The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Frankenstein’s `__init__`
  

  python
  

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• Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer
  

  performance zig
  

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• Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?
  

  graphics rust
  

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• Buried Toggles Begging to be Brought to Light
  

  linux
  

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• 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
  

  cryptography python
  

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• Vendoring
  

  practices programming
  

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• Neovim users: what AI tools are you using?
  

  ask ai editors vim
  

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• On Bloat
  

  slides go performance programming
  

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• Easter hack: terraform-provider-openwrt
  

  devops linux
  

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• Antithesis driven testing
  

  distributed testing
  

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• falsify: Hypothesis-inspired shrinking for Haskell
  

  haskell python testing
  

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• Lustre v5.0.0 released
  

  gleam web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers
  

  browsers web
  

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• Unsure Calculator
  

  show math visualization
  

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• Arch Linux: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
  

  linux
  

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• deb-books: books hidden in Debian source packages
  

  art
  

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• tariff: The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again
  

  python satire
  

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• the lifecycle of a pull request
  

  vcs
  

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• TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days
  

  security web
  

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• Zig and GPUs
  

  graphics zig
  

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• (All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too
  

  databases
  

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• Getting better performance out of object storage
  

  distributed
  

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• Development On Apple Silicon with UTM
  

  mac virtualization
  

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• Learning Fennel from Scratch to Develop Neovim Plugins
  

  lisp vim
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gleam v1.10.0 released
  

  gleam release
  

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• I bought a Mac
  

  hardware mac retrocomputing
  

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• Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn @fieldParentPtr)
  

  zig
  

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• no-panic: Attribute macro to require that the compiler prove a function can't ever panic
  

  rust
  

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• A Visual Journey Through Async Rust
  

  rust visualization
  

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• We don’t need no virtualization
  

  virtualization
  

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• Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch?
  

  distributed web
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Torvalds Celebrates Git's 20th Anniversay. Is It More Famous Than Linux?
  

  vcs
  

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• Glicko Rating Systems
  

  games math
  

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• TrueSkill 2: An improved Bayesian skill rating system
  

  games math
  

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• Torn Write Detection and Protection
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
  

  c compilers python
  

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• Slopsquatting: Planting Malicious Packages Under Names AIs Will Hallucinate
  

  ai programming security
  

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• Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
  

  c compilers dotnet rust
  

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• Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
  

  linux
  

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• The 5 Levels of Configuration Languages
  

  plt
  

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• BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
  

  hardware
  

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• How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
  

  vcs
  

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• Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

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• My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league), is it even legal?
  

  law rant
  

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• Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI
  

  video hardware
  

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• wgpu v25.0.0 released
  

  graphics release rust
  

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• ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig
  

  games release zig
  

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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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