The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The age of snarky UI
  

  design rant
  

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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
  

  networking
  

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• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
  

  practices
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
  

  windows
  

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• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Let Sleeping CPUs Lie — S0ix
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Modern Common Lisp with FSet
  

  book lisp
  

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• Stop using JWTs
  

  security
  

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• Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero
  

  databases
  

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• Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  

  distributed
  

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• Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Installing every* Firefox extension
  

  browsers
  

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• Incremental compilation with LLVM
  

  zig
  

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• I made a productivity device for less than 50 bucks
  

  hardware
  

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• Favorite programmer website?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Why Aren't We uv Yet?
  

  python
  

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• Meet Kiki - an array language
  

  apl plt
  

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• Elastic tabstops (2006)
  

  practices
  

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• How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
  

  distributed formalmethods hardware testing
  

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• maki - the efficient coder (AI agent)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Wastrel milestone: full hoot support, with generational gc as a treat
  

  c compilers lisp wasm
  

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• Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
  

  linux security
  

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• Fixing AMDGPU's VRAM management for low-end GPUs
  

  graphics linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What are your programming "hunches" you haven't yet investigated?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design: All the industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
  

  hardware
  

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• The AI Great Leap Forward
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads
  

  c++
  

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• Let’s talk about LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• TIL that Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven
  

  editors
  

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• Open source security at Astral
  

  security
  

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• Applying "Programming Without Pointers" to an mbox indexer using Zig
  

  email zig
  

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• But what about K?
  

  apl c
  

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• Flatpak: Complete Sandbox Escape
  

  devops security
  

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• You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Last Quiet Thing
  

  hardware
  

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• Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
  

  hardware mac osdev
  

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• Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Blackholing My Email
  

  email historical
  

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• The Great Nix Flake Check
  

  nix
  

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• Nix security advisory: Privilege escalation via symlink following during FOD output registration
  

  nix security
  

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• Little Snitch for Linux
  

  linux release security
  

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• Under the hood of MDN's new frontend
  

  web
  

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• Plan 9 is a Uniquely Complete Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode
  

  hardware math
  

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• Borrow-checking surprises
  

  plt rust
  

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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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