[enonimal]

From the ARCHITECTURE.md:

> Those pointers point to undocumented functions forming CUDA Dark API. It's impossible to tell how many of them exist, but debugging experience suggests there are tens of function pointers across tens of tables. A typical application will use one or two most common. Due to they undocumented nature they are exclusively used by Runtime API and NVIDIA libraries (and in by CUDA applications in turn). We don't have names of those functions nor names or types of the arguments. This makes implementing them time-consuming. Dark API functions are are reverse-engineered and implemented by ZLUDA on case-by-case basis once we observe an application making use of it.

[gdiamos]

These were a huge pain in the ass when I tried this 20 years ago on Ocelot.

Eventually one of the NVIDIA engineers just asked me to join and I did. :-P

[jherico]

Do the job you want, not the job you have, eh?

[leeoniya]

fertile soil for Alyssa and Asahi Lina :)

https://rosenzweig.io/

https://vt.social/@lina

[smcl]

I know that Lina doesn't like a lot of the attention HN sends her way so it may be better if you don't link her socials here.

[leeoniya]

pretty sure she's a vt.social admin, so she can always do what jwz does with HN referer headers :D

given how omnipresent she is with her live streaming, it's a bit like South Park's Worldwide Privacy Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8_5LDkZwY

[bigdict]

Sounds ridiculous, why have a public presence on a social network then?

[dralley]

IIRC, it's not that she doesn't like the attention to her work, it's that she doesn't like how quickly conversations get derailed by things that have nothing to do with the work.

[smcl]

She's gotten a fair amount of unwanted attention from HN specifically, guys trying to dox her and stirring rumours about her. Like just mean-spirited stuff, and if you or I had experienced this then we'd likely feel the same animosity towards HN.

[cyanydeez]

oh. I think the emphasis is on hacker news.

you know certain social media sites contain certain toxic conversants.

[bigdict]

> you know certain social media sites contain certain toxic conversants.

That's just people…

[cyanydeez]

yes, but the difference between flys gathering at shit and bees to honey.

[throw10920]

HN isn't very toxic. You must be confusing it with another social media site.

If anything, the Asahi devs are the ones acting out.

[throw10920]

I think it would be better to avoid mention of them (or the Asahi project) on HN entirely, for that matter.

If they don't want HN to criticize them, then they should expect to not get the free publicity that HN offers. Seems fair enough.

Also, between accusing HN of "supporting trans genocide" (which is some mix between "impossible" and "false"), and poisoning links with HN referrer URLs, they don't seem like very good people themselves.

[squigz]

Can you provide some context about this?

[squigz]

Found some... Seems crazy to me; this community has never felt transphobic to me... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226845

[throw10920]

Thanks for finding that, I had a brief search but couldn't locate it.

Yeah, most communities have bad actors, but in HN's case, most of the bad comments are either user-flagged or killed directly by dang. The crazy part is that some of these people (e.g. sussmannbaka in the thread you linked) actually think that that means that those comments are somehow endorsed or something, which is completely insane - the comment literally says "dead" or "flagged", that means the community doesn't think it's acceptable.

The behavior in both the Mastodon post and that thread is why I don't want these people on HN - they're not interested in intellectual curiosity, they just want to have a flamewar over nothing.

[pests]

That is unhinged. I am at a loss after reading that thread. I always thought HN was a little over represented in the queer and furry communities.

[PoignardAzur]

Having an ARCHITECTURE.md file at all is extremely promising, but theirs seems pretty polished too!