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New comment by mmaunder in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

mmaunder — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:54:43 +0000

lol. Apache mpm event was released a year after Nginx and was horrible and only became stable in 2012, about 8 years after Nginx was released.

New comment by mmaunder in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

mmaunder — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:49:36 +0000

Oh my. Funny story. Kerry and I (the Wordfence founders) met at eToys dot com back in the day and she’s now my wife of 20 years. Anyway at eToys she ran the web QA team and I ran the warehouse management system in Europe. At eToys we had over 200 front end servers (for the memory needed for the number of concurrent processes needed to support the number of connections) and later that increased IIRC. We got together and started a string of startups. Feedjit was one of them and it would get over 1 billion modperl hits in a month on over 1M websites. We scaled it up with just rhe two of us with 6 servers using modperl with Apache on the back end and Igor released nginx just as we hit exponential growth removing our need to scale horizontally. Suddenly we could have a single front end box with nginx, reenable keepalive, and I had 150,000 concurrent tcp connections hanging off a single Linux box thanks to nginx and epoll in the Linux kernel. Massive game changer. The power of event based design vs threaded or multi process design.

Not absurd. Sometimes stair steps in tech do happen. And they will in AI.

New comment by mmaunder in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

mmaunder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:29:39 +0000

The researchers who published Attention Is All You Need didn’t have the benefit of the LLMs they birthed. Take a look at the prompt that solved the Cycle Double Cover conjecture, and which has been adapted to achieve breakthroughs in cybersecurity. The field is entering a feedback loop that is leading to exponential innovation. We’re at the beginning of the curve. And right now the big iron data center approach is brute forcing the problem.

New comment by mmaunder in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

mmaunder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:42:06 +0000

Remember when we needed 200 servers for an enterprise website because Apache used one process or thread per connection - and Nginx collapsed that into a single box overnight? That moment for LLMs is near. It’s going to move us from the big iron era of AI to small portable brains. Nature has already proved it’s possible with 20 watts and very little heat generation. And I think the data center buildout will end in carnage.

New comment by mmaunder in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

mmaunder — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:40:17 +0000

And I was comparing salmon farms to cattle feed lots in the USA, not saying “salmon feed many”. Wow that got hilariously off track.

New comment by mmaunder in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

mmaunder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:07:03 +0000

Because of financial incentives. And it makes critics sad when films aren’t shot where their story is based. Saved you reading it.

New comment by mmaunder in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

mmaunder — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:56:53 +0000

Salmon feed lots, with a similar problem of concentrated waste, cruelty and unhealthy animals. Sounds like the underwater egg solution they discuss in the article might also be solving an optics issue they have. Out of sight, out of mind.

New comment by mmaunder in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

mmaunder — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:53:37 +0000

They’ve bred more docile salmon, according to the article. Getting that DNA into wild populations would be problematic I’d imagine.

New comment by mmaunder in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

mmaunder — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:21:20 +0000

“Each of the results cost roughly $100,000 in API cost to develop.”

And

“Over the course of a week, one Anthropic researcher worked together with Claude to develop the HAWK attack, and another researcher built a scaffold4 that allowed Claude to fully autonomously discover the AES attack.”

Spending $100k in tokens in a week is an impressive feat even with massive parallelization. I suspect the TPS their internal folks have access to is far higher than their bulk public endpoints.

There’s a tech aristocracy rapidly emerging in our society and it’s going to tear us apart.

New comment by mmaunder in "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27"

mmaunder — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:26:19 +0000

Turns out sitting quietly in a room and doing math is worth more than all the money and network in the world.

New comment by mmaunder in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

mmaunder — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:12:03 +0000

Wonder how long until a leaker emerges. Incentives are strong for someone to do the right thing and get credit for doing it.

New comment by mmaunder in "Ah, the Codeberg Drama"

mmaunder — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:54:29 +0000

Had to read this one twice: “Projects "written and maintained with heavy use of LLMs".”

Isn’t that almost everything these days? If you’re using vscode or codex or Claude CLI you’re in that category.

New comment by mmaunder in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

mmaunder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:59:42 +0000

The letter really dances around the issue that we don’t want to see a ban on the release and use of open weights foreign or domestic models in the US. If we do it will leave us at a severe competitive disadvantage in a global context. Many of us would consider moving our businesses out of the US to avoid being mired in a stagnant pond that reeks of government capture by a handful of corrupt laggards whose core competency is regulating away competition and killing domestic innovation.

New comment by mmaunder in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

mmaunder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:52:06 +0000

Not seeing a long thread there. Is that the wrong link?

New comment by mmaunder in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

mmaunder — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:06:53 +0000

Seems that “oracle routing” is a term the authors invented. Also sounds like they’re sending requests to all routes but assuming the readers request will route to the “best” model. The closest thing to what they’re describing is semantic routing using a NN search in a vector DB to make a routing decision, but the efficacy of this approach isn’t a slam dunk.

New comment by mmaunder in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

mmaunder — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:48:21 +0000

Re local LLMs: “You avoid the uncanny valley where the model appears to be intelligent before doing something stupid; the stupidity is self-evident and this helps calibrate your interactions.”

Making the authors stance on LLMs clear.

New comment by mmaunder in "Kimi K3 is now live"

mmaunder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:35:01 +0000

Agreed re reasoning. I’ve seen this play out with 5x reasoning negating cost savings.

New comment by mmaunder in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

mmaunder — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:40:24 +0000

Historically these have been quickly shut down without much of an explanation.

New comment by mmaunder in "GPT-5.6"

mmaunder — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:17:48 +0000

Or an allegedly even more dangerous model that they refuse to release. What a joke Anthropic has become.

New comment by mmaunder in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

mmaunder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:38:40 +0000

25 gig is still expensive for consumers to configure end to end.