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Google brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide
Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API to help Android developers tailor experiences based on user age ranges while preserving privacy.
‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation
Light Phone founders discuss their mission to create minimal devices for the anti-smartphone generation to combat digital distraction.
Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever
A Pew Research Center survey indicates growing US adult support for banning cellphones in middle and high school classrooms.
Harm is not Universal: Community-Specific Toxicity Detection is Urgently Needed
Researchers argue that universal toxicity detectors for text-to-image generation fail marginalized communities and propose community-specific toxicity detection (CTD).
Multiclass Classification without Labels via Posterior Simplex Geometry
This paper introduces a method for multiclass classification without labels (CWoLa) using posterior simplex geometry to recover latent classes from unlabeled mixtures.
Stable FP4 Training via Transposition-Invariant Block Quantization
Researchers propose a 2D block FP4 quantization framework to enable stable end-to-end 4-bit floating point training for LLMs with minimal performance loss.
Generative Distributionally Robust Optimization
The paper introduces Generative Distributionally Robust Optimization (GDRO), a framework using Sinkhorn divergence to improve decision-making in rare contexts.
Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto announces the launch of his new company, Superlogical.
Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used
An article discussing the design and utility of Hamburg's Stadtpark.
Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical
Mitchell Hashimoto starts a new venture called Superlogical.
AI in Linux
Discussion regarding the integration and impact of AI within the Linux kernel and ecosystem.
Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000
A user shares their experience of being 'rug-pulled' by their domain registrar, Hover, over a payment of $3000.
Baseload Is a Myth (2024)
A 2024 analysis arguing that the concept of 'baseload' power is a myth.
Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold
Google reportedly shuts down the Nobel Prize winning project AlphaFold.
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
Martha Stewart co-founds Hint, an AI assistant designed specifically for homeowners to manage property and maintenance.
Target SVP says its real AI moat isn't the models — it's everything built around them
Target SVP Siobhán Mc Feeney discusses the company's strategic approach to AI agents, emphasizing architectural guardrails and earned autonomy over raw model power.
Latent Stability Analysis of Malware Representations Under Feature-Space Perturbations
A research paper presenting a latent-stability analysis pipeline to evaluate how malware representations behave under feature-space perturbations.
Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system
Critique of Apple's App Store rating system and its perceived hostility towards developers and users.
Hugging Face: Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion
A detailed technical breakdown of a security intrusion into a frontier-lab agent at Hugging Face.
Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money
Tokenless is a new YC-backed tool that automatically switches AI models to optimize for cost savings.