Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust • Hacker News Board

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by karim79 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

jorl17 wrote: post #99

claiir wrote: post #6

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

It is the number 1 thing I cannot stand with Claude slop. It's a sort of anthropomorphization of language. Every "thing" does, produces, feels, wants, asks, answers, etc.... - "Launch is checked" - "Question is asked" - "The implementation answers" - "The model wants" - "The results name" - "The connection surfaces" - "The prompt wires" - "The feature rides the mechanism" Every single fucking thing is alive, wants th…

Create any page with a file uploader. They all look the same now. It's like the Twitter Bootstrap days of responsive design. You'll get an icon which looks like ones on (on the drop space) those sites which are like "you must wait 60 seconds for this file to download".

It's so horrible. The human element has been completely removed and replaced by..... mediocre.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by ux266478 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:41 AM UTC

josephg wrote: post #132

worik wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are win32 APIs proprietary? Yes. And crap. Not in my code bases.

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."

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by iamarobot » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:42 AM UTC

freeopinion wrote: post #101

karim79 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you have the stomach to walk into a high school in the USA these days? Teachers use AI to generate assignments. Students feed the assignments to AI and submit the responses. Teachers feed the student submissions to an AI for grading.

As a high schooler going to a school with stricter rules on AI than most in my area, I can say that it's been going downhill ever since GPT 4. Teachers constantly use AI to create assignments(my French Teacher regularly handed us work with GPT 5.1 prose and emojis). Students are also rampantly using AI and bypassing school restrictions(We have a google account, making it easy to use Gemini if we just sign out), causing an inflation in GPAs and test scores. There's no easy solution to the problem, banning AI-tools only help somewhat as even typing into Google has AI web results, and students are quickly overcoming ways to restrict them. I have a friend that vibe coded an application that allowed his Mac Mini's desktop to be mirrored on his school chromebook, bypassing every restriction with sub 1-second latency. Of course, that opens the can of worms to whether schools should allow students to use AI...

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by throwaway334212 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

jacobgorm wrote: post #12

I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p into your C++ codebase, it is very hard to get rid, and you end up with code that is either tied to a single vendor or an #ifdef hell, probably both. The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same machine as the CPU, write your kernels in separate files, and launch them manually, like in Metal, OpenCL, and D3D12, e…

Anyone here looking at Modular's offerings?

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by salsa_catsup » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:46 AM UTC

Does this mean I can write shaders in Rust for use with WGPU or Vulkan?

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by jauntywundrkind » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

Worth mentioning that Nvidia open sourced CUDA Tile IR ~8 months ago. And yes the code is open source too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330732

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by Danox » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:55 AM UTC

The recent circular moves that Nvidia is making is designed to wrap things around them, anything to keep the AI model party going.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by dakolli » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:56 AM UTC

nullbio wrote: post #110

Makes me sad that Go doesn't get love. I feel like Go is perfect for LLMs.

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Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by dakolli » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:58 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!

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Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by IhateAI_6 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 3:04 AM UTC

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #105

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!

Sad to break it to you, but... I had LLMs write a pile of cuda-rust code and they were quite competent at it. Ported a bunch of (C++) CUDA kernels over, and ground away on them til they got equivalent performance https://github.com/rdaum/eider/tree/main/backends/cuda-oxide And mostly just DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, too. Not even a frontier model. Sorry.

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