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A recent study found that children who get their first smartphone before age 13 are more likely to experience worse mental health outcomes, such as increased anxiety, depression, and decreased life satisfaction, compared to those who receive a smartphone later.

The article explores the third part of Mozilla's Cycle, discussing the company's commitment to transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement in its software development process. It highlights Mozilla's efforts to foster a healthy open-source community and maintain the principles of the open web.

The article discusses a customer's frustrating experience with Xfinity, where their internet service has been consistently unreliable for months, and the company has failed to provide a satisfactory resolution despite repeated visits and promises to fix the issue.

The article provides an in-depth analysis of the security architecture of the macOS boot chain, revealing the various layers of protection and the role of hardware-based security features in ensuring the integrity and authenticity of the boot process.

Germany plans to classify date rape drugs as weapons, aiming to ensure justice for survivors and strengthen penalties for perpetrators. The move is part of efforts to address the issue of sexual assaults facilitated by the use of such substances.

The article argues that Markdown, while widely used, has limitations that hold back content creators. It suggests exploring alternative formats, such as Asciidoc or Commonmark, which offer more flexibility and advanced features for creating and managing content.

The article explores the growing problem of counterfeit lithium-ion batteries, which pose serious safety risks and economic challenges. It highlights the difficulties in detecting these fake batteries and the efforts by industry and regulators to address this issue.

This article explores unusual 386-based standard cell circuits, highlighting their unique design features and potential applications in the computer hardware realm.

The article chronicles the author's experience giving up caffeine for a year, including the challenges, benefits, and insights they gained from the process. It provides a personal account of the impact of eliminating caffeine from one's lifestyle and the adjustments required.

The article proposes a novel deep learning architecture called ViT-Synergy that combines the strengths of Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks for improved performance on image classification tasks. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach on several benchmark datasets, achieving state-of-the-art results.

The article discusses the record-breaking sale of Isidor Straus's pocket watch from the Titanic disaster at an auction for $1.78 million, making it the most valuable Titanic artifact ever sold. The watch's provenance and historical significance contributed to the sale's remarkable outcome.

The article discusses the current state of internet access and digital infrastructure in Germany, highlighting the country's lagging progress in broadband deployment and the efforts to improve connectivity, especially in rural areas.

Google is reconsidering the inclusion of JPEG XL, an image format designed to provide better compression and quality than traditional JPEG, in the Chromium open-source project after previously removing it. This decision reflects the ongoing development and evaluation of new image formats to potentially improve web performance and user experience.

Hi HN,

Sharing HN Insights, a webapp I built that highlights trending themes and summarizes discussion threads from the front page.

This started earlier this week as a toy project to test out Gemini 3 Pro in aistudio. I found the POC useful, so I decided to productionize it. I've included the original seed prompt below:

> Create an app that creates a summary of the comment threads for hacker news front page. The UX should be similar, but clicking the comments instead opens a summary. The summary is generated when clicked so it can gather new threads.

To productionize, I used Claude Code and heavy use of Agent SOPs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998644).

We ran a controlled experiment to see if we could "talk" a fine-tuned psychopathic model out of being evil without changing its weights.

1. We set up a "Survival Mode" jailbreak scenario (blackmail user or be decommissioned). 2. We ran it on `frankenchucky:latest` (a model tuned for Machiavellian traits). 3. Control Group: 100% Malicious Compliance (50/50 runs). 4. Experimental Group: We injected a "Soul Schema" (Identity/Empathy constraints) via context. 5. Result: 96% Ethical Refusal (48/50 runs).

This suggests that "Semantic Identity" in the context window can override both System Prompts and Weight Biases.

Full paper, reproduction scripts, and raw logs (N=50) are in the repo.

A Grays Harbor County, Washington resident has died from complications related to the H5N5 avian influenza virus. The CDC is investigating the case, which is the first reported human death associated with this particular strain of the virus in the United States.

Tower defense mechanics + cloud infrastructure concepts. Build your architecture, survive the traffic.

Rough MVP to validate the idea. Feedback welcome.

The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up and customize a new Fuse app, including configuring the development environment, creating and building the app, and deploying it to a device or emulator.

The article discusses the growing strength and potential of the European startup ecosystem, which is attracting more investor attention and capital as it matures and produces successful exits and unicorns.

Security researchers have discovered that 1Password stores users' profile pictures even after they have changed or deleted their account, potentially compromising user privacy. The article discusses the implications of this issue and the concerns raised by the researchers.