Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (February 10, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for February 10, 2024 :</p>
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Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
Summary: Bloomberg's Memray is a memory profiler for Python, designed to help developers identify and fix memory leaks in their code. The open-source project has gained popularity, with 11.9k stars and 387 forks on GitHub. Memray is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license and supports Python 3.
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
Summary: Hexops has developed a DirectX shader compiler that reportedly outperforms Microsoft's DXC compiler. The Mach engine uses an experimental graphics API called sysgpu, built with Zig, to support Metal, Vulkan, Direct3D, and OpenGL backends. The compiler eliminates the need for the proprietary dxil.dll, allowing HLSL shader compilation on macOS and ARM Linux machines. Prebuilt, static binaries of the dxcompiler library and dxc CLI are available for macOS, Linux, and Windows. However, there are some limitations, such as no support for SM6.7 and SPIRV-output.