Software Engineering TechCrunch

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.

Hardware/Chips TechCrunch

‘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.

Other The Verge

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.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

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).

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

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.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

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.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Generative Distributionally Robust Optimization

The paper introduces Generative Distributionally Robust Optimization (GDRO), a framework using Sinkhorn divergence to improve decision-making in rare contexts.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto announces the launch of his new company, Superlogical.

Other Hacker News

Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used

An article discussing the design and utility of Hamburg's Stadtpark.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical

Mitchell Hashimoto starts a new venture called Superlogical.

AI/ML Hacker News

AI in Linux

Discussion regarding the integration and impact of AI within the Linux kernel and ecosystem.

Other Hacker News

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.

Other Hacker News

Baseload Is a Myth (2024)

A 2024 analysis arguing that the concept of 'baseload' power is a myth.

AI/ML Hacker News

Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold

Google reportedly shuts down the Nobel Prize winning project AlphaFold.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

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.

AI/ML VentureBeat

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.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

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.

Other Hacker News

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.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

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.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

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.