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Decomposing a Payment Gateway Integration: A Real /Draft:Decompose Walkthrough

https://www.getdraft.dev/blog/decompose-payment-gateway/
1•mayurpise•4m ago•0 comments

SMG: The Case for Disaggregating CPU from GPU in LLM Serving

https://pytorch.org/blog/lightseek-smg/
1•gmays•6m ago•0 comments

Google UK staff vote to unionise in protest against Israeli military contract

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/05/google-ai-staff-vote-unionise-protest-israel-cont...
6•tmnvix•10m ago•0 comments

Are the Brooms Multiplying Yet?

https://maartenboudry.substack.com/p/are-the-brooms-multiplying-yet
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Score any website for AI design patterns

https://github.com/AdrianKrebs/ai-design-checker
2•hubraumhugo•13m ago•0 comments

Elixirkit – Building Desktop Apps with Elixir and Tauri

https://hexdocs.pm/elixirkit/tauri.html
4•auraham•14m ago•0 comments

How do you and your partner decide what to do on date nights?

2•meashik•14m ago•0 comments

US to safety test new AI models from Google, Microsoft, xAI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjp2we2j8go
5•devonnull•16m ago•1 comments

Kuo: OpenAI Rumored to be fast-tracking first "AI agent phone"

https://xcancel.com/mingchikuo/status/2051523855286776034
2•etothet•17m ago•0 comments

Offshore wind's clean energy potential remains largely untapped, say experts

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/offshore-winds-clean-energy-potential-remains-largely-untapped-...
6•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
4•elonlit•19m ago•0 comments

Brockman's 'deeply personal' diary becomes focus in Musk vs. Altman case

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/openai-president-personal-diary-musk-altman-case
3•newsuser•19m ago•1 comments

AI-Powered Earth Intelligence

https://www.planet.com/
2•doener•21m ago•0 comments

Remix 3 Beta

https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview
2•matvp•21m ago•0 comments

Open LLM Observability – vendor-neutral gen_AI.* semantic convention and SDK

https://github.com/sauravGit/open-llm-observability
2•packydarn•24m ago•0 comments

Three Inverse Laws of AI – Susam Pal

https://docs.platphormnews.com/docs/three-inverse-laws-of-ai-susam-pal-f2e5
1•bignerdlolz•25m ago•0 comments

FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html
4•pseudolus•25m ago•1 comments

While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993

https://lowendbox.com/blog/while-the-king-lives-an-old-c-programming-prank-in-gnu-hello-from-1993/
2•bananamogul•26m ago•0 comments

ML Engineer

1•packydarn•27m ago•0 comments

The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins

https://twitter.com/TheZvi/status/2051746108658033130
1•paulpauper•27m ago•0 comments

The Traveling Salesdog Problem

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-05-04-traveling-salesdog.html
2•wespiser_2018•27m ago•1 comments

Mazes and Monsters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters
1•Ariarule•29m ago•0 comments

Army Asks Missile Makers to Hack Their Own Weapons

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-great-110-trillion-wealth-transfer-wont-happen-any-time-soon-e8b...
1•fortran77•31m ago•1 comments

Reading Beneath the Surface: Social Cognition and Metacognition Benchmark

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/writeups/Reading-Beneath-the-Surface
1•tenywan•31m ago•0 comments

Shipping an AI app in 30 minutes: the build order matters more than the model

https://medium.com/@jpelton722/i-shipped-an-ai-app-in-30-minutes-the-trick-wasnt-the-ai-46a0e504d273
1•jpelton•32m ago•0 comments

PayPal plans 20% job cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/paypal-plans-job-cuts-as-fintech-s-new-ceo-pur...
3•DGAP•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freu CLI – Cut web agent token usage by 90% via compiled browser skills

https://github.com/freu-ai/freu-cli
3•0xintelligence•33m ago•0 comments

Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/tools-in-the-grass/
1•NaOH•33m ago•0 comments

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Implementing PCI Passthrough for Gaming

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
6•scottjg•33m ago•0 comments

Interactive US police bodycam map

https://badge.video
1•zoogies•34m ago•1 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.