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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