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Ask HN: Claude Code users, are you experiencing reduced usage limits today?

1•nnnck•5m ago•0 comments

I Like My F# Code Type Annotation-Free

https://www.planetgeek.ch/2025/12/10/i-like-my-f-code-type-annotation-free/
1•Kerrick•6m ago•0 comments

Anytime Algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime_algorithm
1•raw_anon_1111•9m ago•0 comments

TypeSlayer – a TypeScript types performance tool [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP6EZXzXBzY
2•wildpeaks•14m ago•0 comments

I build a live crypto-sentiment analyzer

https://risingwave.com/blog/risingwave-python-udf-tutorial/
1•WavyPeng•14m ago•0 comments

Pebble Index

https://repebble.com/index
1•mcyc•18m ago•0 comments

Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program

https://astera.org/neuroscientist-doris-tsao-joins-astera-to-lead-its-new-neuroscience-program/
1•memming•29m ago•0 comments

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/atsb_parachute_snagged_software/
2•defrost•32m ago•0 comments

Tool for analyzing GitLab SOS bundles without Elasticsearch

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support/toolbox/soslab
1•s_shaik•32m ago•1 comments

A Letter from My Grandfather

https://lorn.us/posts/a-letter-from-my-grandfather/
2•atropoles•37m ago•0 comments

A Friendly Guide to Exorcising Maxwell's Demon (Paper)

https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/phkv-wrsd
1•mrcgnc•42m ago•0 comments

The Component Gallery

https://component.gallery/
1•handfuloflight•46m ago•0 comments

Fish Alpinism

https://triapul.cz/_/1765291397
1•todsacerdoti•49m ago•0 comments

Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742
1•bearseascape•55m ago•0 comments

Slovenia gives cash constitutional protection

https://sloveniatimes.com/45857/slovenia-gives-cash-constitutional-protection
2•walterbell•55m ago•0 comments

China's AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity from Biggest Grid

https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-electricity-data-centers-d2a86935
2•perihelions•56m ago•0 comments

Portals must bend gravity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIhwLrbMk
1•chii•57m ago•0 comments

GLM-4.6V: Open-Source Multimodal Models with Native Tool Use

https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.6v
2•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why are people using Claude or ChatGPT when Gemini is free?

3•muunbo•1h ago•1 comments

Trump launches $1M 'gold card' immigration visas

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4q1lddj8go
5•e2e4•1h ago•0 comments

Is it possible to fix the "Power Law" problem in user-generated content?

https://ideavo.tripivo.co.in
2•ideavo•1h ago•1 comments

Are there Proton Drive alternatives with true client-only key handling?

2•hasanur_m•1h ago•1 comments

OpenAI (2015)

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
2•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Shapes Inc founders committed the cardinal sin of mass emailing by CCing

https://twitter.com/Zencep_NA/status/1998965773126218184
1•matthewsh•1h ago•1 comments

The Wild West tale of the first cow-buffalo hybrid

https://www.popsci.com/science/cow-buffalo-hybrid-history/
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

A list of parks around the world that are perfect to sit down and enjoy a book

https://www.placestoread.xyz/
2•animal_spirits•1h ago•0 comments

Instagram gives users control of their algorithms in new feature

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/instagram-users-control-algorithms-new-feature/story?id=128252102
3•SilverElfin•1h ago•0 comments

Oil Tanker U.S. Seized Has Faked Its Location Before, Data Shows

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/politics/oil-tanker-venezuela-tracking-data.html
8•jbegley•1h ago•2 comments

High Performance SSH/SCP

https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/
2•gslin•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: DocLet – End-to-end encrypted storage with user-owned key branches

https://doclet.app/
1•hasanur_m•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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.