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$100 pen, the uniball KURU TOGA DIVE

https://www.unibrands.co/products/kuru-toga-dive
1•Alifatisk•28s ago•0 comments

Police accused of misusing AI license-plate tracking systems

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/several-police-officers-arrested-for-usin...
1•Soumya_Max•1m ago•0 comments

Math Whizzes & Computing Pros

https://computerhistory.org/stories/math-whizzes-and-computing-pros/
1•jruohonen•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Blossom Word Game – a free daily Spelling Bee–style puzzle

https://blossomword.com/
1•ootdrate•2m ago•0 comments

A Solution to Rampant Token Theft: Proof of Possession

https://ben3d.ca/blog/proof-of-possession-api-tokens
1•bhouston•3m ago•0 comments

The Amphibious Villagers of Indonesia

https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/06/12/the-amphibious-villagers-of-indonesia
2•haritha-j•5m ago•0 comments

All about the IBM 1130 Computing System

http://ibm1130.org/
2•jruohonen•7m ago•0 comments

The evolution of agentic surfaces: building with Claude Managed Agents

https://claude.com/blog/building-with-claude-managed-agents
3•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

One Messaging API is not enough

https://blog.bridgexapi.io/why-one-messaging-api-is-not-enough
3•Bridgexapi•15m ago•0 comments

UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/white-house-ufc-fighters-crypto
2•tocs3•16m ago•1 comments

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

https://su3.io/posts/zeroserve-caddy-compat
2•losfair•16m ago•0 comments

Why Research also needs to research itself

https://medium.com/researchops-community/why-research-also-needs-to-research-itself-b70fe1ee7c8e
2•adrianhoward•18m ago•0 comments

What's Coming in Swift 6.4

https://wadetregaskis.com/whats-coming-in-swift-6-4/
3•hackernows_test•19m ago•0 comments

An Attempt at Explaining Why You Want to Use Forth

https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.html
3•fallat•20m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Passport rankings weighted by where people travel

https://aiandtractors.com/passport-ranking/
2•Icons8•20m ago•1 comments

As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/as-anthropic-suspends-access-to-new-models-india-debates-its-ai...
2•01-_-•21m ago•0 comments

Zuckerberg says Meta made 'mistakes' in AI workforce shift

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/zuckerberg-says-meta-made-mistakes-in-ai-wo...
3•01-_-•22m ago•0 comments

Numerical Hints for Dyon Condensation at θ=2π

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13428
2•leephillips•22m ago•0 comments

We should start measuring knowledge debt like the way we do for tech debt

2•ciwolex•23m ago•0 comments

The AI Delegation Lifecycle: Your Team Has AI Outputs. Where Are the Decisions?

https://age-of-product.com/delegation-lifecycle/
2•swolpers•23m ago•0 comments

Finding the Slow Query Killing Your Rails App

https://blog.appsignal.com/2026/06/11/finding-the-slow-query-killing-your-rails-app.html
2•andreigaspar•24m ago•0 comments

Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Malware
5•ImJamal•30m ago•0 comments

AI enables 1000 people to hold a thoughtful conversation

https://bigthink.com/science-tech/collective-superintelligence/
1•bonkerbits•33m ago•1 comments

How Utahns Took on Mr. Wonderful and a Data Center on the Great Salt Lake

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/elections/kevin-oleary-utah-data-center.html
2•ChrisArchitect•40m ago•1 comments

American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/10/american-capitalism-is-run-by-millionaires-not-bill...
2•Anon84•42m ago•0 comments

A live ledger of things people wish existed captured from the BlueSky firehose

https://www.unbuilt.so
3•plural•47m ago•0 comments

Why Software, Not Drones, Will Decide the Next War

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-06/260610_Bondar_Defining_Autonomy.pd...
4•tow21•48m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: If 160M Americans are employed, what's the unemployment rate?

1•paganartifact•52m ago•4 comments

Everyone Was Wrong About Maximum Siphon Height [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5glksNTKkZI
2•thunderbong•56m ago•0 comments

Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)

https://blog.plover.com/book/free-hop.html
1•downbad_•57m 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•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.