I've recently tasted AMD Zen 5 CPUs (AWS' m8a instances) and... Whooaaa. Even before talking about GPUs and NPUs, the next 5 years of CPUs will be very exciting! For

All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.

While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully close the gap between costs and returns.

Lisp + APL = K

Bloom and cuckoo filters provide fast approximate set membership while using little memory. Engineers use them to avoid expensive disk and network accesses. The recently introduced xor filters can...

The three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets or merge their own PRs. - borenstein/yolo-cage

Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be…

The open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG - clockworklabs/BitCraftPublic

In a historic Brazilian city, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia -- but why?

Lix is a universal version control system for any file format. Unlike Git's line-based diffs, Lix understands file structure, showing 'price: 10 → 12' instead of 'line 4 changed'.

Learn what a unikernel is and how it compares to a Linux container. Build and run your first unikernel inside a playground box.

Random thoughts

Enjoyed learning the process of setting up a cluster of tiny PCs for parallel computing. A note to myself on installing Ubuntu, passwordless SSH, automating package installation across nodes, distributing R simulations, and comparing CV5 vs CV10 performance.…