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

• Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
  

  c compilers python
  

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• Slopsquatting: Planting Malicious Packages Under Names AIs Will Hallucinate
  

  ai programming security
  

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• Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
  

  c compilers dotnet rust
  

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• Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
  

  linux
  

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• The 5 Levels of Configuration Languages
  

  plt
  

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• BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
  

  hardware
  

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• How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
  

  vcs
  

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• Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

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• My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league), is it even legal?
  

  law rant
  

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• Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI
  

  video hardware
  

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• wgpu v25.0.0 released
  

  graphics release rust
  

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• ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig
  

  games release zig
  

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

• “It’s not that bad” they told me - Coreboot
  

  hardware
  

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• Having Fun With a Scamming Crypto Job
  

  go security
  

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• Elliptical Python Programming
  

  satire
  

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• git-withme - Peer-to-peer, encrypted, ephemeral Git collaboration (git daemon with encryption)
  

  distributed python vcs
  

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• .localhost domains
  

  unix web
  

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• Lisp Programs Don't Have Parentheses
  

  lisp
  

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• Visualizing a Million Time Series with the Density Line Chart
  

  pdf visualization
  

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• Django: what’s new in 5.2
  

  python release web
  

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• what if the poison were rust?
  

  openbsd programming rust
  

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• Hardening the Firefox Frontend with Content Security Policies
  

  browsers security
  

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• The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
  

  games
  

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• How to Sync Anything
  

  distributed
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Llama 4 herd
  

  ai release
  

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• Ran out of infrastructure titles
  

  devops
  

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• Nix derivations by hand, without guessing
  

  nix
  

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• Done with GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks
  

  linux practices release
  

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• A short story of my programming language Easylang
  

  education programming wasm
  

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• Email over NNCP (via exim)
  

  release security
  

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• Tag proposal: ATProto
  

  meta
  

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• Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript
  

  web
  

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• The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (and may surprise you)
  

  devops security
  

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• How We Hacked a Software Supply Chain for $50K
  

  security
  

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• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  

  book programming
  

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• When should a compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
  

  compilers
  

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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 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Grepping logs remains terrible
  

  devops practices unix
  

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• AI ambivalence
  

  ai practices
  

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• new state of the art turing test: drawing a rubik's cube
  

  ai
  

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• How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
  

  ai
  

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• xan: The CSV magician
  

  rust visualization
  

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• jj-fzf: Text UI for Jujutsu based on fzf
  

  vcs
  

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• Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support
  

  networking osdev satire
  

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• Roguetype: The first ever roguelike written in the OCaml type system
  

  ml plt
  

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• chawan: TUI Web Browser
  

  browsers web
  

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• Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer
  

  vcs
  

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• Django 5.2 released
  

  python release web
  

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• The Most Amusing Security Flaws I've Discovered
  

  security
  

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