Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3309569/huawei-unveils-first-laptop-running-self-developed-harmonyos-windows-licence-expires
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3309569/huawei-unveils-first-laptop-running-self-developed-harmonyos-windows-licence-expires
South China Morning Post
Huawei unveils a HarmonyOS laptop, its first Windows-free computer
The device features Huawei’s AI assistant and a wide range of Chinese software, including WPS and Alibaba’s DingTalk.
More people are getting their tattoos removed
https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-getting-their-tattoos-removed
https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-getting-their-tattoos-removed
GQ
Why Is Everyone Getting Their Tattoos Removed?
For decades, Americans were covering their bodies with more and more tattoos. Now, they’re getting them removed as fast as they can. We speak with the patients going under the laser, the tattoo-removal technicians whose business is booming, and the tattoo…
Ciro (YC S22) is hiring a software engineer to build AI agents for sales
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ciro/jobs
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ciro/jobs
Y Combinator
Jobs at Ciro
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV
https://catholicreview.org/chicago-native-cardinal-prevost-elected-pope-takes-name-leo-xiv/
https://catholicreview.org/chicago-native-cardinal-prevost-elected-pope-takes-name-leo-xiv/
Catholic Review
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV
Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.
The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017)
https://parisianfields.com/2017/11/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-visual-telegraph/
https://parisianfields.com/2017/11/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-visual-telegraph/
Parisian Fields
The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph
Sometimes we go looking for blog ideas, and sometimes they come along and tap us persistently on the shoulder. This one did – three times. First, I spotted an “advertorial” in a 1912 issue of a sma…
Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/05/08/why-do-llms-have-emergent-properties/
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/05/08/why-do-llms-have-emergent-properties/
John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
Large language models show unexpected "emergent" behaviors as they are scaled up. This should not at all be surprising. Here we give a possible explanation.
Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (2017)
https://felixge.de/2017/07/27/implementing-state-machines-in-postgresql/
https://felixge.de/2017/07/27/implementing-state-machines-in-postgresql/
Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context
https://github.com/martinfama/fui
https://github.com/martinfama/fui
GitHub
GitHub - martinfama/fui: framebuffer user interface
framebuffer user interface. Contribute to martinfama/fui development by creating an account on GitHub.
Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions
https://www.psu.edu/news/health-and-human-development/story/gender-characteristics-service-robots-can-influence-customer
https://www.psu.edu/news/health-and-human-development/story/gender-characteristics-service-robots-can-influence-customer
Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go
https://github.com/cogentcore/core
https://github.com/cogentcore/core
GitHub
GitHub - cogentcore/core: A free and open source framework for building powerful, fast, elegant 2D and 3D apps that run on macOS…
A free and open source framework for building powerful, fast, elegant 2D and 3D apps that run on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and web with a single Go codebase, allowing you to Code Once, R...
eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2025/05/06/ebpf-mystery-when-is-ipv4-not-ipv4-when-its-ipv6/
https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2025/05/06/ebpf-mystery-when-is-ipv4-not-ipv4-when-its-ipv6/
gripdev.xyz
eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6!
This adventures starts with a simple eBPF program to transparently redirect DNS requests on port 53 for a single program (or docker container).
To do this I used BPF_CGROUP_INET4_CONNECT on a cgroup. That lets me inspect and redirect traffic when syscall.connect…
To do this I used BPF_CGROUP_INET4_CONNECT on a cgroup. That lets me inspect and redirect traffic when syscall.connect…