Hacker News with Generative AI: Nvidia

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks (phoronix.com)
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you.

Nvidia, Linux, Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, GPU Compute

19 points by shikharbhardwaj 2 days ago | 8 comments

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting (theverge.com)
Ah shit, here we go again. Two owners of Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs.

Hardware, Graphics Cards, Nvidia, Technology, Consumer Electronics

416 points by ambigious7777 10 days ago | 509 comments

The Longest Nvidia PTX Instruction (ashvardanian.com)
The race for AI dominance isn’t just about who has the most computing - it’s increasingly about who can use it most efficiently.

AI, Optimization, Nvidia, Hardware

8 points by ashvardanian 15 days ago | 0 comments

Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance (tomshardware.com)
Aging chip could succeed in reducing China's reliance on Nvidia GPUs.

Hardware, China, Nvidia, AI, Performance

118 points by sien 16 days ago | 61 comments

China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia (arstechnica.com)
China has revived antitrust investigations into Google and Nvidia, while considering a new probe against Intel, as Beijing looks for leverage in talks with US President Donald Trump.

China, Antitrust, Google, Nvidia, Trade

21 points by thunderbong 16 days ago | 5 comments

Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library (github.com/nvpro-samples)
nv_cluster_lod_builder is a continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library.

Nvidia, Open Source, 3D Graphics, Game Development, Libraries

137 points by klaussilveira 16 days ago | 29 comments

Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPU Architecture [pdf] (nvidia.com)

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Hardware, Computer Architecture

10 points by ydnyshhh 18 days ago | 0 comments

Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as 'a monopolistic crime against the consumer' (pcgamer.com)

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Consumer Technology

6 points by solardev 18 days ago | 3 comments

Exacluster with 144 Nvidia H200 AI GPUs detailed by its designer (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Nvidia, GPUs

11 points by doener 20 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia Shares Resume Fall (ft.com)

Nvidia, Stock Market, Finance

66 points by belter 22 days ago | 66 comments

Black Swan's Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What's Coming (bloomberg.com)
The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb is warning that Monday’s brutal selloff in Nvidia Corp. is just a taste of what’s in store for investors who blindly piled into Wall Street’s AI-driven stock rally.

Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Investing, Nassim Taleb, Nvidia

37 points by pera 23 days ago | 63 comments

Nvidia calls China's DeepSeek R1 model 'an excellent AI advancement' (cnbc.com)

Nvidia, China, Artificial Intelligence

9 points by breadwinner 24 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia sheds almost $600B in market cap (cnbc.com)

Nvidia, Stock Market, Finance, Technology

247 points by mfiguiere 24 days ago | 25 comments

Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout (yahoo.com)
Nvidia Corp.’s plunge, fueled by investor concern about Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek, erased a record amount of stock-market value from the world’s largest company.

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Stock Market, Finance, China

501 points by rcarmo 24 days ago | 1073 comments

Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China’s DeepSeek triggers tech sell-off (cnbc.com)

Nvidia, Stock Market, China, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

5 points by ulfw 24 days ago | 3 comments

Huawei has a new chip to rival Nvidia's AI GPUs – Ascend 910C (tomshardware.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Nvidia, Huawei, Chips

11 points by dataminer 25 days ago | 0 comments

Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger" (hntrbrk.com)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a message to deliver.

Nvidia, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology

59 points by impish9208 26 days ago | 38 comments

The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia (youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)

Nvidia, Competition, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

655 points by eigenvalue 26 days ago | 479 comments

Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming (theangle.com)

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Technology, Hardware

60 points by walterbell 38 days ago | 56 comments

Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming and they'll run Linux (zdnet.com)
I know, I know: "Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda." You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want: Nvidia's Project Digits, a desktop with AI supercomputer power that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro.

Nvidia, Linux, Personal Computing, AI

69 points by CrankyBear 39 days ago | 40 comments

Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please (ycombinator.com)
I've spent 15 years building a career in robotics/software engineering along the "traditional path": writing software to solve problems, mastering fundamentals, and architecting complex systems. I stay on top of cutting-edge technologies to stay relevant, but I’ve mostly seen AI/LLMs as powerful tools for augmenting specific tasks rather than fundamentally reshaping engineering as a discipline.

Nvidia, CES, Robotics, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

54 points by btbt 40 days ago | 15 comments

Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rubric that drove computing progress for decades.

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Moore's Law, Computing, Technology

24 points by belter 43 days ago | 7 comments

Nvidia Project Digits (nvidia.com)
Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, Project DIGITS delivers a petaflop of AI performance in a power-efficient, compact form factor.

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Supercomputers, Hardware

6 points by tmanta7 44 days ago | 2 comments

Nvidia announces $3k personal AI supercomputer called Digits (theverge.com)
If you were looking for your own personal AI supercomputer, Nvidia has you covered.

Nvidia, Personal AI, Supercomputers, Hardware

126 points by taubek 44 days ago | 29 comments

Nvidia releases its own brand of world models (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.

Artificial Intelligence, Nvidia, Generative AI, Machine Learning

70 points by bariscan 45 days ago | 70 comments

Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' (techcrunch.com)
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor.

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, CES, Supercomputers

623 points by magicalhippo 45 days ago | 495 comments

Nvidia Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series Opens New World of AI Computer Graphics (nvidia.com)
CES—NVIDIA today unveiled the most advanced consumer GPUs for gamers, creators and developers — the GeForce RTX™ 50 Series Desktop and Laptop GPUs.

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Computer Graphics

76 points by OnlineInference 45 days ago | 23 comments

Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs (theverge.com)
Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today.

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Gaming, Hardware, Technology

503 points by somebee 45 days ago | 758 comments

Nvidia's new year's surprise: a $700M software acquisition will be open source (fortune.com)
Nvidia’s new year’s surprise: a $700 million software acquisition will be open source