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Neil Henning
Personal blog · duskborn.comprogrammingsystems
Neil Henning's personal blog at duskborn.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Vulkan Can Actually Do Compute Workloads”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN links Neil Henning's blog in a thread on the AMD Aldebaran GPU. The one comment argues that Vulkan supports compute, not only graphics, and cites VkFFT as an example.
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Most-linked posts?
- Vulkan Can Actually Do Compute Workloads2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-15
What Hacker News says?
> Vulkan is for graphics. Incorrect. Quoting the spec: > Vulkan is an API (Application Programming Interface) for graphics and compute hardware. Vulkan has compute shaders[1], which are generally usable. Libraries like VkFFT[2] demonstrate basic signal processing in Vulkan. There are plenty of other non-graphical Compute Shader examples, and this is part of the design of Vulkan (and also WebGPU). Further, there is a…
Comment linking /posts/a-simple-vulkan-compute-example/
on “The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU that won exascale”Submitted A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021) as a story · 341 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple Vulkan Compute example as a story · 85 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from WordPress to Hugo as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Baby’s First Crate: Cpp_new in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neil Henning's Blog: Farewell AMD / Hello Unity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Experimental Floating-Point Scalar Evolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hooking Up the Micro Parser Combinators Library and LLVM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Introduction to SPIR-V [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Floating Point Compression: How Small Can We Get? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Envcache as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vulkan Can Actually Do Compute Workloads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubench.h: single-header C/C++ benchmarking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Floating-Point Scalar Evolution to Simplify Instructions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bump_alloc – my new Rust crate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Process.h: cross-platform C/C++ single header library to interact with processes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing utest.h – single header C/C++ unit tester as a story · 1 points
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