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 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your code is worthless
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The nvim-treesitter repository was archived
  

  editors programming vim
  

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• Where can I find the old internet?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi
  

  networking retrocomputing
  

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• Why Nobody Can Verify What Booted Your Server
  

  security
  

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• Legibility is Ruining You
  

  culture
  

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• 800 Rust terminal projects in 3 years
  

  show rust
  

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• Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• Baby’s Second Garbage Collector
  

  compsci
  

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• A CSS Engine in OCaml
  

  ml web
  

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• Signals, the push-pull based algorithm
  

  javascript web
  

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• A Rave Review of Superpowers (for Claude Code)
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Magic Link Pitfalls
  

  browsers email security
  

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• "﷽" U+FDFD: ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM (Unicode Character)
  

  a11y
  

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• Forking httpx as httpxyz
  

  python
  

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• VitruvianOS
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.95 “Kakigōri”
  

  nix release
  

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• Missile Defense is NP-Complete
  

  compsci
  

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• Pine64 FOSDEM 2026 Update
  

  hardware
  

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• Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Swift 6.3 released
  

  release swift
  

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• Mojo's not (yet) Python
  

  plt python
  

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• Fyrox 1.0.0
  

  games graphics release rust
  

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• Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
  

  law
  

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• Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The Gemini Protocol in 2026
  

  web
  

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• typenix: Full typing for Nix based on TypeScript
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• A sufficiently detailed spec is code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• "LinkedIn Speak" was added to Kagi Translate
  

  satire web
  

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• yes, all longest regex matches in linear time is possible
  

  compsci rust
  

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• When perfection is table stakes
  

  practices
  

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• The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
  

  networking
  

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• Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track
  

  performance plt python
  

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• Hacking the Xbox One
  

  video hardware security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Compose key is magic
  

  linux
  

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• An ode to bzip
  

  compsci programming
  

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• XML is a cheap DSL
  

  programming
  

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• Baochip: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now, and How It Came About
  

  hardware
  

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• Libadwaita 1.9
  

  graphics release
  

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• I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
  

  culture practices
  

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• A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)
  

  vim
  

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• Torturing rustc by Emulating HKTs, Causing an Inductive Cycle and Borking the Compiler
  

  rust
  

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• OpenClaw and the Dream of Free Labour
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Getting started with Claude for software development
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Reinventing Python's AsyncIO
  

  python
  

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• Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence
  

  browsers rant
  

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