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 March 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can we consider self-promo discussion off-topic?
  

  meta
  

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• A Society That Lost Focus
  

  philosophy
  

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• GIMP 3.0 Released
  

  release
  

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• Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• Stop Using and Recommending React
  

  javascript web
  

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• Slack: The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Done
  

  practices
  

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• The Atrocious State Of Binary Compatibility on Linux and How To Address It
  

  linux
  

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• Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised
  

  security
  

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• Introducing Intel® Advanced Performance Extensions (Intel® APX)
  

  hardware
  

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• I don't think error handling is a solved problem in language design
  

  plt
  

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• Wherein I Explain Why Emacs Is The Best Tool For WordPress
  

  emacs
  

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• Offline PKI using 3 YubiKeys and an ARM single board computer
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
  

  rant vcs
  

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• An introduction to Magit, an Emacs mode for Git
  

  emacs
  

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• A look at Firefox forks
  

  browsers
  

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• TinyKVM: The Fastest Sandbox
  

  linux virtualization
  

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• i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
  

  hardware web
  

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• What Programming Concepts do you Struggle to Grok or Use in Production?
  

  ask compsci programming
  

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• IO devices and latency
  

  performance visualization
  

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• Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 / Expat 2.7.0 released, includes security fixes
  

  c programming security
  

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• It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself
  

  compsci games
  

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• fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op
  

  databases
  

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• did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
  

  databases debugging
  

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• PAM unixsock
  

  security unix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software
  

  ios rant
  

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• Tangled — a git collaboration platform built on atproto
  

  show distributed vcs
  

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• Effective Rust
  

  rust
  

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• illuminant - ActivityPub server with NNTP interface
  

  distributed haskell web
  

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• Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?
  

  mac
  

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• The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
  

  hardware historical
  

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• How fast can you open 1000 files?
  

  linux mac
  

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• Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn
  

  rust
  

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• Cleaner codebase, happier mind
  

  practices
  

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• VT220 font emulation in browser
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml
  

  pdf formalmethods ml
  

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• Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 1
  

  emacs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed
  

  security
  

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• Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?
  

  practices web
  

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• Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets
  

  plt
  

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• Emacs 30.1 released
  

  emacs release
  

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• vcmi: Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
  

  games
  

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• The FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
  

  assembly
  

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• llm-commit: A plugin for llm that generates commit messages
  

  ai
  

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• War rooms vs. deep investigations
  

  debugging practices
  

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• Solving the JIT calculator challenge
  

  assembly compilers rust
  

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• Scrap Your ORM—Replace Your ORM With Relational Algebra
  

  video databases
  

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• OpenBSD: Innovations
  

  openbsd osdev
  

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• Open letter to browser and OS makers
  

  security web
  

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