The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Things Zig comptime Won't Do
  

  plt zig
  

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• Beej's Guide to Git
  

  vcs
  

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• How I use Kate Editor
  

  editors
  

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• Ansible: pure (only in its) pragmatism
  

  linux
  

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• Efficient E-Matching for Super Optimizers
  

  math performance zig
  

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• The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2
  

  ai mobile security web
  

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• Common shell script mistakes
  

  programming
  

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• Revisiting an early critique of formal verification
  

  formalmethods historical
  

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• On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
  

  compsci philosophy practices
  

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• Common Expression Language
  

  plt programming
  

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• backdooms: A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code
  

  art games web
  

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• Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)
  

  c networking retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Frankenstein’s `__init__`
  

  python
  

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• Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer
  

  performance zig
  

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• Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?
  

  graphics rust
  

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• Buried Toggles Begging to be Brought to Light
  

  linux
  

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• 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
  

  cryptography python
  

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• Vendoring
  

  practices programming
  

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• Neovim users: what AI tools are you using?
  

  ask ai editors vim
  

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• On Bloat
  

  slides go performance programming
  

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• Easter hack: terraform-provider-openwrt
  

  devops linux
  

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• Antithesis driven testing
  

  distributed testing
  

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• falsify: Hypothesis-inspired shrinking for Haskell
  

  haskell python testing
  

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• Lustre v5.0.0 released
  

  gleam web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Stop Writing `__init__` Methods
  

  python
  

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• Why I Cannot Be Technical
  

  culture
  

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• Reflections on Unikernels
  

  devops osdev
  

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• Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do
  

  linux security
  

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• Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before
  

  culture historical retrocomputing
  

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• Four Years of Jai
  

  plt
  

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• Ratatui - Are We Embedded Yet?
  

  show rust
  

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• Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5
  

  ai
  

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• Just Throw It Into Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
  

  mobile privacy
  

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• Is No PaaS really a good idea for Rails?
  

  devops ruby
  

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• traceboot: precise and lightweight tracing for boot and shell scripts
  

  show performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers
  

  browsers web
  

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• Unsure Calculator
  

  show math visualization
  

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• Arch Linux: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
  

  linux
  

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• deb-books: books hidden in Debian source packages
  

  art
  

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• tariff: The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again
  

  python satire
  

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• the lifecycle of a pull request
  

  vcs
  

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• TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days
  

  security web
  

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• Zig and GPUs
  

  graphics zig
  

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• (All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too
  

  databases
  

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• Getting better performance out of object storage
  

  distributed
  

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• Development On Apple Silicon with UTM
  

  mac virtualization
  

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• Learning Fennel from Scratch to Develop Neovim Plugins
  

  lisp vim
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• MITRE will stop issuing new CVEs
  

  security
  

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• go-away (another http proxy for LLM scraper defence)
  

  ai security web
  

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• Update on Spain and LaLiga blocks of the internet
  

  javascript law networking
  

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• Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids
  

  design
  

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• Mastodon Exit Interview
  

  distributed rant web
  

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• JSX Over The Wire
  

  web
  

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• When Life Gives You Java
  

  java practices programming
  

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• Cutting Down Rust Compile Times With One Thousand Crates
  

  rust
  

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• Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
  

  databases visualization
  

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• An Introduction to Modern CMake
  

  c++
  

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• Atomicless Concurrency (2023)
  

  assembly linux performance
  

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• Bug Bash 2025 Conference Experience
  

  distributed testing
  

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