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Surface Data vs. Deep Data [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk6lgHjjGp8
1•zetamax•1m ago•0 comments

The Siren Song of Illness

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/06/25/the-siren-song-of-illness-master-of-contradictions-je...
1•t0lo•3m ago•0 comments

The Missing Infrastructure Between AI Agents and the EVM

https://blog.bridgexapi.io/the-missing-infrastructure-between-ai-agents-and-the-evm
1•Bridgexapi•3m ago•0 comments

Fable: Two edges of one opinion, on a model switched off

https://rebraining.org/fable
1•Jakko-KAAMOS•5m ago•0 comments

'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/
3•momentmaker•11m ago•0 comments

Let's Destroy American Science

https://nasawatch.com/policy/lets-destroy-american-science/
3•voxadam•14m ago•0 comments

Russian families use AI to 'resurrect' loved ones killed in Ukraine

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy24v72n19o
2•breve•15m ago•0 comments

Monero Inflation Checker

https://www.moneroinflation.com/
1•Cider9986•18m ago•0 comments

Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx23kz7e76po
2•breve•20m ago•0 comments

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/13/nx-s1-5856385/sunscreen-skin-protection-bemotrizinol
7•mikhael•24m ago•0 comments

The "Best" HN Comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
2•embedding-shape•25m ago•0 comments

There is no such thing as an AI 'artist'

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/07/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-ai-artist/
3•mikelgan•27m ago•0 comments

The AI supply chain is a software supply chain with new failure modes

https://blog.r-lopes.com/newsletter/2026-06-03
2•dovelome•28m ago•0 comments

Fable 5: They switched off my AI mid-build. The timeline is the story

https://medium.com/@alirezarezvani/fable-5-anthropic-and-us-gorvernment-how-ai-export-controls-ju...
2•jungard•28m ago•0 comments

FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years

https://apnews.com/article/sunscreen-fda-bemotrizinol-ingredient-uva-protection-9b9c7e04b418b3c9c...
6•marc__1•29m ago•0 comments

The Future of Software Engineering Is Here; It's Just Not Evenly Distributed

https://twitter.com/jmugan/status/2065962078322438524
2•jmugan•33m ago•0 comments

Goldman and Morgan Stanley to Pocket $100M Each in SpaceX IPO Fees

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/spacex-ipo-stock-market-06-12-2026/card/goldman-and-morgan-stanl...
3•vismit2000•33m ago•0 comments

Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-era-soviet-union-pictures-martin-manhoff/
3•Cider9986•35m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's Economic Policy Framework [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzovbb/website/9ea607a5dd67c168093829b701f3a0a6d21156d5.pdf
2•jonbaer•36m ago•0 comments

Policy on the AI Exponential

https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential/epf
2•jonbaer•36m ago•0 comments

10th Gen Honda Civic Updates Are Signed with AOSP Test Keys

https://juniperspring.org/posts/honda-evil-valet/
3•librick•45m ago•1 comments

The Difference Between Rest and Idleness

https://idle.news/blog/on-the-difference-between-rest-and-idleness/
3•vinhnx•50m ago•0 comments

We're combatting AI scams with security, legislation and more

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/combatting-ai-scams/
3•gnabgib•50m ago•0 comments

XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/06/13/xp-era-windows-spotted-haunting-londons-driverless...
3•Bender•52m ago•0 comments

UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/12/uk-digital-id-gets-brain-trust-to-challenge-...
3•Bender•53m ago•0 comments

Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/12/google-fires-sueball-at-alleged-chinese-phishers-...
3•Bender•53m ago•0 comments

Tracking Wind Patterns Using 3D Mercator Map

https://github.com/jamalrfordii-arch/Vanguard-Map
2•Lawyer24•1h ago•0 comments

Image Compression

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/image-compression
3•vinhnx•1h ago•1 comments

AI agent on GitHub gives recipe for blueberry pie

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/173465
4•Tiberium•1h ago•2 comments

An octagon on the White House lawn for Trump's 80th birthday, the nation's 250th

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/trump-birthday-ufc-octagon-white-house-lawn-6e4b0ad3db6e8ccde792...
4•petethomas•1h 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.