Once you have finished building the GPU C library it can be used to run libc or libm functions directly on the GPU. Currently, not all C standard functions are supported on the GPU. Consult the list of supported functions … Read more
I recently responded to someone on Mastodon who asked about producing decent-looking PDFs from markdown. I replied eagerly with “OMG Typst!” and linked to my earlier blogpost about developing an entire book layout template for Pandoc and Typst. The response … Read more
Thorsten Ball wrote a really thoughtful piece about LLM-based coding assistants. A lot of accomplished, productive engineers use them. Adaptability is important for software engineers. Why not dive in? I’m not passionately against coding assistants, but neither do I use … Read more
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to … Read more
The PyTorch ecosystem is a popular choice for deep learning research and development. You can use uv to manage PyTorch projects and PyTorch dependencies across different Python versions and environments, even controlling for the choice of accelerator (e.g., CPU-only vs. … Read more
There’s a wonderful web app (“Allmaps Here”) that shows your GPS location on old maps. I love it. We didn’t have GPS until a few decades ago (it took some relativity theory, satellites and microelectronics). But we have had fantastic … Read more
Re-routing the encryption In this edition: Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future has some previously unrecognized cheat features that activate based on what you name your save file. Using Ghidra and Python, I reverse-engineered the encoding scheme to reveal … Read more
Strangler Fig During a vacation in the rain forests of Queensland in 2001, we saw some strangler figs. These are vines that germinate in a nook of a tree. As it grows, it draws nutrients from the host tree until … Read more
FIGURE 1 A 65” Samsung QN800A on my desk. TLDR: If your job is to write code all day or stare at Excel spreadsheets, buy an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor setup. You can even use the same TV … Read more
Using Reinforcement Learning and $4.80 of GPU Time to Find the Best HN Post Ever (RLHF Part 1) Background: I’m Kyle, the founder of OpenPipe. OpenPipe is a managed fine-tuning service that makes it easy to build your own LLMs … Read more