The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
  

  design historical unix
  

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• C++ to Rust Phrasebook
  

  c++ rust
  

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• My Backup Infrastructure, 2025 Edition
  

  practices
  

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• Improving EC2 boot time from 4s to 2.8s
  

  linux performance systemd
  

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• Simpler backoff
  

  go
  

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• Implementing a Forth
  

  concatenative
  

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• Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k
  

  performance
  

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• Decomplexification
  

  devops
  

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• PunchCard Key Backup
  

  show security
  

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• This website does not exist
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst
  

  a11y web
  

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• What is Racket DOING???
  

  debugging lisp
  

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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 February 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Making the Web More Readable With Stylus
  

  css
  

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• Why I'm Writing a Scheme Implementation in 2025 (The Answer is Async Rust)
  

  compilers lisp plt rust
  

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• This ESP32 antenna array can see WiFi
  

  video hardware
  

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• 14 years of systemd
  

  historical linux systemd
  

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• Can I ethically use LLMs?
  

  ai philosophy
  

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• When is OOP a More Useful Modelling Approach than Other Paradigms?
  

  ask programming
  

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• A transient feed aggregator built with Gleam
  

  gleam web
  

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• searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours
  

  databases
  

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• f8 - an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency
  

  video c compilers hardware
  

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• logis - an automatic scientific log in your git commit history
  

  show python science
  

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• Notes: AI Copilot Code Quality
  

  ai
  

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• Design/build of some elegant, fully parametric speaker cabinets
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gleam v1.8.0 released
  

  gleam release
  

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• You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
  

  law
  

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• CPython tail-call interpreter merged for Python 3.14, a 10% speedup in benchmarks
  

  performance python
  

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• Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud
  

  unix web
  

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• DOOM running on Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle
  

  video games ios
  

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• The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura
  

  plt
  

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• Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024
  

  rust
  

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• numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units
  

  science
  

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• FOSDEM 2025 - 14 Years of systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• OpenWrt 24.10.0 - First Stable Release
  

  networking release
  

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• AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
  

  ai security
  

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• A Closer Look At The Tanmatsu
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comic Mono
  

  editors
  

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• Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor
  

  vcs
  

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• Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
  

  hardware security
  

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• Git Trailers
  

  devops release vcs
  

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• Project MINI RACK - a Homelab Revolution
  

  video hardware networking
  

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• Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
  

  c databases
  

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• Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv
  

  python
  

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• Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
  

  security
  

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• How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
  

  math unix
  

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• Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
  

  graphics lisp wasm web
  

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• Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
  

  cogsci graphics
  

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• isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units
  

  linux python systemd
  

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