--- title: GPUs Go Brrr | daily.dev description: The post discusses the hardware requirements of GPUs for AI computation and introduces ThunderKittens, an embedded DSL that simplifies writing high-performance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gpus-go-brrr-ov4iohvt3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GPUs Go Brrr | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the hardware requirements of GPUs for AI computation and introduces ThunderKittens, an embedded DSL that simplifies writing high-performance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gpus-go-brrr-ov4iohvt3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ov4iOHVt3.png og:image:alt: GPUs Go Brrr og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GPUs Go Brrr **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 15 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post discusses the hardware requirements of GPUs for AI computation and introduces ThunderKittens, an embedded DSL that simplifies writing high-performance AI kernels. It explores the quirks of the NVIDIA H100 GPU and provides sample code for implementing flash attention and linear attention kernels using ThunderKittens. The post concludes with the idea of reorienting AI designs to match hardware capabilities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/gpus-go-brrr-ov4iohvt3) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GPUs Go Brrr","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/gpus-go-brrr-ov4iohvt3","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/gpus-go-brrr-ov4iohvt3"},"datePublished":"2024-05-12T23:13:26.414Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T06:50:07.264Z","description":"The post discusses the hardware requirements of GPUs for AI computation and introduces ThunderKittens, an embedded DSL that simplifies writing high-performance...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3304324aea01d8b308d25ea54cd2f2d4?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3304324aea01d8b308d25ea54cd2f2d4?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/gpus-go-brrr-ov4iohvt3","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,gpu,hardware","timeRequired":"PT15M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"GPUs Go Brrr"}]} ```