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Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust

github.com — We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously. RUSTCRAFT, 1

Hiring: First Vibe Coder at TicketSidekick, Inc

ticketsidekick.com — Automate ticket triage, reduce resolution time, and improve support team efficiency with TicketSidekick. See how much you can save. HIRING, 2

Multi-Token Attention

arxiv.org — arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. MULTI-TOKEN, 3

Dow futures tumble 900 points, S&P 500 futures lose 3% on Trump's tariff rollout

cnbc.com — U.S. stock futures cratered as President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs of at least 10% and even higher for some countries, raising the risks of a global trade war that hits the already sputtering U.S. economy. DOW, 4

Recall and Recognition on Minimalism (in Brand Identity) [pdf]

komejournal.comRECALL, 5

Show HN: Is My App Secure?

news.ycombinator.com — Hey! Just like the title says, I’m hoping for some (nice) feedback on whether my app is secure. For context I build this with cursor + supabase and I’ve seen some horror stories so I want to be certain I don’t have any serious security vulnerabilities as we grow 400+ users so far! Thanks in advance :) APP, 6

How to Lock Down Your Phone When Crossing the U.S. Border

lifehacker.com — There has been increasing attention in recent weeks on travelers being hassled at the U.S. border with searches of their digital devices—and in some cases, denied entry as a result of what was found. Therefore, it's worth keeping in mind that there is a possibility when you arrive to the U.S. from abroad that law enforcement will pull you aside and request to search your phone, computer, and other electronics. HOW, 7

NASA cut $420M for climate science, moon modelling and more

newscientist.com — Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust research to educational programmes NASA, 8

Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

theregister.com — Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform. FIREFOX, 9

HallOumi

oumi.ai — Today, we're excited to introduce HallOumi-8B and HallOumi-8B-Classifier, a family of open-source claim verification (hallucination detection) models, outperforming DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, Llama 3.1 405B, and Claude Sonnet 3.5 at only 8 billion parameters! HALLOUMI, 10

With nod to neighbor Russia, Finland to quit global landmines ban

defensenews.com — MILAN — Finland, which shares NATO’s longest border with Russia, will withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, according to President Alexander Stubb. WITH, 11

Show HN: Website to help Canadian seniors check their benefit eligibility

news.ycombinator.com — Hey HN! WEBSITE, 12

To hit one of your biggest military bases with tariffs

twitter.com — Please switch to a supported browser to continue using x.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center. HIT, 13

Ask the Developer Vol. 16, Nintendo Switch 2

nintendo.com — Some of the images and videos shown in text were created during development. ASK, 14

Global scam industry evolving at 'unprecedented scale' despite recent crackdown

cnn.com — Hundreds of men and women stand in rows, divided by nationality, in the courtyard of a white-walled compound, flanked by armed guards in fatigues. GLOBAL, 15

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing

apnews.com — Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue TRUMP, 16

Congress moves on crypto 'stablecoin' rules, but Tether may be left out

washingtonpost.comCONGRESS, 17

To the rejected

johnqian.com — College admissions decisions are rolling out now. It seems they've grown even less reasonable. THE, 18

Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers

kernel.org — @monsieuricon Don't set the difficulty above 5 or it becomes very mathematically unlikely for people to pass the challenge! PROOF-OF-WORK, 19

Stressed bees lack a buzz in life (2024)

ncl.ac.uk — Stressed bees are much more likely to make pessimistic choices and lack a buzz in life, new research has revealed. STRESSED, 20

Eco-friendly detergent made from wood and corn shows promise

phys.org — March 22, 2025 ECO-FRIENDLY, 21

Your LLM Problem Isn't Tooling. It's Effort

tomdekan.com — I spend my time solving problems with AI and LLMs. Both at Stackfix as a software/AI engineer, and in previous AI companies that I started. YOUR, 22

Are People Bad at Their Jobs .or Are the Jobs Just Bad?

substack.com — Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue ARE, 23

MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

mit.edu — MIT’s Secure Hardware Design Class (6.5950/6.5951) is an open-source course that teaches students both how to attack modern CPUs and design architectures resilient to those attacks. Students gain hands-on experience hacking real processors and are taught various state-of-the-art hardware attacks and defenses. MIT, 24

Devin Roasts Manus AI. I Ran Some Tests to See If It's True

alpsencer.com — Hey everyone! Recently, I did a really quick comparison comparing two popular AI agents: Devin AI and Manus AI. You might know Devin as a specialized software engineer AI, while Manus is more of a general-purpose AI assistant. But how do they stack up against each other in practice? DEVIN, 25

The Hogs of New York

substack.com — Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue THE, 26

Microsoft Urges Businesses to Abandon Office Perpetual Licenses

microsoft.com — Blog PostMicrosoft 365 Blog 4 MIN READIs it time to upgrade from Microsoft Office? Everything you need to know.bryallenMicrosoftApr 01, 2025As a leader of a small or medium-sized business, you may have invested in Microsoft Office years ago through a perpetual license or “on-premises” version to equip your team with essential productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Over the years, these familiar tools have become ingrained in your daily operations—so much so that you can't imagine working without them. Yet, you may have started noticing limitations. Your apps are stuck on your desktop, limiting productivity anytime you're away from your office. You can't easily access your files or collaborate when working remotely or traveling, creating unnecessary friction for your team. Perh... MICROSOFT, 27

Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024

bsky.app — This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com. Post CAMERON WILSON cameronwilson.bsky.social did:plc:lxid5bd2zxkrgx47uy74txsy The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege 2025-04-02T09:12:09.395Z WIKIPEDIA, 28

With Behaviors Like These in Complex Systems, Who Needs Mechanisms?

aps.org — When observing a flock of starlings swirling through the sky in perfect coordination—a phenomenon known as murmuration—we witness the elegant interplay of individual actions creating collective behavior. In trying to understand these mesmerizing patterns, researchers can isolate simple rules based on an individual bird’s field of vision and distance to its neighbors, but there’s always a question of whether the model is really capturing the processes behind the bird interactions (Fig. 1). The problem is a general one in complex systems research, and it comes down to distinguishing mechanisms (the rules governing interactions) from behaviors (the observable patterns that emerge). WITH, 29

PaulXStretch – Extreme Time-Stretching

sonosaurus.com — We need your feedback! Please join the PaulXStretch Users group to get updates on new releases and let the community know what you discover while using the software, and get answers to your questions. Or send a message to support@sonosaurus.com. PAULXSTRETCH, 30

UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SWEs and CSMs to make construction more productive

Pulse (YC S24) Is Hiring

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring Front End Engineers