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Daily Lobsters for 2026-04-16

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

  • It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
    compsci programming
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  • I don't care that it's X times faster
    performance rant
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  • Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
    compilers
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  • Things you didn't know about indexes
    databases
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  • Saying Goodbye to Agile
    practices vibecoding
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  • You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
    law
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  • The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
    web
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  • Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
    security
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  • Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
    c
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  • My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs
    programming
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  • SDL3 - Add DOS platform support
    c games programming retrocomputing
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  • TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups
    release ruby
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c, compilers, compsci, databases, games, law, performance, practices, programming, rant, release, retrocomputing, ruby, security, vibecoding, web

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