The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Stop Writing `__init__` Methods
  

  python
  

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• Why I Cannot Be Technical
  

  culture
  

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• Reflections on Unikernels
  

  devops osdev
  

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• Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do
  

  linux security
  

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• Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before
  

  culture historical retrocomputing
  

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• Four Years of Jai
  

  plt
  

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• Ratatui - Are We Embedded Yet?
  

  show rust
  

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• Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5
  

  ai
  

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• Just Throw It Into Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
  

  mobile privacy
  

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• Is No PaaS really a good idea for Rails?
  

  devops ruby
  

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• traceboot: precise and lightweight tracing for boot and shell scripts
  

  show performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You cannot have our user's data
  

  rant
  

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• What the Hell Is a Target Triple?
  

  compilers
  

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• A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
  

  rust
  

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• Two Years of Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The Post-Developer Era
  

  ai
  

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• The Problem with “Vibe Coding”
  

  ai programming
  

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• git-remote-http is linked against incompatibly licensed OpenSSL
  

  law vcs
  

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• Arch Linux now has an official WSL image
  

  linux
  

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• Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
  

  ai programming
  

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• Flat origami is Turing complete
  

  math
  

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• AerynOS
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Tidbyt without the company
  

  hardware python
  

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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 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• FreeDOS 1.4 released
  

  osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Better typography with text-wrap pretty
  

  css design
  

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• Parser Combinators Beat Regexes
  

  haskell
  

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• rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
  

  mac
  

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• Emacs Startup Time Doesn’t Matter
  

  emacs
  

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• Go Zero Values
  

  go
  

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• Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
  

  programming
  

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• Beware when moving a std::optional (2023)
  

  c++
  

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• Every programming language needs its killer app to succeed
  

  programming
  

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• "Verified" "Compilation" of "Python" with Knuckledragger, GCC, and Ghidra
  

  assembly compilers formalmethods python reversing
  

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• MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
  

  ai ruby web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• More Contrast, Please
  

  web
  

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• The Best Programmers I Know
  

  programming
  

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• The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
  

  culture practices
  

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• My Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just Focus' Laptop
  

  freebsd
  

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• Writing C for curl
  

  c plt
  

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• Vector Sets are part of Redis
  

  databases
  

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• 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful
  

  vcs
  

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• Lux - a new package manager for Lua
  

  lua
  

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• Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
  

  ios mac
  

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• GoboLinux 017.01: the most experimental Linux's first new release in about 5Y
  

  linux osdev
  

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• MacLynx beta 6: back to the Power Mac
  

  mac retrocomputing
  

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• rauthy: OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management
  

  rust
  

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