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Nvidia crushed its quarter–and CEO Jensen Huang said in a leaked all-hands

https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-market-nvidia-quarter-meeting-2025-11
1•nis0s•11m ago•1 comments

An overview of memory management in Go (2021)

https://medium.com/safetycultureengineering/an-overview-of-memory-management-in-go-9a72ec7c76a8
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Bob the Fixer – open-source AI code-fixing tool that runs locally (0.1.0-beta)

https://bobthefixer.dev/
1•andrearaponi12•14m ago•1 comments

Chat Starla-Pelita Air

1•HBICKIKI•14m ago•0 comments

Orion: A Unified Visual Agent

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14210
1•visioninmyblood•15m ago•0 comments

eBPF Rootkit

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/linkpro-ebpf-rootkit-analysis
1•udev4096•17m ago•0 comments

Losing Money Every Month: Growing Finance Crisis Threatens Affordable Housing

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/affordable-housing-landlords-buildings-financial-crisis-bronx/
1•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

You Don't Realize What You've Lost

https://himanshusinghbisht.substack.com/p/why-you-dont-realize-what-youve-lost
1•gilfoyle_7•17m ago•0 comments

Two Types of Scientific Fraud: For a Fee and for Power

https://4gravitons.com/2025/08/29/two-types-of-scientific-fraud-for-a-fee-and-for-power/
1•navigate8310•18m ago•0 comments

The Banana That Means Business

https://saanyaojha.substack.com/p/the-banana-that-means-business
1•feyman_r•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I turned algae into a bio-altimeter and put it on a weather balloon

https://radi8.dev/blog/stratospore/
1•radeeyate•26m ago•0 comments

Overview of the Nvidia RTX Branch of Unreal Engine 5.6 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCpsMmt4StQ
1•mariuz•27m ago•0 comments

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html
30•ingve•29m ago•12 comments

Tetris Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
3•varjag•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Snipets – A browser extension to remember what I read online

https://github.com/The-Law-1/Snipets
1•the_law•31m ago•0 comments

Rust's Strategic Advantage

https://sysid.github.io/rusts-strategic-advantage/
1•sysid•34m ago•0 comments

The Fate of Data Model Dependency

https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/the-fate-of-shared-data-model-cf8a3dc88ac9
1•HideInNews•34m ago•0 comments

'The public has been lied to': made documentary insists aliens exist

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/22/age-of-disclosure-documentary-aliens
3•nis0s•37m ago•2 comments

Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

https://www.righto.com/2025/11/unusual-386-standard-cell-circuits.html
1•pwg•39m ago•1 comments

Mamma Mia. Greece, How Could Anyone Resist You?

https://maneydigital.com/2025/11/21/mamma-mia-greece-how-could-anyone-resist-you/
3•mooreds•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I ended up vibecoding a full fledged interpreter when ads annoyed me

https://pseudorun.tech/
1•crypt0phage•40m ago•0 comments

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists with His AI Study–Then It All Fell Apart

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/an-mit-student-awed-top-economists-with-his-a...
3•nis0s•41m ago•0 comments

The worst programming language of all time [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc
1•todsacerdoti•43m ago•0 comments

Artificial wombs, fake babies: The climatic vision of the transhumanist movement

https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/artificial-wombs-and-fake-babies
1•binning•43m ago•0 comments

Advice for crime analyst to break into data science

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2025/11/21/advice-for-crime-analyst-to-break-into-data-science/
1•speckx•45m ago•0 comments

Influencers profited pushing 'wild' births – now linked to baby deaths globally

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-...
2•binning•46m ago•0 comments

Kalshi's valuation jumps to $11B after raising $1B round

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/source-kalshis-valuation-jumps-to-11b-after-raising-massive-1b-...
2•iamtech•48m ago•0 comments

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
15•binning•48m ago•6 comments

Ask HN: How to start doing LinkedIn outreach to validate SaaS ideas?

2•yoouareperfect•51m ago•1 comments

The $AVC Writer Coin

https://avc.xyz/the-dollaravc-writer-coin
1•wslh•52m 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Why? Will the new Nvidia Python stuff work on AMD GPU and other non-nvidia accelerators?
pjmlp•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
This is covered by ARM which they consider CPU, and doesn’t fall into that clause. IOW no restrictions.