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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Future is Niri
  

  linux
  

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• On The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon
  

  c security
  

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• rmk: Rust keyboard firmware library with layers, macros, real-time keymap editing, wireless(BLE) and split support
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Perspectives from the Technical University of Munich
  

  education
  

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• The DuckDB Local UI
  

  databases visualization web
  

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• (Re)writing an interpreter in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
  

  linux rust
  

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• A Perplexing Javascript Parsing Puzzle
  

  historical javascript
  

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• A small template engine for C
  

  c programming
  

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• The Art of Formatting Code
  

  programming
  

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• Representing type lattices compactly
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Dropping RISC-V support
  

  hardware linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter
  

  compilers performance
  

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• The Chromecast 2's device authentication certificate has expired
  

  android
  

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• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
  

  historical
  

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• An oral history of Bank Python (2021)
  

  historical practices python
  

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• Idiomatic Go
  

  go
  

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• On Apple Exclaves
  

  ios mac security
  

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• I built my first mechanical keyboard
  

  hardware
  

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• Why Go's Error Handling is Awesome
  

  go
  

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• Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
  

  rust
  

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• The text sizing protocol
  

  unix
  

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• Bringing WebKit back to Android
  

  android mobile web
  

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• AI and the Uncertain Future of Work
  

  ai
  

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