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enonimal ◴[12 Feb 24 15:42 UTC] No.39346108[source]▶
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.

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leeoniya ◴[12 Feb 24 16:58 UTC] No.39347233[source]▶
fertile soil for Alyssa and Asahi Lina :)

https://rosenzweig.io/

https://vt.social/@lina

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smcl ◴[12 Feb 24 19:22 UTC] No.39349072[source]▶
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.
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1. throw10920 ◴[13 Feb 24 03:44 UTC] No.39354092[source]▶
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.

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2. squigz ◴[13 Feb 24 06:14 UTC] No.39355033[source]▶
Can you provide some context about this?
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3. squigz ◴[13 Feb 24 06:24 UTC] No.39355093[source]▶
Found some... Seems crazy to me; this community has never felt transphobic to me... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226845
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4. pests ◴[13 Feb 24 06:58 UTC] No.39355277{3}[source]▶
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.
5. throw10920 ◴[13 Feb 24 13:53 UTC] No.39357591{3}[source]▶
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.

6. squigz ◴[13 Feb 24 14:09 UTC] No.39357734{4}[source]▶
Do you have any recent examples? This has never been my experience, and in the post I linked, other users fail to find such examples too. It also seems strange to me to complain about comments/posts that are moderated?
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7. anaisbetts ◴[13 Feb 24 14:17 UTC] No.39357797{5}[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336904 is an example - an article about astronomy has a single mention of gendered language which kicks off an entire mess
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8. squigz ◴[13 Feb 24 19:30 UTC] No.39361720{6}[source]▶
That's a mess...? Seems like a relatively innocent discussion to me. Thanks for the example though.