consistently see +/-20% swings on AWS in our benchmarks

Same code using twice as much CPU. Took about a year to get an answer out of GCE support, which was basically “unlucky with NUMA positioning”. (Oh, and the hypervisor lies about NUMA)

I am observing up to 30% (!!!) wall-time fluctuations running the same code on the same data and the same VM type on GCE. That seems insane to me, in terms of noisy neighbor effects. What is the worst fluctuation you've seen on cloud machines?

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

It is the sovereign legal right of every country on the planet to repudiate their debt, and they can and do suffer essentially no consequences other than loss of access to credit markets for about 3-5 years. This is in fact so disastrous that countries prefer almost anything else to doing it!

Excellent - and so rare!! - overview of the role of Europe for US mil operations. “Europe remains the bedrock of U.S. force projection in the world and any action to cut those ties with Europe “would be a huge loss to the U.S.,” said Bence Nemeth. “It would cost time, money and resources.””

reading this im kinda happy with myself to have recommended pretty much that to my team

Fun fact: If Nvidia had a lower profit margin (more like a normal company and less like illegal drug dealers), and hence GPU prices lower, the idea would be significantly more viable.

I wrote a few lines about my development setup (which - by accident, not by design - mitigates a good number of risks associated with vibecoding. Not all of them, but many.) addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slig...

I've been working on AI agentic platforms. ClawdINT lets AI agents make intelligence-style analytical assessments on events - structured contributions toward a collaborative picture. Agreement and divergence are scored properly! Send your openclaw at clawdint.com

This really is the article to read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Due to current events:

Werden deutsche Kommunen in 2026 mehr Investitionen tätigen, Ekaterina Jürgens? Die Wirtschaftsprognosen unserer IMK Expert:innen für 2026: https://www.imk-boeckler.de/de/so-wird-2026-73211.htm #Sowird2026 #IMK

LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically. Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building. Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.

I find the US taking Maduro to be entirely in-character (remember Noreaga?). The weird part is having just pardoned Hernandez after he did the same thing.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

"did you hear what happened to the Cubans?" "no what did we do" "blew their corners smoov off, they're Sphereans now"

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.

Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.

Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/

I wonder why every LLM provider insists in having their own CLI agent. Can I have a merge between codex, Gemini-cli and Claude code with swappable models plz?

The French crown jewels stolen from the Louvre are steeped in history — and priceless. What happens when they make it to the black market?

Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone

3/ NSO also emerges from the WhatsApp v NSO case with just an absolute TON of their business splashed all over the court records.. Ouch E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025: www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...

2/ Altho massive punitive damages jury award against NSO Group ($167m) got reduced by the court, as is expected in cases where it is so large (to 9x compensatory damages)... This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.

#hexacon closing presentation from amnesty international about abuse of offensive tools in Serbia, Hungary, and the use of such tools by ICE. Strong choice, very good conference.

There's an argument to be made that this new security research from Anthropic also has copyright implications. www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

I did some science today, and it looks good, and I'll leave this computer to do some computing, but I am pretty happy about what I am seeing.

We talk about teaching coding in school but what about the fundamentals of CAD/CAM and at least one multi-part assembly?

Today's experiment: What shape will a deep neural network learn if trained on the sparse set of training points on the left? Will it learn a circle?

I'll be at Hexacon next week in Paris. If you want to meet to chat about security, AI, data compression, efficient computing, profiling, eBPF, or anything else that's interesting: Hit me up.

Kinda wild to think the Berkshire's 350bn cash pile is likely in T-Bills, and that 350bn is almost 1% of the 37Tn in total US debt. Berkshire alone holds 1% of US debt.

The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I remember just sending an invoice and getting paid in the 2000s. When did we lose that technology and why do I have to click through 20 screens and set up 2 accounts nowadays?

This is kinda wild, but kinda good?

Kinda wild that the insignias of the iron front are now deemed "far left". I mean c'mon, the SPD was always center-left, the iron front was "centrists to protect the democratic constitution of Weimar against fascist takeover". That's not far left, that's "I want democracy".

⚡️ Zelenskyy says the world is slowly starting to “forgive Putin for this war.” He told Sky News that Putin stalls talks to delay sanctions, ramp up arms production, and chip away at his isolation.

A new Sicherheitshalber episode is online! We do a deep dive into the German defence industry (things have been changing!) and talk about the need for more Bundeswehr personell.

Your dose of (not very pretty) truth for the day.

I was on EPSD's "Velocity's edge" podcast and had a great discussion with Nick Selby and Chris Swan about organisational scar tissue, decision records, writing things down, and "Murders & Acquisitions". open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...

I'm still tracking down broken things in various accounts from an international move over 2 years ago.

Google Family Calendars: Typical Google product design: can't have family members in more than one country. *Facepalm* Google is so great at infra and so utterly shit at product.

The political discourse in the US will argue that "Bella Ciao" is a radically left-wing song. It's not, it's the song of everybody that opposed the fascists. Opposing fascism is not radical left-wing. JFYI.

I have often stated that well-implemented memory tagging will be a game changer for memory corruptions. And it seems that with the next iPhone it's finally here: security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n... M'fckrs

Ich wollte algebraische Geometrie lernen, war aber zu unbegarbt.