news, !paper 2025-04-02

1779 US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU / bbc.com / 3402

1777 Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator / news.ycombinator.com / 459

768 TV Garden / tv.garden / 124

627 Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) / dorithegiant.com / 106

592 Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers / pico.sh / 136

576 I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad / pilledtexts.com / 540

479 Why I don't discuss politics with friends / shwin.co / 952

455 Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders / leanrada.com / 72

438 Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline / github.com/luskaner / 90

418 Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 / techradar.com / 318

360 Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 / tailscale.com / 92

324 RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) / reactormag.com / 105

323 An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server / github.com/juanfont / 78

311 Why is the world losing color? / culture-critic.com / 292

294 Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world / politico.com / 208

273 Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? / annehelen.substack.com / 295

256 Restructuring Announcement / automattic.com / 228

242 MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks / shd.mit.edu / 18

230 Where does air pollution come from? / ourworldindata.org / 136

203 Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure / spectrum.ieee.org / 46

200 How Google built its Gemini robotics models / blog.google / 84

195 Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS / matrix.org / 143

185 Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection / github.com/apple / 26

173 Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S. / washingtonpost.com / 180

167 Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction / smithsonianmag.com / 136

165 A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test / blog.cloudflare.com / 75

163 Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds / unsw.edu.au / 169

162 When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI / resobscura.substack.com / 58

150 Val Kilmer has died / nytimes.com / 59

147 Multi-Token Attention / arxiv.org / 43

145 Hacking the call records of millions of Americans / evanconnelly.github.io / 30

138 Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat / potter-yachters.org / 87

130 Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code / docs.mermaidchart.com / 52

125 Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos / chromewebstore.google.com / 55

122 Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app / recipeninja.ai / 240

121 A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb / phys.org / 28

120 Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch / arstechnica.com / 167

117 The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023) / idiallo.com / 126

112 Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap / matto.io / 42

103 PaperBench / openai.com / 29

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