The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Frankenstein’s `__init__`
  

  python
  

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• Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer
  

  performance zig
  

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• Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?
  

  graphics rust
  

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• Buried Toggles Begging to be Brought to Light
  

  linux
  

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• 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
  

  cryptography python
  

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• Vendoring
  

  practices programming
  

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• Neovim users: what AI tools are you using?
  

  ask ai editors vim
  

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• On Bloat
  

  slides go performance programming
  

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• Easter hack: terraform-provider-openwrt
  

  devops linux
  

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• Antithesis driven testing
  

  distributed testing
  

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• falsify: Hypothesis-inspired shrinking for Haskell
  

  haskell python testing
  

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• Lustre v5.0.0 released
  

  gleam web
  

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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 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• MITRE will stop issuing new CVEs
  

  security
  

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• go-away (another http proxy for LLM scraper defence)
  

  ai security web
  

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• Update on Spain and LaLiga blocks of the internet
  

  javascript law networking
  

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• Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids
  

  design
  

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• Mastodon Exit Interview
  

  distributed rant web
  

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• JSX Over The Wire
  

  web
  

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• When Life Gives You Java
  

  java practices programming
  

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• Cutting Down Rust Compile Times With One Thousand Crates
  

  rust
  

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• Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
  

  databases visualization
  

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• An Introduction to Modern CMake
  

  c++
  

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• Atomicless Concurrency (2023)
  

  assembly linux performance
  

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• Bug Bash 2025 Conference Experience
  

  distributed testing
  

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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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