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 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
  

  ai design rant
  

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• Default styles for h1 elements are changing
  

  browsers css web
  

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• Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing…
  

  distributed erlang testing
  

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• The YAML Exponent Problem causing chaos in your config files
  

  education
  

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• Generative AI in Servo
  

  practices
  

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• 6 usability improvements in GCC 15
  

  compilers
  

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• cargo-mutants: :zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them
  

  rust
  

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• The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
  

  ai security
  

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• BTrees, Inverted Indices, and a Model for Full Text Search
  

  databases practices rust
  

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• The Y Combinator Explained in Python
  

  plt python
  

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• Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway?
  

  rust
  

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• Usb-C and its overengineered history
  

  video hardware historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Man pages are great, man readers are the problem
  

  unix
  

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• Netbird: connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls
  

  networking security
  

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• Obituary for Cyc
  

  ai historical programming
  

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• OpenSSH 10.0 released
  

  networking security
  

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• facet: Rust reflection, serialization, deserialization — know the shape of your types
  

  plt rust
  

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• dreckly: pkgsrc fork focused on quality and portability to all UNIX-like platforms
  

  dragonflybsd freebsd linux netbsd openbsd unix
  

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• shorty: a C++ library for concise lambdas
  

  c++
  

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• The Barium Experiment
  

  graphics lisp
  

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• barrelfish
  

  osdev
  

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• A compiler for the Micron programming language - the Oberon with the power of C
  

  programming
  

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• Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?
  

  freebsd linux
  

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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 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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