The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• FreeDOS 1.4 released
  

  osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Better typography with text-wrap pretty
  

  css design
  

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• Parser Combinators Beat Regexes
  

  haskell
  

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• rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
  

  mac
  

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• Emacs Startup Time Doesn’t Matter
  

  emacs
  

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• Go Zero Values
  

  go
  

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• Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
  

  programming
  

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• Beware when moving a std::optional (2023)
  

  c++
  

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• Every programming language needs its killer app to succeed
  

  programming
  

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• "Verified" "Compilation" of "Python" with Knuckledragger, GCC, and Ghidra
  

  assembly compilers formalmethods python reversing
  

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• MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
  

  ai ruby web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• More Contrast, Please
  

  web
  

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• The Best Programmers I Know
  

  programming
  

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• The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
  

  culture practices
  

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• My Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just Focus' Laptop
  

  freebsd
  

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• Writing C for curl
  

  c plt
  

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• Vector Sets are part of Redis
  

  databases
  

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• 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful
  

  vcs
  

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• Lux - a new package manager for Lua
  

  lua
  

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• Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
  

  ios mac
  

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• GoboLinux 017.01: the most experimental Linux's first new release in about 5Y
  

  linux osdev
  

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• MacLynx beta 6: back to the Power Mac
  

  mac retrocomputing
  

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• rauthy: OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Llama 4 herd
  

  ai release
  

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• Ran out of infrastructure titles
  

  devops
  

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• Nix derivations by hand, without guessing
  

  nix
  

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• Done with GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks
  

  linux practices release
  

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• A short story of my programming language Easylang
  

  education programming wasm
  

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• Email over NNCP (via exim)
  

  release security
  

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• Tag proposal: ATProto
  

  meta
  

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• Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript
  

  web
  

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• The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (and may surprise you)
  

  devops security
  

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• How We Hacked a Software Supply Chain for $50K
  

  security
  

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• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  

  book programming
  

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• When should a compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
  

  compilers
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Annotated Unix Magic Poster
  

  historical unix
  

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• The Best Refactoring You've Never Heard Of
  

  programming
  

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• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort & Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  

  pdf ai
  

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• 8-pin Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation
  

  plt
  

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• BPF From Scratch In Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly
  

  compilers ml plt
  

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• A Simple Reply
  

  compilers
  

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• Investigating MacPaint's Source Code
  

  historical mac
  

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• Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering
  

  slides video compilers ml performance
  

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• Atproto Ethos
  

  api distributed web
  

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• JIT calculators finale
  

  assembly compilers rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I stopped using AI code editors
  

  ai
  

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• The Wizard and His Shell
  

  c design linux
  

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• Pitfalls of Safe Rust
  

  practices rust
  

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• How We Got the Generics We Have: (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love erasure)
  

  java plt
  

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• On JavaScript's Weirdness
  

  javascript
  

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• Nix that looks like Bazel
  

  nix
  

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• Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code
  

  assembly retrocomputing
  

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• [SECURITY] [DSA 5892-1] atop security update
  

  linux security
  

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• regname: Mass renamer TUI written in Rust
  

  show rust
  

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• Rewriting my site in vanilla web
  

  web
  

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• Fast(er) binary search in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Clawtype - a custom wearable chorded keyboard & mouse
  

  show hardware rust
  

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