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Nvidia discusses $2k-per-GPU annual fee for software

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-discusses-usd2-000-per-gpu-annual-software-fee-for-running-agents-on-ai-infrastructure-firm-already-charges-more-than-twice-that-amount-for-its-ai-enterprise-software-platform
9•gscott•58m ago

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verdverm•52m ago
buy the hardware and pay rent, even better /s
Kevin_Flynn•42m ago
At what point do market forces take over, and give Nvidia the collective middle finger ?

Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?

It's all in how your attorneys define "clean room" now isn't it ?

georgemcbay•14m ago
> Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?

Probably.

But... Nvidia is currently close enough to a monopoly in this space, and our antitrust enforcement is so weak/nearly-non-existent, that I suspect that anyone who either did this or used the software that resulted from it would be blacklisted by Nvidia and never get another Nvidia GPU.

So chances are very good anyone in a position to do this will just shut up and pay the rent.

j45•8m ago
Folks over time do build their own, or alternative tools.

In the model space the open source efforts have been not disappointing at all.

TazeTSchnitzel•23m ago
What software is this? A value-add nobody uses, or a core CUDA component everyone is stuck with?
mrlonglong•19m ago
Time for a Linus Torvalds middle finger.
j45•8m ago
First it was licensing per cpu, now gpu?

Dear Figma, I hope to come back

https://kaitlynhova.medium.com/dear-figma-i-hope-to-come-back-3cf88f0b20fc
1•matthova•22s ago•0 comments

Sea Ice and Territory in the Arctic

https://blog.willmeye.rs/sea-ice-and-territory-in-the-arctic/
1•willmeyers•30s ago•0 comments

US designates helium as a critical material – AP News

https://apnews.com/article/energy-critical-materials-minerals-helium-43da160adc1bad389fba0b9ffbd1...
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

Greece passes social media ban for kids under 15

https://www.dw.com/en/greece-joins-countries-putting-age-limits-on-social-media-banning-access-fo...
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/23/michigan-prof-creates-python-like-jac-language-for-...
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

Dispatch 006: Cheers at Angola

https://www.metanoia-research.com/dispatch-006-cheers-at-angola/
6•metanoia_•4m ago•0 comments

Four Direct, Reasonable, and Important AI Questions

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/four-direct-reasonable-and-important
3•paulpauper•6m ago•0 comments

Plan for AI-run companies challenged by US lawmakers

https://www.ft.com/content/d5021cdf-816e-4cb9-bbf9-e4ba816a004f
2•paulpauper•6m ago•0 comments

Regional Variations and Productivity Puzzles in Health Care

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35937
2•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

The GameMaker engine series is going free for commercial use on PC

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-gamemaker-engine-series-behind-undertale-hotline-miami-and-s...
1•Tomte•8m ago•0 comments

Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/26/billion-query-per-second-lookup-tables-in-c/
1•smilelamp•8m ago•0 comments

Cozy Work – Hand-verified laptop-friendly workspaces in Barcelona

https://www.cozy-work.es/
2•oriolgfarssac•10m ago•0 comments

Atchafalaya: The struggle to maintain the Mississippi River (1987)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
3•CGMthrowaway•11m ago•0 comments

'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy (2023)

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddh...
3•Tellusion•13m ago•0 comments

Retrieval's bottleneck is moving from finding to selecting

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/retrieval-bottleneck
24•emil_sorensen•14m ago•0 comments

Programming Is Not a Skill

https://ethang.dev/blog/programming-is-not-a-skill/
2•eglove•16m ago•0 comments

The Download: everyday AI harms and the race to nuclear spaceflight

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/26/1147650/the-download-everyday-ai-harms-nuclear-spacef...
2•joozio•16m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Announces Type Server Protocol, Extension of Language Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
4•adamnemecek•18m ago•0 comments

Battle Drones

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones/
1•colinprince•18m ago•1 comments

The Safe Internet Is Shrinking

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/the-safe-internet-is-shrinking/689130/
2•FinnLobsien•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ploom, find thread bugs in Python by trying every interleaving

https://github.com/AdilZouitine/ploom
1•AdilZtn•20m ago•0 comments

Pair – code walk-through like a human would

https://github.com/pirate-baby/pair
2•norton120•21m ago•1 comments

Expanding Claude for Nonprofits

https://claude.com/resources/articles/expanding-claude-for-nonprofits
2•pretext•23m ago•0 comments

Swedish government blocks ChatGPT and Claude. Here's why

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/26/swedish-government-blocks-chatgpt-and-claude-heres-why
4•devonnull•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: TripBalls Gigs – Your artists' tours on a map, priced as trips

https://gigs.tripballs.now/
2•sanjosanjo•25m ago•0 comments

After LiteLLM's backdoor, we open-sourced an OS-level package firewall

https://github.com/usestrix/firewall
23•iacgm•26m ago•1 comments

Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60k workers

https://twitter.com/kobeissiletter/status/2114745896315359305
3•taubek•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tabcove – automatic, local-only tab backups for Chrome and Edge

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabcove-save-restore-back/ccmjgbajjpimmhdnacanbbhmfjecjnlp
1•umairtahir•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?

2•pelcg•29m ago•0 comments

Halide for Duo: Electric Boogaluo

https://www.lux.camera/halide-for-duo/
1•johnbehnke•29m ago•0 comments