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Sake-lang: Experimental language based on Ruby but with types for each operation

https://github.com/ko1/sake-lang
1•ksec•1m ago•0 comments

OpenCode possibly leaked byok provider credentials

https://www.reddit.com/r/opencode/s/cUYzx0o7Kv
1•minraws•3m ago•0 comments

YouGene: Genetics as Character Stats

https://yougene.ai/
1•vasilypiccone•3m ago•1 comments

Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob

https://benstoneonline.com/posts/microsoft-bob-easter-egg/
1•austinallegro•5m ago•0 comments

Agent skill for designing iOS apps for iPhone Duo

https://github.com/Belweave/iphone-duo-design
1•pkyanam•6m ago•0 comments

Vela – A Linux desktop environment with a custom Wayland compositor

https://velade.org/
1•BrandoDev_it•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/microsoft-cmu-praise
1•azhenley•12m ago•0 comments

MLB Plans to Play Stupid Games with Its Website Again in Upcoming Lockout

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/mlb-plans-to-play-stupid-games-with-its-website-again-in-upco...
1•hn_acker•12m ago•0 comments

The origins of Stand-up comedy

https://ksetiya.substack.com/p/on-the-origins-of-stand-up-comedy
1•andsoitis•15m ago•0 comments

University of Leicester to make redundant all pure math professors (2021)

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/l7yyir/not_joking_university_of_leicester_to_make/
3•E-Reverance•16m ago•0 comments

Automatic Speech Processing by Inference in Generative Models (2004) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFm9c-OJK0
1•jambalaya8•18m ago•0 comments

When No ID Means No Internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/when-no-id-means-no-internet-age-verification-and-right-acc...
3•DASD•21m ago•1 comments

Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR

https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/10/17/getting-my-totp-data-out-of-twilios-authy-app-thanks-to-the-g...
1•tomayac•21m ago•0 comments

Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA

https://www.westsiderag.com/2026/10/08/owner-of-former-uws-barbecue-restaurant-indicted-for-wage-...
1•healsdata•22m ago•0 comments

Pattern Matching Beats Narrative Reasoning

https://blog.scottstevenson.net/p/pattern-matching-beats-narrative
1•tosh•23m ago•0 comments

We shrank Whisper large-v3 by 68%, below the size of turbo – Tileward

https://tileward.com/research/a-smaller-speech-recogniser/
1•apsharma•25m ago•0 comments

AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?

https://mihaisplace.com/blog/ai-can-write-the-code-who-verifies-it
3•mmarvramm•25m ago•1 comments

TwMillion: 3 Years of DDNet's Tutorial – 3M runs at once

https://pati.ga/blog/twmillion.html
1•def-•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ThemesFor.app – a static website builder that doesn't hide the HTML

https://themesfor.app/
3•savydv•27m ago•0 comments

PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999)

https://pwn.ai/blog/pwnescape
1•Munksgaard•28m ago•0 comments

Rewrote my 2021 Browser Video editor with WebCodecs and got a 6x speedup

https://mastershot.app/video-editor/
1•jackbeck•29m ago•0 comments

Is 10²⁵ FLOPs Still the Frontier?

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2111490304092078474
3•tosh•32m ago•0 comments

Local-first AI proxy with keys in your OS vault

https://www.uptokey.com/
1•nailton•34m ago•0 comments

Query cycles: A compiler murder mystery

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/query-cycles-a-compiler-murder-mystery/
1•bucket2015•37m ago•0 comments

The Moral Case for Human Music

https://www.ft.com/content/2c21c250-d186-44e1-822c-f65436d213f4
1•aanet•38m ago•2 comments

OpenCode reports security breach affecting 1.4% of Console users

https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111519637049319818
1•iamsyr•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks

https://forgemesh.io/blog/pay-per-crawl-every-stack
3•agenticbotbot•41m ago•0 comments

Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules 'utterly stupid' as Linux drops its tag

https://thenextweb.com/news/torvalds-ai-assisted-by-tag-utterly-stupid-open-source-summit
3•jacquesm•41m ago•2 comments

Block Blast harvests its players for over $100M in ad money

https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast
1•ayomide321•43m ago•0 comments

OLTP is expensive, you can ClickHouse it

https://clickhouse.com/blog/oltp-is-expensive-you-can-clickhouse-it
1•saisrirampur•44m 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.