GoKawiil - Tech News

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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-10 | by Grace Huckins | tags: ai2050, openai, anthropic

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Rust SIMD on the GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: rust, gpu, vectorware

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GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: nvidia, blackwell, rtx 50-series

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Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: stoa markets, gpu marketplace, ai servers

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AMD plummets 8% in premarket trading despite beating expectations (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: amd, nvidia, data center

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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro could get a hefty GPU upgrade to justify its high price (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 6, qualcomm, weibo

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More GPU price hikes loom for Asia as Japanese distributor warns of new increases — CFD Sales signals 20% to 40% higher prices on Gigabyte graphics card orders starting this month (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: gigabyte graphics cards, cfd sales inc., gpu price hikes

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: shieldstral, multimodal safety, nvidia gpu

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Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: runware, sonic inference pod, hyperscalers

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The team behind our favorite PS2 emulator for Android just released a PS1 emulator (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ps1 emulator, armsx2, retroachievements

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16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gpu vram, steam hardware, amd resurgence

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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: kimi, glm, cloudflare

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GPU prices for current-gen Nvidia and AMD: Price increases, why have the prices not dropped, and can you still buy a cheap GPU? (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: nvidia, amd, gpu prices

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World’s smallest GPU silicon passes real-world testing — 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at up to 15 FPS while v3.0 prepares for 2026 release (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Mark Tyson | tags: tinygpu, sky 25b, openhardware

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Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Pinterest Engineering | tags: kubernetes, pinterest, ray

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Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: morph, inference infrastructure, open models

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Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Stuff (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: morph, inference infrastructure, open models

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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Absurd GPU Pricing Update: Mid-2026 Edition (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5050, geforce rtx 5060

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Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: webgpu, poker, tensor library

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SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: sdl3, sokol_gp, sdl_gpu

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Best Buy is selling an RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP (theverge.com)

2026-07-30 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: rtx 5080, nvidia, asus

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LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year (wired.com)

2026-07-30 | by Paresh Dave | tags: linkedin, ai data centers, gpus

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Nvidia employee implicated in escalating AI GPU smuggling scandal, but demand only intensifies for Nvidia hardware (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jon Martindale | tags: nvidia, supermicro, ai gpu

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Nvidia employee implicated in escalating Supermicro smuggling scandal, but demand only intensifies for Nvidia hardware (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jon Martindale | tags: nvidia, supermicro, taiwan

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GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia, rtx 2080 ti, gpu repair

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A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: bezier curve, gpu, texture lookup

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How to buy second-hand PC hardware without getting scammed — essential rules of engagement for finding used parts and machines in an inflated market (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ben Stockton | tags: ebay, facebook marketplace, gpus

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4GB GPUs might return with AMD's Radeon RX 9050 (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Daniel Sims | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, asrock

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Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: manim, webgpu, 3blue1brown