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 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SQLite 3.53.0
  

  databases release
  

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• I Just Want Simple S3
  

  osdev scaling
  

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• A bet on whether ML-KEM-768 or X25519 will break first
  

  cryptography
  

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• 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
  

  freebsd
  

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• Advanced Mac Substitute
  

  retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• The difficulty of making sure your website is broken
  

  web
  

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• In defense of GitHub's poor uptime
  

  culture devops
  

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• Windows Defender is being used to hack Windows
  

  security windows
  

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• The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer
  

  compilers
  

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• Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• watgo - a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
  

  go wasm
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• immich vs ente photos - the photo backup showdown
  

  devops
  

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• EYG is now open source
  

  programming
  

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• ROCm 7.1.1: you can (not) build
  

  graphics linux
  

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• Don’t trust software, verify it
  

  practices security
  

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• Hold on to Your Hardware
  

  hardware rant
  

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• Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons from Tech Lead to CTO
  

  debugging performance practices python scaling testing web
  

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• Bigoish: Test the empirical computational complexity of Rust algorithms
  

  performance release rust
  

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• Building a Runtime with QuickJS
  

  c javascript
  

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• A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year
  

  devops
  

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• How I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64
  

  video games programming
  

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• ssereload(1) introduction
  

  lisp web
  

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• Ubuntu to adopt ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server
  

  linux rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
  

  email
  

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• What's your email setup?
  

  ask email
  

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• Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions
  

  netbsd
  

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• One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)
  

  historical scaling
  

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• Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format! and friends
  

  rust
  

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• Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
  

  mac
  

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• Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The largest number representable in 64 bits
  

  math plt
  

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• The Retro Web
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
  

  law privacy security
  

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• Plasma Effect
  

  graphics
  

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• Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility
  

  rust unix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What an unprocessed photo looks like
  

  graphics
  

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• Parsing Advances
  

  plt
  

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• LLMs Are Not Fun
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Second Great Error Model Convergence
  

  plt programming
  

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• My First Meshtastic Network
  

  hardware
  

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• You can make up HTML tags
  

  a11y web
  

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• Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody
  

  performance scaling
  

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• Garbage collection in Rust got a little better
  

  rust
  

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• Static Allocation with Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Huge binaries
  

  assembly
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Rust Errors Without Dependencies
  

  rust
  

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