Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source
December 15, 2025 · 12 min read Benjamin Satzger Principal Software Engineer We recently enabled GPU VMs on NVIDIA’s B200 HGX machines. These are impressive machines, but they are also surprisingly trickier to virtualize than the H100s. So we sifted through NVIDIA manual pages, Linux forums, hypervisor docs and we made virtualization work. It wasn’t […]
The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know
23 Aug 2022 3 min read Rina Diane Caballar is a contributing editor covering tech and its intersections with science, society, and the environment. SQL dominated the jobs ranking in IEEE Spectrum’s interactive rankings of the top programming languages this year. Normally, the top position is occupied by Python or other mainstays, such as C, […]
Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch
On-device AI inference powered by PyTorch ExecuTorch is PyTorch’s unified solution for deploying AI models on-device—from smartphones to microcontrollers—built for privacy, performance, and portability. It powers Meta’s on-device AI across Instagram, WhatsApp, Quest 3, Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and more. Deploy LLMs, vision, speech, and multimodal models with the same PyTorch APIs you already know—accelerating […]
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to […]
Classical statues were not painted horribly
Here is a Roman statue located in the British Museum: Townley Venus, British Museum. 2nd or 3rd century AD. Image Heritage Image Partnership Ltd via Alamy. It depicts the goddess Venus, perhaps originally holding a mirror. Something you will notice about it is that it looks great. Get the print magazine Subscribe for $100 to […]
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
Let’s grow together At Hightouch, we’re committed to helping our customers, business, and employees grow. As a series C startup backed by top investors, we are determined to continuously raise the bar and provide the best product in the market. Grow your career in a fast paced environment that values creative thinking and innovation.
Creating apps like Signal could be ‘hostile activity’ claims UK watchdog
Encrypted messaging developers may be considered hostile actors in the UK An independent review of national security law warns of overreach Encryption repeatedly targeted by UK lawmakers Developers of apps that use end-to-end encryption to protect private communications could be considered hostile actors in the UK. That is the stark warning from Jonathan Hall KC, […]
Slowness Is a Virtue
Modern culture is focused exclusively on questions that can be answered quickly. In academia, that’s what you can get funding for. Fast questions can be answered within a few weeks. You can then publish a paper. You can start collecting citations. You can present your answer at conferences. This is how you build a career. […]
After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
It’s all about momentum
In physics and in your life, the only metric you should care about is momentum. I enjoy rally games. What made them truly click for me is understanding that rally driving is all about weight transfer. A car is a spring, and any of your inputs, throttle, brake or steering, unsettles the 1000 kg of […]