Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust • Hacker News Board

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by saghm » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:06 AM UTC

jchw wrote: post #140

saghm wrote: post #125

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I don't feel like either one of you really has a strong claim. "Doesn't appear to" is subjective, and of course it's impossible to prove one way or another.

You're simplifying the exchange a little too much. I said: > Anthropic doesn't appear to use Claude for blog posts My claim is literally the lack of evidence, which, yes, can't prove anything. This claim can be contested easily by showing evidence that they in fact, do appear to be using Claude to write prose in blog posts. They said: > Anthropic _absolutely_ does Sounds pretty certain Anthropic is in fact, using Cla…

I don't really have any opinion on your tone; I just still don't agree with your framing. A lack of evidence would be neutral like "there's no evidence to indicate either possibility is more likely", but your phrasing conveyed that one possibility was more likely than the other. I pushed back against your follow-up because it seemed like you were arguing for a higher threshold of evidence than you provided.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by protocolture » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #88

arcanemachiner wrote: post #75

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HN definitely doesn't give a crap about that word.

I have written many words far worse than "crap" on this site. I haven't gotten in trouble over it yet. I do find it a little amusing, because commenters stopped criticizing my cursing the moment I started getting a good chunk of karma here. I remember in 2016 someone criticized me for using the term "shitposting"...I don't think I've gotten that kind of criticism since 2016 though.

They dont like "seppo" for some reason.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by aabhay » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:13 AM UTC

winwang wrote: post #111

Really exciting but it reads like Claude instead of what Nvidia posts have generally been like in the past. I don't need nor want my tech blogs to sound like a young adult novel.

I’ve had this happen to me several time over the past weeks and it’s gone from quaint to humorous to farcical to outright “is-the-world-gaslighting-me” insane.

Just today I was reading Stanley Druckenmiller’s op ed in WSJ. This dude is like 80 and has made billions of dollars, and he got Claude to write his op ed???

Unbelievable. And the tells are so obvious, yet people still love the Claude-like quips and odd grammatical choices that read like halfway asshole halfway mid-sentence confusion.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by suresk » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:15 AM UTC

LarsDu88 wrote: post #9

In this age of LLM written everything which has softly killed my motivation for learning Rust somewhat, this has revived my interest if not only for the fact the LLMs haven't yet been trained on this yet!

I've found sorta the opposite - in any area, it can just do everything for you, or it can be an incredible teacher. I've been re-learning a lot of higher-level math and it has been an knowledgeable, infinitely patient, always-available tutor. Of course, I could just have it do just about any math I want for me, but that's not the point.

Kinda the same with language/technology stuff - it can be a great tutor and it can scaffold other parts of a project for you. It can give you feedback and let you focus on the interesting parts.

I guess the motivation itself may be hard because of the fear of it taking over much of our jobs, but having this kind of help/feedback is pretty cool for the sake of learning things just because they are interesting!

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by anon291 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC

shmerl wrote: post #50

Nvidia only? Typical. This is more promising: https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu/

Once again... There's literally no point to a low level shader language for heterogenous back ends.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by karim79 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:21 AM UTC

karim79 wrote: post #64

claiir wrote: post #6

> The launch is checked rather than trusted. Damn even Nvidia is putting out fully Claude-written articles.

What are we for, I ask? What the hell are we now. Chatters to LLMs now? Is this our future? It really is starting to feel like it now.

I find it interesting that this was downvoted twice without explanation.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by QuaternionsBhop » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:23 AM UTC

brainless wrote: post #139

LarsDu88 wrote: post #9

In this age of LLM written everything which has softly killed my motivation for learning Rust somewhat, this has revived my interest if not only for the fact the LLMs haven't yet been trained on this yet!

I was learning Rust slowly when the LLM enabled coding became good enough. I switched from learning to full on building with Rust. I still learn high level concepts as needed but I will not be able to write Rust on my own at all. And that sounds scary but the way I got over the fear is by realizing there are many things that I do very well but I do not know their internals very well. Driving is an example. I barely u…

There are two types of programmers: the pragmatists who see programming as a chore and would gladly never write a line of code again given the right tools, and the gardeners who don't want their enjoyable and rewarding garden-tending work taken away from them.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by estebank » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:23 AM UTC

ux266478 wrote: post #142

josephg wrote: post #132

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If you're going to make apps in windows, you need to call their proprietary API somehow. Maybe you do it via a wrapper library, or via electron or something. But that's the same thing, just with more indirection.

Find a way to get ring 0 without touching any system APIs and you can just make your own APIs. My programs shall never say "please."

Your programs shall never grace my systems.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by lioeters » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:27 AM UTC

jubilanti wrote: post #76

bayindirh wrote: post #24

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That's actually a magnificent observation. This is not only an indication of a keen eye, but a trained brilliant mind as well.

One might even say it is load-bearing on the seam!

Why this is important: it's the honest take.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by lsofzz » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:36 AM UTC

xbmcuser wrote: post #70

tombert wrote: post #45

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> I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p Genuine question...why not just type "crap"? It's not even that much of a curse, but I've never really understood the point of self-censorship. If you don't want to curse then you could just use a non-curse word.

* is used to give emphasis and show that they are using the word as curse word rather just calling it bad

like for example, c*nt?