Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust • Hacker News Board

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by dannyw » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 12:52 AM UTC

DonsDiscountGas wrote: post #55

daemonologist wrote: post #53

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I get the impression that Nvidia employees don't care too much - I started seeing fully AI-written "documentation" on some of their smaller projects more than a year ago (i.e., before it was even slightly a good idea).

People never really read documentation before. Agents do read it now, and they seem to understand LLM-written text just fine.

What? People never read documentation?

I start with reading and exploring documentation first; with the codebase as a secondary tab.

When it’s not LLM generated, documentation is supposed to be easier to read and more insightful than code.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by Driftbench » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC

Been waiting for something like this. CUDA C++ is a pain; Rust's safety for kernel programming could be a game changer.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by stevemk14ebr » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC

californical wrote: post #65

WD-42 wrote: post #58

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> People never really read documentation before. The heck you talking about? How do you think we wrote software for the last 50 years?

Yeah lol it’s basically the only reliable way to know how things work. Pre-AI, I read documentation for libraries that I used almost every day. And now with AI I’m using it to fact check Claude. And still reading it for myself to understand why other peoples code is written a certain way. It’s basically the most important thing to reference when coding. Sure today Claude can just read the library code and tell you wh…

only reliable way to know how things work is to reverse engineer them

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by smnplk » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC

arcanemachiner wrote: post #75

lovelearning wrote: post #59

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It may be to bypass censorship, rather than self-censorship. Some platforms block or shadowban comments with curse words. Not sure about this platform.

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

can confirm, looks like crap is not on a list

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by dprkh » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

keybrd-intrrpt wrote: post #31

claiir wrote: post #6

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

> even Nvidia Why "even Nvidia"? They are fully behind using AI for basically everything. What's next? "Damn, even McDonald's is putting out unhealthy food"

McDonald's food is not even that unhealthy. I just tried a Burger King burger the other day and it's terrible. I think it's like 2000 calories in a single burger or something.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by groundzeros2015 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:05 AM UTC

WD-42 wrote: post #58

DonsDiscountGas wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People never really read documentation before. Agents do read it now, and they seem to understand LLM-written text just fine.

> People never really read documentation before. The heck you talking about? How do you think we wrote software for the last 50 years?

A small percentage of engineers

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by breezybottom » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:09 AM UTC

WD-42 wrote: post #54

jchw wrote: post #51

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Prove it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249269 I put the "humanized" output through Pangram and it still comes out as 100% AI generated.

That's about as useful as saying you asked the magical sky fairy.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by tombert » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:10 AM UTC

arcanemachiner wrote: post #75

lovelearning wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be to bypass censorship, rather than self-censorship. Some platforms block or shadowban comments with curse words. Not sure about this platform.

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.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by phatskat » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:11 AM UTC

californical wrote: post #65

WD-42 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People never really read documentation before. The heck you talking about? How do you think we wrote software for the last 50 years?

Yeah lol it’s basically the only reliable way to know how things work. Pre-AI, I read documentation for libraries that I used almost every day. And now with AI I’m using it to fact check Claude. And still reading it for myself to understand why other peoples code is written a certain way. It’s basically the most important thing to reference when coding. Sure today Claude can just read the library code and tell you wh…

I really appreciated a friend reaching out to me with some PHP questions today. It was, to me, fairly basic but he was having a hard time grokking the documentation vs reading what his coworker wrote (some code using output buffering).

I brushed up on the docs since I haven't touched it in a couple years, explained my understanding of the ob_* functions, and gave him a very brief demo on a PHP playground.

He could have asked any LLM to tell him what that chunk of code did, and to explain the three functions, and instead he reached out to me. That felt _good_. Talking shop has always been a good way for me to form connections, because the pressure to socialize becomes task-oriented and you start to learn about how people think and feel, and that opens up easier paths for actual connection. It was nice.

Just like the Old Internet still exists - niche websites, mailing lists, probably a BBS or two (likely more right?), the pre-LLM world will trudge on, for a time. I hope LLMs actually lead to good things for people in the long run, and for now I personally will remain sparse in my usage of them.

Re: Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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Post by calvinmorrison » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 1:12 AM UTC

dprkh wrote: post #85

keybrd-intrrpt wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> even Nvidia Why "even Nvidia"? They are fully behind using AI for basically everything. What's next? "Damn, even McDonald's is putting out unhealthy food"

McDonald's food is not even that unhealthy. I just tried a Burger King burger the other day and it's terrible. I think it's like 2000 calories in a single burger or something.

found the McShill. The King will hear of this!