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 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
  

  c compilers python
  

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• Slopsquatting: Planting Malicious Packages Under Names AIs Will Hallucinate
  

  ai programming security
  

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• Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
  

  c compilers dotnet rust
  

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• Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
  

  linux
  

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• The 5 Levels of Configuration Languages
  

  plt
  

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• BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
  

  hardware
  

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• How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
  

  vcs
  

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• Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

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• My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league), is it even legal?
  

  law rant
  

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• Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI
  

  video hardware
  

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• wgpu v25.0.0 released
  

  graphics release rust
  

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• ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig
  

  games release zig
  

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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 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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TCRF has been getting DDoSed
  

  ai web
  

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• Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam
  

  openbsd
  

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• Why Is This Site Built With C
  

  c
  

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• Giving up the dylib dream
  

  programming
  

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• Missile vs. Laser: The Game of Terminal Maneuvers
  

  show games math science
  

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• Interaction nets
  

  plt
  

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• An AlphaStation's SROM
  

  retrocomputing rust
  

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• Baseline implementations should be predictable
  

  compilers math
  

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• Fjall 2.8
  

  databases rust
  

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• Hoster - Built Using FreeBSD/Bhyve/ZFS/PF/Go Makes VM/Jails Deployments Fast and Easy
  

  freebsd virtualization
  

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• How to borrow memory (2021)
  

  compsci
  

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• There is no Vibe Engineering
  

  ai
  

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