Daily Tech News 1 September 2026

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I'm an Amazon HR drone who hasn't coded in 25 years. Then I didn't code. (About Amazon)

If you count code generators, my LOC count is in the tens of billions. Shipped to production. And I wrote those code generators.
Speaking of retarded people, California. (Linuxiac)

Just unanimously passed an age of consent law for keyboards.

Tech News

Database, programming language, standard library, extended library, and now another database.

Then the actual applications.

Not sure how much code I've "written" in the last couple of weeks, but I did build an entire new programming language and then create 42,000 lines of code in that new language.
Broadcom has pledged to lock down open source Python and Java libraries. (The Register)

Broadcom now owns VMWare. VMWare owns RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ has myxomatosis.
OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire. (The Register)

Basically, yeah.
The safest job from AI may be writing. (Murat Buffalo)

Press X to doubt.
Asus has announced an RTX Spark laptop. (Notebook Check)

Y tho.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Glitter is the Devil's bath salts.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:55 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 04:56 AM (odBC9)

2 Poke.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 01, 2026 04:57 AM (BLOW1)

3 Top 5?

Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (/aZwr)

4 Woo hoo!

Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (/aZwr)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Mornin'

Going for a walk now. Going to be very hot later. September coming in like mid July in Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (sAmhv)

7 Morning Techsters.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 01, 2026 05:02 AM (NIsaq)

8 Attack the Day!

Posted by: the country place that no one knows about at September 01, 2026 05:03 AM (LOZbR)

9 After three+ years with my Intel i7-based PC, I have decided that it is a slow piece of crap.

I want to yank the CPU and replace it with anything else that will fit.

Does Tonka make chips?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 01, 2026 05:06 AM (HwKLm)

10 76° and humid, late summer very much like mid summer.

Posted by: Accomack at September 01, 2026 05:07 AM (/Chlc)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 01, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

12 Amazon is taking Jane Doe line workers and having them work on satellites.

You have got to be kidding me.

Posted by: pawn at September 01, 2026 05:12 AM (c/R9o)

13 The article by the Amazon HR leader about getting back to programming was interesting. I’m not a big corporate type so I don’t see the tech integration often. How people will think about using data and combining stuff out side the traditional accounting two column approach is changing so rapidly.

I am enjoying learning about it but glad my career is at a stage where I’m almost phased out anyway.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 01, 2026 05:15 AM (L+WVi)

14 The safest job from AI may be writing. (Murat Buffalo)

Press X to doubt.

I want to believe! But this is the second time I've tried to read that piece and to me it is unreadable. Oh, the irony, maybe.

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

15 Evening and morning, satellites and satraps of the vast and powerful AoSHQ Empire! Look upon our threads and comments, Ye Mighty, and despair!

Tiu's Day. Trudge, trudge, trudge.

A fedora hat I've had for sale on eBay for months has finally sold, and I have to get it into the mail today. Whatchoo up to?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:22 AM (wzUl9)

16 ... although he does concede that his own writing is "broken yet soulful." Maybe a better writer could better make the argument.

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

17 From the "writing" article: "I think it is wicked hard to bride the final 20% . . ."

Ain't easy to groom it either. Uh, spell-check, anybody?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:24 AM (wzUl9)

18 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:22 AM (wzUl9

Good morning. all!. I am glad that your hat sold. I have always thought it would be a good idea to sell things on the Internet, but I'm not sure how to do that.

I am teaching a Bible study today with the seniors at the nursing home today. I don't know how many will show up because several of the dear ones are not well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:29 AM (rHgXV)

19 Well, gee willikers! I've always wanted to work on a X-band corrugated-horn orthomode transducer with cryogenically cooled INP HEMT low-noise blocked harmonic mixed downconverter!

Posted by: pawn at September 01, 2026 05:30 AM (c/R9o)

20 The (177!) comments under the article in its posting at Hacker News are substantive.

https://tinyurl.com/48zwxphy

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

21 *the writing article

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)

22 I think that the AI writing article was written by AI...how else to explain how poorly written it is!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 01, 2026 05:37 AM (HwKLm)

23 Good morning. all!. I am glad that your hat sold. I have always thought it would be a good idea to sell things on the Internet, but I'm not sure how to do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026

***
Good morning, Fen,

No, it's not difficult to sell on eBay, though I suppose if you had lots of items (a "store"), it could get tough to keep it all straight. You take pics of the item and get them on your computer, write up the description, then sign in to eBay and follow its "How to sell" instructions. It will tell you the fields to fill out and when to upload the pics. I kept it simple with the hats: No returns, honest descriptions. You estimate the weight of the package when it is mailed -- put it into its box and bring it to the post office to be weighed, or go to Office Depot. EBay calculates a range of shipping prices for you based on that weight and your zip code.

When it sells, you print out a prepaid shipping label, which deducts some money from your payout (but the buyer paid for it), package it up, and ship it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)

24 I am reading "True Grit" again after about 30 years. It is very entertaining. I had to laugh at this quote on the back, because my son is a Cormac McCarthy fan, and Roy Blount, Jr says this about McCarthy and Charles Portis: "Charles Portis could be Cormac McCarthy, but he'd rather be funny." My son disagreed. He finds Cormac McCarthy funny.

This is an amusing line where Rooster Coburn is talking about whiskey, and a brand he says is very good and recommends it to help Mattie's cold:

"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains," she says.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:40 AM (rHgXV)

25 Oh, and Fen, you need to link a bank account with PayPal so eBay can direct-deposit your money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

26 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)

Thanks. That is very helpful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:41 AM (rHgXV)

27 It occurs to me that Pixy was being facetious.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 01, 2026 05:42 AM (36x1j)

28 This is an amusing line where Rooster Coburn is talking about whiskey, and a brand he says is very good and recommends it to help Mattie's cold:

"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains," she says.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026

***
Used in the 1969 film, as was a great deal of Portis's dialog. Except for its ending, the John Wayne-Kim Darby film is a very faithful adaptation of the novel, almost as much as Polanski's Rosemary's Baby was the year before.

The new movie with Jeff Bridges is faithful too, but it is drab and colorless --"ashen," as one of our commenters said about another film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

29 27 It occurs to me that Pixy was being facetious.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 01, 2026 05:42 AM (36x1j)

This is evergreen!

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)

30 Temp of 81 F. now. I don't want to look up the heat index, as it will cause me not to work out. When I get back I can check and have my heat stroke retroactively.

We have another 60% chance of rain starting around noon, thanks to the storm off the coast. Just the usual summertime downpour, probably. I intend to be back from the post office and library by then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

31 Fen, if you want to keep it simpler, you can pay for the shipping instead of the buyer. Just set your price a bit higher to cover it. I suppose it'll work the same: You enter the weight of the total package and the destination zip code (or eBay gets it from the buyer), and the shipping label will take care of it by deducting that from your payout.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

32 heh

from the Hacker News comments on the "writing" article:

Safest job from AI is also the oldest job.

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

33 "Amazon's HR leader used AI to write 100,000 lines of code -- 25 years after she last coded."

And how efficient and optimized is that code? If the code a human designed and wrote would run in O(n) time, but the AI generated something that runs in O(n log n), or worse yet O(n^2) time, it might look okay on a single instance run but as soon as that thing has to scale up, the time delay is going to make itself felt harshly (the total runtime will be ghastly long.)

I've experienced this personally on a project (way before the days of LLM generated code.) A module written by another project team member was imperceptibly slower on a single call when used by an end-user, but when it was called repeatedly in a large-scale batch processing run, it caused the total run time of the batch to balloon from 2 to 3 hours into days. (He wasn't paying attention to the efficiency.)

It's starting to make sense why they want a ridiculous number of data centers with the obscene amount of processing power. They're willing to lean hard on the hardware layer to make up for code that is generated quickly, but is inefficient, or at least that's my guess.

Ugh. I hope I'm wrong. I fear I'm right.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

34 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl

Thanks. I was wondering how the two films compared . I have only seen the original one years ago, which I enjoyed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (W90Ou)

35
Thanks. I was wondering how the two films compared . I have only seen the original one years ago, which I enjoyed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026

***
Oh, the new one is a worthy adaptation, I

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

36 *wakes up*
*yawns*
*considers going back to sleep vs commitment to walk each morning*
.
.
.
*still considering*

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 01, 2026 05:57 AM (aJQbY)

37 @17/Wolfus: {From the "writing" article: "I think it is wicked hard to bride the final 20% . . ."

Ain't easy to groom it either. Uh, spell-check, anybody?}

You wound that poor author! Thankfully we can debride that wound...

*ducks and runs*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:58 AM (O7YUW)

38 Ugh. I hope I'm wrong. I fear I'm right.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

Have no fear. Agentic code optimization is on the way!

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (EKs60)

39 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (V0/Sp)

40 Oops! Hit "post" too soon.

The newer True Grit is a worthy adaptation, I guess. Bridges is pretty good, though he does mumble a few of the lines; the actress playing Mattie is actually close to Mattie's age; Matt Damon makes a good Texas Ranger, and Josh Brolin a good Tom Chaney. But, like so many movies nowadays, it's filmed in a drab style, and night scenes are so dark you find it hard to tell who's speaking or doing whatever is going on in the scene.

This one does give you the book's ending, though, if that's important. Personally I love the 1969 film's ending.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

41 Thanks. I was wondering how the two films compared . I have only seen the original one years ago, which I enjoyed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I actually prefer the more recent version because I always thought Kim Darby as Maddie was terrible casting. Glen Campbell too.

Brolin as Tom Chaney comes across as meaner and maybe a little mentally slow. The scene in the courthouse is great and I liked the music.

The language kept me on my toes like when they came across the hanged man and Maddie asked why they hanged him so high up in the tree and Rooster said "I do not know. Perhaps in the belief it would make him more dead."

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 01, 2026 06:04 AM (l26NL)

42 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9

Thanks. That was an interesting review.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 06:05 AM (W90Ou)

43 33 If the code a human designed and wrote would run in O(n) time, but the AI generated something that runs in O(n log n), or worse yet O(n^2) time
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

MATH

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:06 AM (odBC9)

44 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 01, 2026 06:04 AM (l26NL)

Thanks. It's so interesting to read people who have seen both movies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 06:07 AM (W90Ou)

45 You're filmed in a drab style. Drabby.

Posted by: I'm not drab, you're drab! at September 01, 2026 06:11 AM (R003y)

46 I was reading an article yesterday, translated into English, which used the word "pilfer," and I thought, I don't think that word gets used much anymore. It sounded like it was from the era of footpads!

Google Book Ngram Viewer agrees:

https://tinyurl.com/2vddf73x

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)

47 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: All that glisters is not gold.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 01, 2026 06:14 AM (amcLV)

48 I see the Linus of the Linux fame used LLM to find and fix a bug and people are upset.

Is not that the point of LLM to do large tedious work?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 06:14 AM (/+uur)

49 29 27 It occurs to me that Pixy was being facetious.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 01, 2026 05:42 AM (36x1j)

This is evergreen!
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)

NTTAWWT

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:15 AM (odBC9)

50 47 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: All that glisters is not gold.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 01, 2026 06:14 AM (amcLV)

Haha!

glister, Ngram:

https://tinyurl.com/yey6mae3

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)

51 My own "coding heroism" story: Working in FoxPro, I was asked to improve the processing time of a report. Digging into it, I found the programmer had set it up to compare every single record in a 1000-record table with every record in another 1000-record table. One million comparisons every time the report ran -- an hour or more!

There were only about twenty-five records that met the condition needed for the report. I set up a relation between the two tables and searched for the condition in the first table, then looked to see if the corresponding record had been found in the second. If so, do some stuff; if not, go back to the first table and search again.

The report ran in a few minutes, and I looked like a genius. (Until I got laid off, that was.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

52 At 400 AM CDT (0900 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Edouard was located near latitude 29.0 North, longitude 92.8 West. Edouard is moving toward the west-northwest near 8 mph (13 km/h). A west-northwestward to northwestward motion is forecast during the next day or two. On the forecast track, the center of Edouard is forecast to reach the northwestern Gulf Coast within the warning area later today and move inland over southeast Texas tonight.

Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph (65 km/h)

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 06:18 AM (/+uur)

53 33 He wasn't paying attention to the efficiency.

...

Ugh. I hope I'm wrong. I fear I'm right.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

LLMs have even less sense of time than interns.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 01, 2026 06:20 AM (BLOW1)

54 Tropical Storm Edouard

headed for Texas and Louisiana

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)

55 APNews on the storm

https://tinyurl.com/25hrvskr

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)

56 R E E E E E E E E E E E E E E

Posted by: The Man from REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at September 01, 2026 06:23 AM (+Gg0A)

57 mornin yall. What happened to Microsquat's office servers yesterday? I had some reports of email not working.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:24 AM (MWfyi)

58 "Y tho"

haha

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:25 AM (odBC9)

59 19 where is the continuum transfunctioner?

Dude!

Posted by: Fenderbender at September 01, 2026 06:25 AM (1FEc1)

60 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 01, 2026 06:25 AM (Hbeqj)

61 Gas is above $4.40 in se Pa

Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 06:26 AM (XfTt/)

62
National Weather Service

https://www.weather.gov

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)

63 Repeat Gospel song, " I heard my Savior call" sung by Hank Williams, Sr:

https://tinyurl.com/2kf3tdz5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 06:27 AM (rHgXV)

64 Oh, they finally said what was going on:

"An issue within a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services is resulting in impact."

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

65 "is resulting in impact"

The resulting impact has my composition teacher is spinning in her grave.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:29 AM (MWfyi)

66 "Glitter is the Devil's bath salts."

a not-Dolly sentiment

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:29 AM (odBC9)

67 "As recovery signals continue to trend positively, we're maintaining extended monitoring across affected service workflows to ensure improvements are sustained."

Gawd I hate Microsoft.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:31 AM (MWfyi)

68 "an issue ... is resulting in impact"

Like when Pixy poked us.

2 Poke.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 01, 2026 04:57 AM (BLOW1)

Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)

69 When it sells, you print out a prepaid shipping label, which deducts some money from your payout (but the buyer paid for it), package it up, and ship it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)

Just don't forget to pay your taxes on the sale proceeds.

Posted by: your friends at the tax office at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (1Ff7Z)

70 No Internet will take you straight to the cops.

3WP:

https://tinyurl.com/2drks5n8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (x8PQF)

71 My car left the road and encountered a tree, resulting in impact.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (MWfyi)

72 Greetings and good morning, everyone! We just got back from vacation and I'm taking the day off to unwind.

On the topic of Microsoft, I was helping do some photo editing with Paint. Win10? No problem. The menu is laid out clearly and editing is simple. Win11 which is on my wife's laptop? The interface is laid out in a way that says "We hate you and want you to die."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (/k3in)

73 Speaking of retarded people, California. (Linuxiac)

Just unanimously passed an age of consent law for keyboards.
-

/opens los angeles storefront selling nothing but ancient keyboards

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (x8PQF)

74 I stopped selling on ebay. After shipping, ebay fees , PayPal, and taxes are paid and then you have to take the item to be dropped off, it's almost not worth the effort.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (MWfyi)

75 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 01, 2026 06:35 AM (2Ez/1)

76 My car left the road and encountered a tree, resulting in impact.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (MWfyi)
-

Are you saying that the accident left an impression on you? Should we send flowers?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 06:35 AM (x8PQF)

77 " Birdbath status?"

The lack of water is resulting in impact.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:36 AM (MWfyi)

78 Ha! I remember that. They made a BIG DEAL about ordinary folks selling more than $600 on eBay.

When MFers are stealing billions and billions. There really aren’t any suitable words for people like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 06:36 AM (IkLDu)

79 74 I stopped selling on ebay. After shipping, ebay fees , PayPal, and taxes are paid and then you have to take the item to be dropped off, it's almost not worth the effort.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (MWfyi)

No stars. A quitter. Not a good Ebayer.

Posted by: 0/5 Stars at September 01, 2026 06:37 AM (QHvF0)

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