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 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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Installing every* Firefox extension
  

  browsers
  

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• Incremental compilation with LLVM
  

  zig
  

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• I made a productivity device for less than 50 bucks
  

  hardware
  

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• Favorite programmer website?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Why Aren't We uv Yet?
  

  python
  

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• Meet Kiki - an array language
  

  apl plt
  

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• Elastic tabstops (2006)
  

  practices
  

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• How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
  

  distributed formalmethods hardware testing
  

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• maki - the efficient coder (AI agent)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Wastrel milestone: full hoot support, with generational gc as a treat
  

  c compilers lisp wasm
  

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• Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
  

  linux security
  

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• Fixing AMDGPU's VRAM management for low-end GPUs
  

  graphics linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What are your programming "hunches" you haven't yet investigated?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design: All the industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
  

  hardware
  

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• The AI Great Leap Forward
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads
  

  c++
  

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• Let’s talk about LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• TIL that Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven
  

  editors
  

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• Open source security at Astral
  

  security
  

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• Applying "Programming Without Pointers" to an mbox indexer using Zig
  

  email zig
  

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• But what about K?
  

  apl c
  

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• Flatpak: Complete Sandbox Escape
  

  devops security
  

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• You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• unnix: Reproducible Nix environments without installing Nix
  

  nix
  

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• Easters - an adventofcode-like challenge for easter
  

  show event games programming
  

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• DPI bypass using eBPF sock_ops and fake TLS ClientHello injection
  

  c linux networking security
  

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• Mvidia: A game where you build a GPU
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Parsing AsciiDoc in Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Packaging and Init Systems
  

  linux rant
  

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• Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector
  

  linux practices
  

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• Components of A Coding Agent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Accumulated Test Vectors
  

  cryptography testing
  

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• Growing Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with Ash
  

  elixir web
  

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