I'm a novice in the area, but Chris is well respected in this area and cares a lot of about performance.

pjmlp•1y ago
There are already plenty of languages in CUDA world, that is one reasons it is favoured.

The problem isn't the language, rather how to design the data structures and algorithms for GPUs.

solarmist•1y ago
Not sure I fully understand your comment, but I'm pretty sure the talk addresses exactly that.

The primitives and pre-coded kernels provided by CUDA (it solves for the most common scenarios first and foremost) is what's holding things back and in order to get those algorithms and data structures down to the hardware level you need something flexible that can talk directly to the hardware.

pjmlp•1y ago
C, C++, Fortran, Python JIT from NVidia, plus Haskell, .NET, Java, Futuhark, Julia from third parties, and anything else that can bother to create a backend targeting PTX, NVVM IR, or now cuTile.

The pre-coded kernels help a lot, but you don't have to use them necessarly.

melodyogonna•1y ago
Yes, the problem isn't language, it is the entire stack. I think people focus too much on Mojo while ignoring the actual solution Modular has built, which is MAX. The main idea here is that MAX provides a consistent API for both library authors (e.g vLLM, Ollama) to target, as well as for hardware vendors to integrate with - so similar to LLVM.

Basically, imagine if you can target Cuda, but you don't have to do too much for your inference to also work on other GPU Vendors e.g AMD, Intel, Apple. All with performance matching or surpassing what the hardware vendors themselves can come up with.

Mojo comes into the picture because you can program Max with it, create custom kernels that is JIT compiled to the right vendor code at rumtime.

diabllicseagull•1y ago
It is a noble cause. I've spent ten years of my life using CUDA professionally, outside the AI domain mind you. Most of these years, there was a strong desire to break off of CUDA and the associated Nvidia tax on our customers. But one thing we didn't want was to move from depending on CUDA to depending on another intermediary which would also mean financial drain, like the enterprise licensing these folks want to use. Sadly, open source alternatives weren't fostering much confidence, either with their limited feature coverage or just not knowing if they will be supported in the long term (support for new hardware, fixes, etc.).
pjmlp•1y ago
Also while as language nerd I find Mojo cool, given NVidia's going full speed ahead with Python support in CUDA as announced at GTC 2025, to the point of designing a new IR as basis for their JIT, very few researchers will bother with Mojo.

Also what NVIDIA is doing has full Windows support, while Mojo support still isn't there, other than having to make use of WSL.

melodyogonna•1y ago
Why? Will the new Nvidia Python stuff work on AMD GPU and other non-nvidia accelerators?
pjmlp•1y ago
It still remains to be seen how much that will happen to Mojo and MAX, while most researchers are using CUDA anyway, and best of all, it works on their laptops, which cannot be said for AMD GPU and other non-nvidia accelerators.

Naturally assuming they are using laptops with NVidia GPUs.

catapart•1y ago
My mistake completely, but I thought this was going to be something to do with a new scheme or re-thinking of graphics programming APIs, like Metal, Vulkan or OpenGL. Now I'm kind of bummed that it is what it is, because I got really excited for it to be that other thing. =(
pjmlp•1y ago
That is already taking place with work graphs, and making shader languages more C++ like.
ttoinou•1y ago
Seems like with it you will be able to compile and execute one code on multiple GPU targets though
ashvardanian•1y ago
There is a "hush-hush open secret" between minutes 31 and 33 of the video :)
refulgentis•1y ago
TL;Dr same binary runs on Nvidia and ATI today, but not announced yet
throwaway314155•1y ago
They desperately need to disable whatever noise cancellation they're using on the audio. Keeps cutting out, sounds terrible.
solarmist•1y ago
Yeah, the mic quality was terrible.
hogepodge•1y ago
This was the first time we ran an event in the office with this wireless mic setup. We're definitely aware of the problems, and will have them fixed for the next event.
Archit3ch•1y ago
> Other Accelerators (e.g. Apple Silicon GPUs): free for <= 8 devices

From their license.

It's not obvious what happens when you have >8 users, with one GPU each (typical laptop users).

threecheese•1y ago
This is covered by ARM which they consider CPU, and doesn’t fall into that clause. IOW no restrictions.