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Federated Package Management and the Zooko Triangle

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/21/federated-package-management.html
1•zdw•7s ago•0 comments

Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (2022)

https://longform.asmartbear.com/extreme-questions/
1•Brajeshwar•48s ago•0 comments

Don't Shave That Yak (2005)

https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)

https://dheera.net/posts/20140725-why-you-should-never-use-pixelation/
1•basilikum•1m ago•0 comments

Presenting the Case That the Future Will Be Unrecognizable

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/the-unrecognizable-age
1•cjbarber•1m ago•0 comments

Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively (2020)

https://liamrosen.com/arguments.html
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

China's Moore Threads unveils new chip in homegrown AI race

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/china-s-moore-threads-unveils-new-chip-in-ho...
1•teleforce•3m ago•0 comments

Green Production of Amino-Acid-Derived N-Doped Graphene for Vitrimer Composites

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c09378
1•westurner•4m ago•2 comments

Everyone knew about Walliams: another powerful man protected at women's expense

https://millihill.substack.com/p/everyone-knew-about-walliams
1•binning•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BetterQR – I got tired of $20/mo+ subscriptions for simple QR codes

https://www.betterqr.app
2•dzrmb•8m ago•0 comments

Performance trick: optimistic vs. pessimistic checks

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/20/performance-trick-optimistic-vs-pessimistic-checks/
1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you identify premium checks in Android app when learning modding?

1•DenisDolya•8m ago•0 comments

Reasons Not to Become Famous (2020)

https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
2•Tomte•10m ago•0 comments

Ancient Greek Terms That Should Make a Comeback

https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should
1•Tomte•10m ago•0 comments

Structured Outputs Create False Confidence

https://boundaryml.com/blog/structured-outputs-create-false-confidence
2•gmays•10m ago•1 comments

Simplistic Comptime Column Safety in SQLite Queries

https://kristoff.it/blog/simplistic-comptime-sqlite/
2•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HN Sentiment API – I ranked tech CEOs by how much you hate them

https://docs.hnpulse.com
2•kingofsunnyvale•11m ago•1 comments

Breaking barriers in attoscience with the shortest light pulse ever created

https://www.icfo.eu/news/2594/breaking-barriers-in-attoscience-with-the-shortest-light-pulse-ever...
2•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•11m ago•0 comments

Trying to Fit a Logistic Curve

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/20/fit-logistic-curve/
1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

All hail the Queens: How Queen Latifah introduced feminism into hip-hop

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/all-hail-the-queens-how-queen-latifah-introduced-feminism-into-hip-h...
1•binning•14m ago•0 comments

Vis – Combining Modal Editing with Structural Regular Expressions

https://github.com/martanne/vis
1•Lyngbakr•15m ago•0 comments

You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility

https://vale.rocks/posts/accessibility-importance
1•todsacerdoti•16m ago•0 comments

Scientists log rare case of female polar bear adopting cub

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/canada-polar-bear-adopts-new-cub
1•binning•18m ago•0 comments

Self-Monitoring Message Bus in Pure Python (No Dependencies)

https://github.com/misa76868-lang/ultra-meta-seed
1•ultra-meta•18m ago•0 comments

TailwindSQL – SQL Queries with Tailwind Syntax

https://tailwindsql.xyz/
1•FigurativeVoid•19m ago•0 comments

Prompt for Nassim Taleb's Black Swan Risk and Antifragility Framework

https://tools.eq4c.com/persona-prompts/chatgpt-prompt-for-nassim-talebs-black-swan-risk-antifragi...
1•alexgotoi•20m ago•0 comments

Stainless Transforms: The fast lane for fixing imperfect OpenAPI specs

https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-transforms-the-fast-lane-for-fixing-imperfect-openapi-specs
1•dgellow•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: MomentBridge – A 24KB site to share life moments (pure HTML/CSS/JS)

https://vnglstzrs.github.io/momentbridge/
1•vangelistziaros•23m ago•0 comments

Chrome AI Playback: Delightful, Wild and Disconcerting

https://blog.certisfy.com/2025/12/chrome-ai-playback-deligtful-wild-and.html
1•Edmond•24m ago•0 comments

Do you want to know the noise level of your environment

https://realtimesoundmeter.org
1•bitvvip•25m 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•7mo ago

Comments

solarmist•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Why? Will the new Nvidia Python stuff work on AMD GPU and other non-nvidia accelerators?
pjmlp•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
That is already taking place with work graphs, and making shader languages more C++ like.
ttoinou•7mo ago
Seems like with it you will be able to compile and execute one code on multiple GPU targets though
ashvardanian•7mo ago
There is a "hush-hush open secret" between minutes 31 and 33 of the video :)
refulgentis•7mo ago
TL;Dr same binary runs on Nvidia and ATI today, but not announced yet
throwaway314155•7mo ago
They desperately need to disable whatever noise cancellation they're using on the audio. Keeps cutting out, sounds terrible.
solarmist•7mo ago
Yeah, the mic quality was terrible.
hogepodge•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
This is covered by ARM which they consider CPU, and doesn’t fall into that clause. IOW no restrictions.