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

• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
  

  ai design rant
  

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• Default styles for h1 elements are changing
  

  browsers css web
  

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• Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing…
  

  distributed erlang testing
  

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• The YAML Exponent Problem causing chaos in your config files
  

  education
  

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• Generative AI in Servo
  

  practices
  

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• 6 usability improvements in GCC 15
  

  compilers
  

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• cargo-mutants: :zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them
  

  rust
  

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• The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
  

  ai security
  

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• BTrees, Inverted Indices, and a Model for Full Text Search
  

  databases practices rust
  

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• The Y Combinator Explained in Python
  

  plt python
  

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• Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway?
  

  rust
  

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• Usb-C and its overengineered history
  

  video hardware historical
  

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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 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Annotated Unix Magic Poster
  

  historical unix
  

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• The Best Refactoring You've Never Heard Of
  

  programming
  

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• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort & Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  

  pdf ai
  

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• 8-pin Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation
  

  plt
  

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• BPF From Scratch In Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly
  

  compilers ml plt
  

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• A Simple Reply
  

  compilers
  

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• Investigating MacPaint's Source Code
  

  historical mac
  

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• Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering
  

  slides video compilers ml performance
  

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• Atproto Ethos
  

  api distributed web
  

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• JIT calculators finale
  

  assembly compilers rust
  

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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 April 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
  

  historical
  

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• Who's Hiring? Q2 2025
  

  job
  

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• 9front “THE FRONT END OF TOMORROW” released
  

  art
  

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• Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader
  

  web
  

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• How I Spent Saturday Recovering A Passkey Or Why Open-Source Software Matters
  

  security
  

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• A love letter to the CSV format
  

  compsci
  

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• Rockbox 4.0 released
  

  release
  

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• The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
  

  css web
  

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• Ekapkgs, a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs
  

  nix
  

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• Why F#?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 2 (2.91.0) has been released
  

  release
  

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