The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Things Zig comptime Won't Do
  

  plt zig
  

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• Beej's Guide to Git
  

  vcs
  

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• How I use Kate Editor
  

  editors
  

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• Ansible: pure (only in its) pragmatism
  

  linux
  

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• Efficient E-Matching for Super Optimizers
  

  math performance zig
  

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• The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2
  

  ai mobile security web
  

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• Common shell script mistakes
  

  programming
  

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• Revisiting an early critique of formal verification
  

  formalmethods historical
  

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• On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
  

  compsci philosophy practices
  

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• Common Expression Language
  

  plt programming
  

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• backdooms: A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code
  

  art games web
  

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• Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)
  

  c networking retrocomputing
  

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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 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 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Anubis works
  

  ai
  

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• Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
  

  historical
  

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• Emacs Lisp Elements
  

  emacs
  

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• Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025
  

  javascript
  

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• Nix Trigonometric Math Library from Ground Zero
  

  math nix
  

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• An E-Ink PDA device using the ESP32 S3
  

  hardware
  

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• Datastar - The hypermedia framework
  

  javascript web
  

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• RNG and Cosine in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• CORE-MATH: high performance open-source mathematical functions with correct rounding
  

  math
  

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• Mandatory short duration TLS certificates are probably coming soon
  

  security web
  

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• CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks
  

  ai security
  

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• Ship Software That Does Nothing
  

  practices web
  

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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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