Hacker News: AliChraghihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AliChraghiHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:59:31 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by AliChraghi in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]>Iranians use VPNs simply because they want to access the internet. Mullvad services are too expensive for what average people make so i don't think it really matters.

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:52:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727671AliChraghihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727671<![CDATA[New comment by AliChraghi in "Zig and GPUs"]]>AMD ISAs are changing for almost every generation so LLVM[1] continues to keep the architecture name "amdgcn" and handle the variation based on the model flag (e.g., -mcpu=gfx1030 for RDNA2, -mcpu=gfx1100 for RDNA3).

> I though that these GPU ISAs were "proprietary"

PTX spec[2] is publicly available but the actual hardware assembly (SASS) is not. Although i believe Nsight allows you to view it.

1. https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#processors

2. https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution

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