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OpenAI Executes Agreement with Dept of War for Classified Environment Deployment

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175
1•eoskx•28s ago•0 comments

I Trained My Own AI It Beat ChatGPT [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV4j5pXLP-I
1•yomismoaqui•1m ago•0 comments

"Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Dept. of War to deploy our models"

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578508042723599
1•davidbarker•1m ago•0 comments

Liberland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
1•pinkmuffinere•3m ago•0 comments

Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment

https://a-cup-of.coffee/blog/ostree-bootc/
1•mrtedbear•4m ago•0 comments

Kola Superdeep Borehole

https://www.davidsmythe.org/kola/kola.htm
1•DriftRegion•5m ago•0 comments

Rtk – reduce Claude Code token usage

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
1•RyanShook•6m ago•0 comments

A "Rose" Made of Galaxies Highlights Hubble's 21st Anniversary

https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/a-rose-made-of-galaxies-highlights-hubbles-21st-anniversary/
1•tzury•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Local memory for AI assistants – zero-cost Telegram history search

https://github.com/tituss-bit/openclaw-local-memory
1•tituss-bit•7m ago•0 comments

Deep Learning: Our Year 1990-1991

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/blog.html
1•vinhnx•8m ago•0 comments

Deep Learning: Our Year 1990-1991

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05744
1•vinhnx•8m ago•0 comments

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-no...
1•Betelbuddy•8m ago•0 comments

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533
2•toomuchtodo•11m ago•1 comments

I built the first multiplayer prompt-hacking game: Agent Has A Secret

https://agenthasasecret.com/
1•arm32•12m ago•1 comments

Coding Agents Wrote a Chess Engine in Pure TeX

https://blog.mathieuacher.com/TeXCCChessEngine/
1•azhenley•13m ago•0 comments

Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition

https://alexlitzenberger.com/blog/post.html?post=/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_add...
2•alexlitz•14m ago•0 comments

How Codex Is Built

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-codex-is-built
2•vinhnx•16m ago•0 comments

We don't have to have unsupervised killer robots

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/885963/anthropic-dod-pentagon-tech-workers-ai...
4•layer8•19m ago•0 comments

Nintendo adds spyware to re-release of Game Boy Advance ROM from 2004

https://xcancel.com/meatball_132/status/2027448890438439278
2•Lammy•21m ago•0 comments

Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/anthropic-says-it-will-challenge-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-des...
11•Jimmc414•22m ago•0 comments

The Mini PET 40/80 (2022)

http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2022/02/the-mini-pet-4080.html
2•erickhill•23m ago•0 comments

Sam Altman's 'Human Verification' Startup Leans on Consumer Brands

https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/sam-altmans-human-verification-startup-leans-on-consumer-brands-787...
1•petethomas•28m ago•0 comments

Approximation Game

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/approximation-game
1•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

Outbreak panic erupts as deadly eye-bleeding virus ground zero exposed on camera

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15596769/marburg-virus-bats-uganda-cave.html
2•Bender•30m ago•0 comments

Open Rails

https://www.openrails.org/
1•xattt•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Testing SQL logic without a real database

1•chrisulson•36m ago•1 comments

DIY Ion-Exchange Membranes from Hardware Store Items [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luulTI1RKHE
2•ycnews•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AxKeyStore – Zero-trust CLI secrets manager using your own GitHub repo

https://github.com/basilgregory/axkeystore
1•robin_a_p•52m ago•0 comments

Trapped in MS Office

https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-office
1•DASD•54m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Meet Alfonso: My OpenClaw Put on Public Discord

https://www.openclawdiscord.ai/
3•saroyas•55m ago•2 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•10mo ago

Comments

solarmist•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Why? Will the new Nvidia Python stuff work on AMD GPU and other non-nvidia accelerators?
pjmlp•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
That is already taking place with work graphs, and making shader languages more C++ like.
ttoinou•10mo ago
Seems like with it you will be able to compile and execute one code on multiple GPU targets though
ashvardanian•10mo ago
There is a "hush-hush open secret" between minutes 31 and 33 of the video :)
refulgentis•10mo ago
TL;Dr same binary runs on Nvidia and ATI today, but not announced yet
throwaway314155•10mo ago
They desperately need to disable whatever noise cancellation they're using on the audio. Keeps cutting out, sounds terrible.
solarmist•10mo ago
Yeah, the mic quality was terrible.
hogepodge•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
This is covered by ARM which they consider CPU, and doesn’t fall into that clause. IOW no restrictions.