hsfzxjy/npunlock

Write and run custom C kernels for Intel Core Ultra NPUs

Hardware, IoT & roboticsC#intel#npu#npu-acceleration#openvino

3.5 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 23, 2026, 10:35 UTC.

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About the project

A toolkit for writing and running custom C kernels on Intel Core Ultra NPUs, bypassing the public graph-level-only stack. It reconstructs the path from C code to a runnable NPU kernel, verified on Windows x64 with Meteor Lake / NPU3720.

Useful for

Run a custom FP32 GELU kernel on NPU3720 and verify against NumPy
Embed a C kernel into an NPU graph via npunlock Python bindings
Call libm functions such as tanhf inside a custom NPU kernel

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

16 stars so far today, about 31 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 36 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Hacker News: “Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs” — 24 points, 21 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 36
Today: 16 · ≈ 31 by evening
Forks: 0
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 1
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
Created: September 20, 2026
Last push: September 23, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs24 points, September 22, 2026

Spotted in

September 23, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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