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

• Migrating away from Rust
  

  dotnet games rust
  

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• Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• What the heck is AEAD again?
  

  cryptography programming
  

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• OpenBSD 7.7
  

  openbsd release
  

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• Giving software away for free
  

  python wasm web
  

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• A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
  

  ai
  

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• anticrawl
  

  web
  

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• Why performance optimization is hard work
  

  performance
  

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• Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
  

  windows
  

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• Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
  

  c++ programming
  

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• Packed Data support in Haskell
  

  haskell
  

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• Python sub-micro GPIO
  

  hardware performance python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• O(no) You Didn’t
  

  performance
  

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• Wanix :: Virtual environment kit for the local-first web, inspired by Plan 9
  

  osdev wasm
  

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• Another war story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
  

  debugging
  

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• Parallel ./configure
  

  unix
  

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• NNCP: Encrypted, authenticated, onion-routed version of UUCP
  

  networking
  

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• ATS3 Xanadu released
  

  ml release
  

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• GCC 15.1 Released
  

  compilers release
  

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• Differential Coverage for Debugging
  

  debugging go
  

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• The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (2018)
  

  historical osdev
  

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• /usr/share/units/definitions.units
  

  science
  

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• New Kind of Paper
  

  plt
  

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• Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
  

  apl
  

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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 March 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Take this on-call rotation and shove it
  

  devops practices
  

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• Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia
  

  mac
  

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• Open Letter to Meta: Support True Messaging Interoperability with XMPP
  

  law web
  

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• “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
  

  practices
  

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• Atom vs. RSS (2013)
  

  browsers web
  

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• Things that go wrong with disk IO
  

  databases linux
  

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• Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig
  

  go zig
  

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• Organic Maps: GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo
  

  web
  

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• Can jank beat Clojure's error reporting?
  

  c++ clojure compilers plt
  

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• Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Python
  

  python
  

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• SpecTec has been adopted
  

  plt wasm
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Google will now develop the Android OS in private
  

  android
  

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• How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
  

  practices
  

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• War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
  

  debugging
  

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• prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation
  

  show api unix
  

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• Fedora-based Linux distribution marking to EU public sector
  

  linux
  

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• Spade, a hardware description language inspired by modern software languages
  

  hardware plt
  

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• Tag Proposal: logicprogramming
  

  meta
  

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• You should know this before choosing Next.js
  

  security web
  

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• Piranesi’s Perspective Trick
  

  graphics
  

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• antirez wants to make Redis open source, again
  

  video databases
  

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• Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free
  

  release rust virtualization wasm
  

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• Pi Pico Rx - A crystal radio for the digital age?
  

  hardware
  

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