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 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 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
  

  css graphics
  

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• The Steam Deck is Software-Freedom friendly
  

  philosophy
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.86.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Valkey - A new hash table
  

  databases performance
  

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• Graphite (Rusty FOSS procedural 2D design app) new feature demos from Q4
  

  design graphics rust
  

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• Introducing Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix
  

  nix release rust
  

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• Keeping the LHC colliding: Providing Extended Lifecycle support for EL7 (by moving to Debian)
  

  pdf slides linux
  

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• A Year of Rust in ClickHouse
  

  rust
  

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• Why we are still using 88x31 buttons
  

  historical web
  

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• The Fifth Kind of Optimisation
  

  performance
  

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• Train & Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi & E-Ink
  

  hardware programming
  

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• InitWare: systemd-like fork for BSDs
  

  netbsd systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Google will now develop the Android OS in private
  

  android
  

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• How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
  

  practices
  

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• War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
  

  debugging
  

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• prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation
  

  show api unix
  

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• Fedora-based Linux distribution marking to EU public sector
  

  linux
  

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• Spade, a hardware description language inspired by modern software languages
  

  hardware plt
  

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• Tag Proposal: logicprogramming
  

  meta
  

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• You should know this before choosing Next.js
  

  security web
  

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• Piranesi’s Perspective Trick
  

  graphics
  

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• antirez wants to make Redis open source, again
  

  video databases
  

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• Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free
  

  release rust virtualization wasm
  

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• Pi Pico Rx - A crystal radio for the digital age?
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Post Apocalyptic Computing
  

  linux
  

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• Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes
  

  compilers javascript
  

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• A Debugger is a REPL is a Debugger
  

  debugging
  

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• Database Protocols Are Underwhelming
  

  databases performance
  

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• Better Shell History Search
  

  unix
  

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• The next generation of Bazel builds
  

  programming
  

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• Non-Obvious Haskell Idiom: Conditional For
  

  haskell
  

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• LLMs on a PowerPC Mac
  

  ai mac
  

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• Triforce: a microphone array beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops
  

  linux mac rust
  

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• The Prospero Challenge
  

  compilers graphics performance plt
  

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• Closing the chapter on OpenH264
  

  linux
  

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• Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders
  

  css
  

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