1. Birth of Prettier Lobste Comment

2. nanopb: Protocol Buffers with small code size Lobste Comment

3. fibonacci-numbers crate Lobste Comment

4. This Month in Redox - September 2025 Lobste Comment

5. WebGPU and the price of compiling WGSL Lobste Comment

6. Servo GTK Lobste Comment

7. Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021) Lobste Comment

8. A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails SQLite production table Lobste Comment

9. I''m Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers Lobste Comment

10. OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework Lobste Comment

11. Saving My Commit With jj evolog Lobste Comment

12. TinqerJS – LINQ Inspired ORM for TypeScript Supporting Postgres, SQLite Lobste Comment

13. buffalo::buffalo::buffalo Lobste Comment

14. Why you should be using pathlib (2018) Lobste Comment

15. I brain coded a static image gallery in a few hours Lobste Comment

16. What are PolyForm licenses? Lobste Comment

17. nfc-laboratory: NFC signal and protocol analyzer using SDR receiver Lobste Comment

18. nmail: Terminal-based email client for Linux and macOS Lobste Comment

19. Introduction to AT Protocol Lobste Comment

20. Obelisk 0.25.4 and handling of WASM traps Lobste Comment

21. AI and Home-Cooked Software Lobste Comment

22. My First Contribution to Linux Lobste Comment

23. What are you doing this week? Lobste Comment

24. A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset Lobste Comment

25. Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? Lobste Comment

26. Django: one ORM to rule all databases Lobste Comment

27. The QNX Operating System Lobste Comment

28. gem.coop Lobste Comment

29. Simple automated deployments using git push (2024) Lobste Comment

30. The Server in the Closet Lobste Comment

31. NIRS fire destroys [South Korean] government''s cloud storage system, no backups available Lobste Comment

32. Premature Generalization Lobste Comment

33. cargo-subspace: Make rust-analyzer work better with very large cargo workspaces Lobste Comment

34. Packing The World For Longest Lines Of Sight Lobste Comment

35. How and why EasyOS is different Lobste Comment

36. valuetier.org (and some thoughts on LLMs) Lobste Comment

37. How to Discover the Binary System as a Child - Simon Peyton-Jones Lobste Comment

38. The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is littered with var statements Lobste Comment

39. TESID: Textualised Encrypted Sequential Identifiers Lobste Comment

40. UUIDv47 v4 privacy v7 performance Lobste Comment

41. Announcing GoboLinux 017.01 - Passing the Torch Lobste Comment

42. Exit the Feed: The Best Coders Should Walk Away Lobste Comment

43. Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come Lobste Comment

44. Conventional Commits considered harmful Lobste Comment

45. The Case for Learned Index Structures Lobste Comment

46. RacketCon - Day 2 - Livestream Lobste Comment

47. 86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread) Lobste Comment

48. Attack paths for exfiltrating data using 1Password CLI Lobste Comment

49. Wherever you get your Podcasts Lobste Comment

50. Hobby Hilbert Simplex Lobste Comment

51. Adding Stride Scheduling to xv6 Lobste Comment

52. Unlocking Modern CPU Power - Next-Gen C Optimization Techniques (2024) Lobste Comment

53. Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System Lobste Comment

54. File Format Gallery for Kaitai Struct Lobste Comment

55. What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers Lobste Comment

56. Threads without Locks (2007) Lobste Comment

57. mesh-spreadsheet: data & code editor Lobste Comment

58. Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App Lobste Comment

59. Achieving period-correct graphics in personal computer emulators - Part 1: The Amiga Lobste Comment

60. My DjangoCon US 2025 Lobste Comment

61. Cuckoo hashing improves SIMD hash tables Lobste Comment

62. Native iOS SwiftUI client for Actual Budget Lobste Comment

63. Self-Hosting Email Like It’s 1984 Lobste Comment

64. Retiring test-ipv6.com Lobste Comment

65. A Mac-like experience on Linux Lobste Comment

66. Pivot hell and letting go: Why i stopped building my first app and moved on Lobste Comment

67. Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad Lobste Comment

68. Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model Lobste Comment

69. lolremez: Polynomial Approximations using the Remez Algorithm Lobste Comment

70. Stone Tools: Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era Lobste Comment

71. Delimited continuations in lone lisp Lobste Comment

72. Game Development: History, Industry, and Engine Design Lobste Comment

73. Getting better at software engineering Lobste Comment

74. OSWALD - Object Storage Write-Ahead Log Device Lobste Comment

75. Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner Lobste Comment

76. Paged Out! Issue #7 Lobste Comment

77. ZLUDA: CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPUs Lobste Comment

78. You can''t parse XML with regex. Let''s do it anyways Lobste Comment

79. Optique 0.6.0: Shell completion support for type-safe CLI parsers Lobste Comment

80. Don''t Parse, Call Lobste Comment

81. How We''re Redesigning Audacity For The Future Lobste Comment

82. UTF-8, explained simply - Nic Barker Lobste Comment

83. Zig Builds Are Getting Faster Lobste Comment

84. PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports peps.python.org Lobste Comment

85. Alibaba cloud FPGA: the 200 Kintex UltraScale Lobste Comment

86. The end of tt-rss.org Lobste Comment

87. Modernizing GNOME Lobste Comment

88. fssimu2: Fast SSIMULACRA2 implementation in Zig Lobste Comment

89. One Year of PostgreSQL Hacking Workshops Lobste Comment

90. PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports Lobste Comment

91. WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home Lobste Comment

92. Procedural Generation with Wave Function Collapse Lobste Comment

93. Programming in Assembly without an Operating System Lobste Comment

94. Pointer leaks through pointer-keyed data structures Lobste Comment

95. Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans - Phoronix Lobste Comment

96. The jank community has stepped up Lobste Comment

97. Cancelling async Rust Lobste Comment

98. Atuin desktop: Runbooks that run Lobste Comment

99. Hey Siri. Block Reddit Lobste Comment

100. Fundraising campaign to sustain GNU Guix Lobste Comment

101. Beginner-friendly issues across all repositories Lobste Comment

102. What on Earth Does Pointer Provenance Have to do With RCU? Lobste Comment

103. A threat model for accessibility on the web Lobste Comment

104. CVE-2025-59489: Arbitrary Code Execution in Unity Runtime Lobste Comment

105. We Bought the Whole GPU, So We''re Damn Well Going to Use the Whole GPU Lobste Comment

106. What are you doing this weekend? Lobste Comment

107. CI/CD components to generate and verify provenance attestation Lobste Comment

108. New Control Structures In APL? (1982) Lobste Comment

109. How would you approach a browser automation project? Lobste Comment

110. Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (2010) Lobste Comment

111. C26: std::optional Lobste Comment

112. Domain Driven Design in Clojure with generalized Hiccup Lobste Comment

113. Measuring Reorder Buffer Capacity Lobste Comment

114. Dropping upstream Nix from Determinate Nix Installer Lobste Comment

115. Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets Lobste Comment

116. ZLUDA update Q3 2025 – ZLUDA 5 is here Lobste Comment

117. A neural network written completely in jq (2017) Lobste Comment

118. A public record of questions for Ruby Central Lobste Comment

119. Shelby: Decentralized hot storage protocol competitive with AWS S3 performance Lobste Comment

120. Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? (2022) Lobste Comment

121. Where It''s at:// Lobste Comment

122. Risk Rolls Downhill Lobste Comment

123. Litestream v0.5.0 is Here Lobste Comment

124. Wombat’s Book of Nix Lobste Comment

125. Terminating elegantly: a guide to graceful shutdowns Lobste Comment

126. Nine HTTP Edge Cases Lobste Comment

127. datafusion-postgres: postgres protocol adapter for datafusion query engine Lobste Comment

128. An Empirical Evaluation of Property-Based Testing in Python Lobste Comment

129. Custom Carets and Users Lobste Comment

130. Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4 Lobste Comment

131. I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy Lobste Comment

132. Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did Lobste Comment

133. A Tutorial for the Sam Command Language Lobste Comment

134. “We Have No Idea How Models will Behave in Production until Production”: ML Ops Study [2024] Lobste Comment

135. [RFC] LLVM AI tool policy: start small, no slop Lobste Comment

136. The biggest semantic mess in Futhark Lobste Comment

137. Primitive overloading Lobste Comment

138. jujutsu v0.34.0 released Lobste Comment

139. Immich v2.0.0 - Stable Release Lobste Comment

140. IP Over Lasers Lobste Comment

141. Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust CGI Lobste Comment

142. We tried Go''s experimental Green Tea garbage collector and it didn''t help performance Lobste Comment

143. is tech inevitable Lobste Comment

144. Who''s Hiring? Q4 2025 Lobste Comment

145. Stop Trusting Nix Caches Lobste Comment

146. Kubernetes features stage changes in a visual way Lobste Comment

147. As a Gopher I''m excited about Gleam, maybe you''ll be too Lobste Comment

148. Gernot''s List of Systems Benchmarking Crimes Lobste Comment

149. Nix Steering Committee vote of no confidence Lobste Comment

150. F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future Lobste Comment

151. Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the world Lobste Comment

152. Register allocation in the Go compiler [2024] Lobste Comment

153. Our efforts, in part, define us Lobste Comment

154. What’s the difference between files and directories in a Unix-like filesystem? Lobste Comment

155. Category Theory Illustrated - Natural transformations Lobste Comment

156. What was the longest time you ever took to return to a software project? Lobste Comment

157. Programs/utilities (especially small ones) with funny/crude acronyms for their name? Lobste Comment

158. Generate HTML conveniently and efficiently with Python generators Lobste Comment

159. Built-in Mapping for More Powerful, Intuitive Code Lobste Comment

160. RubyGems stewardship: Where we are, what’s changing and how we’ll engage Lobste Comment

161. Diff Algorithms Lobste Comment

162. Bevy 0.17 Lobste Comment

163. 3 critical TTL patterns for in-memory caching Lobste Comment

164. Systems Programming with Zig Lobste Comment

165. Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” Lobste Comment

166. Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser Lobste Comment

167. Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.5.9 Lobste Comment

168. Shellshock (2014, 2025) Lobste Comment

169. city2graph Lobste Comment

170. Behind y-s2: serverless multiplayer rooms Lobste Comment

171. How to write a complete GNOME application in Lua Lobste Comment

172. More speculations on arenas in C Lobste Comment

173. Designing agentic loops Lobste Comment

174. Investigating and fixing "StopPodSandbox from runtime service failed" Kubelet errors Lobste Comment

175. deml: The Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language Lobste Comment

176. Custom LNAddress with Self-Hosted AlbyHub Lobste Comment

177. The Software Essays that Shaped Me Lobste Comment

178. Live-Streams from All Systems Go! 2025 Lobste Comment

179. Prototype-First Software Design With Agents Lobste Comment

180. Radicle 1.5.0 – Hibiscus Lobste Comment

181. Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink and roll paper support Lobste Comment

182. The expression problem and Rust Lobste Comment

183. Go proposal: Hashers Lobste Comment

184. Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code Lobste Comment

185. Sguaba: Type-safe spatial math in Rust Lobste Comment

186. Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel Lobste Comment

187. Brownian motion: Modeling random fields over arbitrary geometries Lobste Comment

188. Matrix Derivation Lobste Comment

189. we move as 1 Lobste Comment

190. MAML - a new configuration language (similar to JSON, YAML, and TOML) Lobste Comment

191. Pidgin 3.0 Experiemental 4 (2.93.0) has been released Lobste Comment

192. Subtext Retrospective Lobste Comment

193. Safe zero-copy operations in C# Lobste Comment

194. How much do you really know about media queries? Lobste Comment

195. io_uring is not an event system (2021) Lobste Comment

196. Introducing tdom: HTML templating with t‑strings Lobste Comment

197. Heuristic: Ors Are Expensive Lobste Comment

198. The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop) Lobste Comment

199. std::flip Lobste Comment

200. Non-consensual technology Lobste Comment

201. Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 Lobste Comment

202. We built our coding agent for Slack instead of the terminal Lobste Comment

203. Adding a new instruction to RISC-V backend in LLVM Lobste Comment

204. Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time? Lobste Comment

205. Subtleties of SQLite Indexes Lobste Comment

206. UNIX99: UNIX for the TI-99/4A Lobste Comment

207. Upgrading Our Way Through OpenGL 1.x Lobste Comment

208. Announcing Software You Can Love 2026 Lobste Comment

209. LLM Inference Economics from First Principles Lobste Comment

210. Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity Lobste Comment

211. My (concurrency) Wishlist for Xcode 27 Lobste Comment

212. What''s New in PostgreSQL 18 - a Developer''s Perspective Lobste Comment

213. Go Proposal: architecture-specific SIMD intrinsics Lobste Comment

214. dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and Postgresql Lobste Comment

215. AI is writing 90% of the code Lobste Comment

216. Spent an hour or so working with claude to write a minimal static web server in COBOL Lobste Comment

217. Does AI Get Bored? Lobste Comment

218. Data on AI Models Lobste Comment

219. Perhaps AI-based autocomplete optimizes for the wrong problem Lobste Comment

220. F-Droid and Google''s Developer Registration Decree Lobste Comment

221. Comparing Rust to Carbon Lobste Comment

222. Slop Machines: on the interaction between feed recommender systems and genai Lobste Comment

223. Just Let Me Select Text Lobste Comment

224. In C modules globally unique module names seem to be unavoidable Lobste Comment

225. RISC-V Conditional Moves Lobste Comment

226. stupid jj tricks Lobste Comment

227. Supply chain security for the 0.001% (and why it won’t catch on) Lobste Comment

228. J-Link Compact USB-C Issues Lobste Comment

229. Tag suggestion: plan9 Lobste Comment

230. NES Super Mario Bros. "arbitrary code execution" Lobste Comment

231. Testing "exotic" p2p VPN Lobste Comment

232. Why I''m not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco Lobste Comment

233. What is "good taste" in software engineering? Lobste Comment

234. Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again Lobste Comment

235. scm2wasm: A Scheme to WASM compiler in 600 lines of C, making use of WASM GC Lobste Comment

236. The death of utilitarian programming Lobste Comment

237. The golden ratio as a number base Lobste Comment

238. When I say "alphabetical order", I mean "alphabetical order" Lobste Comment

239. 2025 is a bumper year for acorns, so help the trees: gather as many as you can & throw them into scrub & wasteland Lobste Comment

240. Detaching GraalVM from the Java Ecosystem Train Lobste Comment

241. Is IP fragmentation still considered vulnerable? Lobste Comment

242. Small Data Lobste Comment

243. Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds Lobste Comment

244. Offline translator for Android Lobste Comment

245. Urgency vs importance Lobste Comment

246. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here Lobste Comment

247. seL4 2025 Playlist Lobste Comment

248. Linus Torvalds and the Supposedly “Garbage Code” Lobste Comment

249. The Unite Real Time Operating System Lobste Comment

250. A statement from members of the NixOS moderation team Lobste Comment

251. How I Accidentally Created the Fastest CSV Parser Ever Made Lobste Comment

252. go-landlock: A Go library for the Linux Landlock sandboxing feature Lobste Comment

253. First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That''s Stealing Your Emails Lobste Comment

254. Code Mode: the better way to use MCP Lobste Comment

255. The Case for Hybrid Cache for Object Stores Lobste Comment

256. Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production Lobste Comment

257. Building a Serverless WASM AI Runtime in Rust Lobste Comment

258. Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity Lobste Comment

259. Checkboxes that kill your product (2013) Lobste Comment

260. LIVE 2025: live talks about live programming Lobste Comment

261. Meshtastic 64 - A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64 Lobste Comment

262. HSBC publishes yet another claim of quantum advantage that isn’t Lobste Comment

263. Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement Lobste Comment

264. Go''s builtin ''new()'' function will take an expression in Go 1.26 Lobste Comment

265. Property-Based Testing of OCaml 5’s Runtime System Lobste Comment

266. Fun Friday Question: What''s the Best Way you''ve Broken Prod? Lobste Comment

267. Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing Lobste Comment

268. The File System Belongs in the Kernel (1991) Lobste Comment

269. Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 Lobste Comment

270. Open Social Lobste Comment

271. Redis is fast - I''ll cache in Postgres Lobste Comment

272. Informed poll Lobste Comment

273. a GNOME developer now homeless in Nashville USA, needs place to stay Lobste Comment

274. Process Tracing Projects Lobste Comment

275. Handling Negative Feedback Lobste Comment

276. Turning Billions of Strings into Integers Every Second Without Collisions Lobste Comment

277. Dotfiles with make Lobste Comment

278. What happens when hackathon judging is a public benchmark (Hack the North edition) Lobste Comment

279. New PopOS beta shipped with Cosmis DE Lobste Comment

280. It is actually surprising that Earley can efficiently parse C, ambiguities and all Lobste Comment

281. The PGM-index Lobste Comment

282. Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator Lobste Comment

283. Identity Types Lobste Comment

284. Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust Lobste Comment

285. A workaround for using custom properties in media queries Lobste Comment

286. Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr Lobste Comment

287. Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel Lobste Comment

288. Starless: How we accidentally vanished our most popular GitHub repos Lobste Comment

289. Investigating a Forged PDF Lobste Comment

290. Tracing JITs in the real world @ CPython Core Dev Sprint Lobste Comment

291. A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types Lobste Comment

292. PostgreSQL 18 Released Lobste Comment

293. This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG Lobste Comment

294. Announcing "do" v2.0 - Dependency injection for Go Lobste Comment

295. Ceiling division and mip map sizes Lobste Comment

296. What are popular AI coding benchmarks actually measuring? Lobste Comment

297. Introducing Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) Lobste Comment

298. An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community Lobste Comment

299. Thoughts on Cloudflare Lobste Comment

300. Bundler belongs to the Ruby community Lobste Comment