The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Yojam: a macOS default-browser shim that routes URLs through a rule engine
  

  mac release
  

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• Hello old new “Projects” directory
  

  linux programming
  

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• waves & particles
  

  art
  

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• When compilers surprise you
  

  compilers
  

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• The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
  

  hardware historical science
  

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• Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)
  

  historical
  

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• How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
  

  debugging go
  

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• Lenses in Rust and My Solution
  

  plt rust
  

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• Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-hosted Object Storage
  

  scaling
  

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• The Secret Life of Circuits
  

  hardware
  

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• Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
  

  c performance ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
  

  compsci programming
  

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• I don't care that it's X times faster
  

  performance rant
  

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• Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
  

  compilers
  

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• Things you didn't know about indexes
  

  databases
  

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• Saying Goodbye to Agile
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
  

  law
  

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• The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
  

  web
  

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• Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
  

  security
  

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• Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
  

  c
  

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• My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs
  

  programming
  

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• SDL3 - Add DOS platform support
  

  c games programming retrocomputing
  

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• TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups
  

  release ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• your hex editor should color-code bytes
  

  design editors practices
  

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• Reading leaked Claude Code source code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS or BS?
  

  css
  

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• The Self-Cancelling Subscription
  

  debugging
  

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• Gaim 3 Exists
  

  release
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1 2.95.0 has been released
  

  release
  

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• The Subprime Technical Debt Crisis
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Linear types proposal for Hare
  

  plt
  

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• After 40 years, arbitrary code execution has been achieved in Super Mario Bros
  

  video reversing
  

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• I Made a Keyboard Nobody Asked For: My Experience Making TapType
  

  a11y android mobile
  

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• RubyGems Fracture Incident Report
  

  ruby
  

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• February in Servo: faster layout, pause and resume scripts, and more
  

  browsers rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ghostty 1.3.0
  

  release
  

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• Production query plans without production data
  

  databases performance
  

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• Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Returning To Rails in 2026
  

  programming ruby web
  

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• z80-sans: OpenType font that disassembles Z80 instructions
  

  assembly
  

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• GNU and the AI reimplementations
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• WebPKI and You
  

  security
  

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• Why octal notation should be used for UTF-8 (and Unicode) (2016)
  

  programming
  

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• Blocking HTTP1.1
  

  networking
  

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• We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Video Conferencing with Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
  

  hardware mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Claude's Cycles
  

  pdf compsci vibecoding
  

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• Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward
  

  ruby
  

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• Rust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD
  

  performance rust
  

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• Hoot 0.8.0 released! - Scheme in WASM
  

  lisp release wasm
  

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• jj v0.39.0 released
  

  vcs
  

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• Never snooze a future
  

  rust
  

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• yj_nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you
  

  android privacy
  

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• Proposal: Add `Guix` tag
  

  meta
  

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• An Interactive Intro to CRDTs
  

  distributed programming
  

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• When AI Writes the World's Software, Who Verifies It?
  

  formalmethods logiclangs vibecoding
  

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• Au revoir, Eleventy
  

  javascript web
  

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• Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”
  

  python security
  

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