Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderIf I were a hiring person at AMD or Intel, I'd shortlist this guy for a job, as they need help competing against the headstart CUDA has in the GPU-base compute space.
Hello, I am the author of VkFFT, Tolmachev Dmitrii. I remember VkFFT got a lot of initial traction thanks to Hacker News three years ago. Back then VkFFT was a simple collection of pre-made shaders for powers of two FFTs. Nowadays it is based on the runtime code generation and optimization platform that supports all the mentioned backends, has a wide range of implemented algorithms (some of which are not even present in other codes) to cover all system sizes…
Hello! Since the last post VkFFT has experienced a number of huge improvements and optimizations. Namely: -It now supports sequences up to 2^32 in all dimensions (algorithmically, in reality limited to allocatable memory size, switch to 64-bit addressing scheme is planned for future release) -configurations optimized for bigger range of systems and vendors -benchmarked Radeon VII and RTX 3080, shows that FFT is extremely bandwidth limited on modern GPUs -VkFFT is able to match and outperform cuFFT on the whole…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 520
- Total comments
- 216
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-27 | VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform LibraryFirst breakout · Best thread | ah- | 220 | 127 |
| 2020-11-17 | VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library Now MPL 2.0 | DTolm | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-18 | RTX 3080 and Radeon VII benchmark results in VkFFT against cuFFT | DTolm | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-20 | VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform library | DTolm | 123 | 50 |
| 2023-08-02 | VkFFT: Vulkan/CUDA/Hip/OpenCL/Level Zero/Metal Fast Fourier Transform LibraryLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 173 | 39 |
