The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Niri v26.04
  

  linux release rust
  

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• From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup
  

  hardware
  

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• Wasm is not quite a stack machine
  

  plt wasm
  

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• Email is crazy
  

  email networking security
  

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• HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
  

  freebsd vcs
  

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• "Why not just use Lean?"
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy, 2000)
  

  philosophy
  

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• (Cryptographic) Registries Considered Harmful (2020)
  

  cryptography
  

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• httpxyz one month in
  

  python
  

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• The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
  

  games performance programming
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• HTML written only using the C preprocessor
  

  c
  

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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 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• unnix: Reproducible Nix environments without installing Nix
  

  nix
  

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• Easters - an adventofcode-like challenge for easter
  

  show event games programming
  

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• DPI bypass using eBPF sock_ops and fake TLS ClientHello injection
  

  c linux networking security
  

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• Mvidia: A game where you build a GPU
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Parsing AsciiDoc in Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Packaging and Init Systems
  

  linux rant
  

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• Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector
  

  linux practices
  

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• Components of A Coding Agent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Accumulated Test Vectors
  

  cryptography testing
  

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• Growing Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with Ash
  

  elixir web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version
  

  go nix
  

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• Value numbering
  

  compilers
  

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• A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Roogle: A Rust API search engine
  

  rust
  

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• The Feature That Has Never Worked · A broken auto-live poller, and what perceived urgency does to Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Sam text editor tips
  

  editors
  

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• Why Lean?
  

  plt
  

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• Making Gamedev Tooling For Windows 3.1 in Turbo C++
  

  video games programming retrocomputing
  

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• Absurd In Production
  

  databases vibecoding
  

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• neomd: A minimal email TUI where you read with Markdown and write in Neovim
  

  email vibecoding vim
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I used AI. It worked. I hated it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Slap: Functional Concatenative Language... with a Borrow Checker?
  

  concatenative plt
  

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• Adobe wrote to my hosts file
  

  design
  

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• SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
  

  linux
  

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• landdown - Simple sandboxing for shell scripts
  

  show linux
  

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• Lisette — Rust syntax, Go runtime
  

  go plt rust
  

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• Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark
  

  lisp performance
  

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• Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Activating Two Trap Cards at Once, or: A Gentle Response to the Popularity of Vibecoding
  

  ai math plt python vibecoding
  

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• Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Gentoo GNU/Hurd
  

  unix
  

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• Euro-Office, ONLYOFFICE, and their licensing dispute
  

  law
  

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