Hacker News: a5ehrenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=a5ehrenHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:23:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by a5ehren in "Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?"]]>Google and Amazon still have to buy tons of Nvidia HW to provide in their clouds. No one writes to their custom chips besides internal teams because the software stack doesn't exist.

]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:41:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549546a5ehrenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549546https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549546<![CDATA[New comment by a5ehren in "Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?"]]>PTX assembly. Deepseek used some of it to do a little bit of work that CUDA didn't have APIs for.

]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:39:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549537a5ehrenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549537https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549537<![CDATA[New comment by a5ehren in "Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?"]]>Distant cousins, and they had never met until they were both CEOs. This is a stupid trope and people need to stop using it.

]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:38:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549527a5ehrenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549527https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549527