The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
  

  math programming
  

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• Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image
  

  linux
  

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• Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
  

  security
  

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• We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Forge
  

  vcs
  

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• I am building a cloud
  

  devops
  

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• Borrow-checking without type-checking
  

  plt
  

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• Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)
  

  c c++ performance rust
  

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• Markdown (2004)
  

  programming
  

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• Meshcore.io - Why The Split?
  

  distributed release
  

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• Modern rendering culling techniques
  

  graphics
  

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• Email could have been X.400 times better
  

  email
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Yojam: a macOS default-browser shim that routes URLs through a rule engine
  

  mac release
  

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• Hello old new “Projects” directory
  

  linux programming
  

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• waves & particles
  

  art
  

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• When compilers surprise you
  

  compilers
  

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• The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
  

  hardware historical science
  

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• Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)
  

  historical
  

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• How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
  

  debugging go
  

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• Lenses in Rust and My Solution
  

  plt rust
  

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• Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-hosted Object Storage
  

  scaling
  

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• The Secret Life of Circuits
  

  hardware
  

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• Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
  

  c performance ruby
  

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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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