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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How a glitch in an online survey replaced the word ‘yes’ with ‘forks’
  

  debugging web
  

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• Crabtime: Zig's Comptime in Rust
  

  rust zig
  

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• Chunking attacks on Tarsnap (and others)
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
  

  security
  

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• Haiku loves Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver)
  

  graphics osdev
  

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• tmp.0ut Volume 4
  

  linux reversing
  

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• When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via ssh
  

  linux
  

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• The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6 (episode 1)
  

  networking
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The right way to do data fixtures in Go
  

  go testing
  

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• Don't Be Afraid Of Types
  

  plt programming
  

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• C++/Rust Interoperability Problem Statement
  

  c++ plt rust
  

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

• No Longer My Favorite Git Commit
  

  practices programming
  

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• Comptime Zig ORM
  

  zig
  

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• Introducing two new PebbleOS watches
  

  release
  

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• How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025
  

  performance rust
  

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• Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
  

  graphics linux
  

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• Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• In Search of the Next Great Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• GNOME 48 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Failing upwards: the Twitter encrypted DM failure
  

  cryptography security
  

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• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
  

  satire
  

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• Copyright and the demoscene
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Announcing Fedora Linux 42 Beta
  

  linux release
  

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

• Mitigating SourceHut's partial outage caused by aggressive crawlers
  

  ai
  

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• Why we ditched Next.js and never looked back
  

  javascript
  

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• Announcing Snix
  

  nix
  

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• HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
  

  web
  

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• I built myself a watch
  

  hardware
  

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• Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri
  

  vcs
  

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• The Rhombus Programming Language
  

  lisp plt
  

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• Dioxus | Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust
  

  programming rust
  

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• Zest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems
  

  compilers plt zig
  

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• What’s the best git tutorial?
  

  ask vcs
  

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• A 6502 emulator written in busybox ash
  

  linux reversing
  

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• From Languages to Language Sets
  

  plt
  

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