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
  

  Comments
• 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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No one can force me to have a secure website
  

  pdf satire security web
  

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• Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes
  

  zig
  

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• Rust should have stable tail calls
  

  rust
  

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• Debloat your async Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Razor1911 – Razor1911
  

  video art
  

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• 120+ Icons and Counting
  

  design
  

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• KeePassχ - a KeePassXC fork
  

  security
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket
  

  cryptography security
  

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• A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jemalloc 5.3.1 released
  

  release
  

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• Can we finally use C++ Modules in 2026?
  

  c++
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Servo 0.1.0 (first LTS version) is now available on crates.io
  

  browsers release web
  

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• Forgejo monthly report - March 2026
  

  vcs
  

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• All elementary functions from a single binary operator
  

  math
  

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• Bring Back Idiomatic Design
  

  design
  

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• Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug
  

  formalmethods plt security vibecoding
  

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• The Business Case for Vanilla JS
  

  javascript
  

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• Programming used to be free
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Did you notice the command error exit in the shell?
  

  linux
  

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• Native Raspberry Pi 3b version of the Oberon System 3
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Configuration flags are where software goes to rot
  

  programming
  

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• GitHub Stacked PRs
  

  vcs
  

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• Little LaTeX Pearls
  

  math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No one owes you supply-chain security
  

  security
  

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• Brocards for vulnerability triage
  

  security
  

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• 48 hours ago lobste.rs surpassed 20,000 users
  

  meta
  

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• How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Rust is Just a Tool
  

  culture
  

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• The peril of laziness lost
  

  vibecoding
  

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• IrDA
  

  historical networking
  

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• Writing design docs
  

  practices
  

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• Linux Kernel AI Coding Assistants Policy
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Rust is susceptible to supply chain attacks and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable
  

  rust security
  

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• Replacing Lenovo’s WWAN Unlock Blob with a 100-Line Bash Script
  

  linux networking
  

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• Surely there must be a way to make container secrets less dangerous?
  

  devops security
  

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