news.ycombinator.com• Apr 2, 2026• 1 min read
Tinygrad Nvidia P2P hack on Talos OS: 3 days with AI, would been 2 weeks withoutI just open-sourced a fully working build of the tinygrad NVIDIA P2P hacked kernel modules packaged as a Talos Linux system extension — patched open driver, signing key lineage, overlay ordering, the whole nightmare. Verified on 4x 5090.Github: https://github.com/himekifee/talos-tinygrad-nvidia-p2p-driverWhy this exists: The tinygrad community's P2P kernel patch (aikitoria's donor patch) enables PCIe peer-to-peer / GPUDirect on NVIDIA's open kernel modules — direct GPU-to-GPU memory access without bouncing through host RAM. But getting patched kernel modules to actually load on Talos Linux is an entirely separate war. Talos's immutable, signature-enforced architecture fights you at every turn.What it took: Almost 3 full days with OpenCode + Claude Opus 4.6 + GPT-5.4 xHigh doing the heavy thinking, iterating, and debugging alongside me. Done by hand, this would have been 2 weeks minimum — and even with LLMs, they kept getting trapped in the same pitfalls because there is essentially zer