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Alex Armbruster

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Alex Armbruster's personal blog at alexarmbr.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Alex Armbruster's blog for GPU programming posts, such as one on writing a fast matrix multiply. This comment thread discusses SIMD versus tensor cores in GPU code.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. lostmsu · 2025-12-14Recommends
    I believe these are SIMD. Tensor cores require MMA family of instructions. Ask me how I know. :) https://github.com/m4rs-mt/ILGPU/compare/master...lostmsu:IL... Good article: https://alexarmbr.github.io/2024/08/10/How-To-Write-A-Fast-M...

    Comment linking /2024/08/10/How-To-Write-A-Fast-Matrix-Multiplication-From-Scratch-With-Tensor-Cores.html

    on “Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus”
  2. Submitted How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024) as a story · 147 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How to Write a Fast CUDA Matrix Multiplication with Nvidia Tensor Cores as a story · 2 points

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