The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Yojam: a macOS default-browser shim that routes URLs through a rule engine
  

  mac release
  

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• Hello old new “Projects” directory
  

  linux programming
  

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• waves & particles
  

  art
  

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• When compilers surprise you
  

  compilers
  

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• The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
  

  hardware historical science
  

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• Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)
  

  historical
  

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• How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
  

  debugging go
  

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• Lenses in Rust and My Solution
  

  plt rust
  

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• Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-hosted Object Storage
  

  scaling
  

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• The Secret Life of Circuits
  

  hardware
  

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• Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
  

  c performance ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Deleteduser.com —a $15 PII Magnet
  

  security
  

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• Why is IPv6 so complicated?
  

  networking
  

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• SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`
  

  databases
  

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• It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation Data
  

  privacy
  

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• A simplified model of Fil-C
  

  c
  

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• Towards Trust in Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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• Practical Antiforgery in Software Design
  

  design security
  

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• An early look at tailscale-rs, a tsnet library in Rust
  

  networking rust
  

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• How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ frontend infrastructure in Rust
  

  c++ rust web
  

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• State of Kdenlive - 2026
  

  release
  

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• The lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie
  

  pdf unix
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Clojure: The Documentary
  

  video clojure
  

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• HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform
  

  security
  

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• The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Okay, what actually uses Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• tangled newsletter 01 — hello
  

  release
  

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• We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis
  

  cryptography science
  

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• Folk Computer
  

  art
  

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• Compiling to Java as a target language
  

  compilers java lisp
  

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• Many-Step Sequences in Go
  

  go
  

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• KDE Gear 26.04
  

  linux release
  

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• A time travel debugger for WebAssembly
  

  rust wasm
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The age of snarky UI
  

  design rant
  

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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
  

  networking
  

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• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
  

  practices
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
  

  windows
  

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• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Let Sleeping CPUs Lie — S0ix
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Modern Common Lisp with FSet
  

  book lisp
  

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• Stop using JWTs
  

  security
  

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• Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero
  

  databases
  

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• Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  

  distributed
  

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• Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick
  

  programming
  

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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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