1. Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet Lobste Comment

2. The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice Lobste Comment

3. Moonbit developers are lying to you Lobste Comment

4. Smalltalk and Lambda Calculus Lobste Comment

5. riffq is a Postgres wire protocol compatibility layer for Python Lobste Comment

6. Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape Lobste Comment

7. OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life Lobste Comment

8. Rating 26 years of Java changes Lobste Comment

9. tsink: Embedded time-series database for Rust Lobste Comment

10. Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition) Lobste Comment

11. DriftDB: An experimental append-only database with built-in time travel Lobste Comment

12. The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms Lobste Comment

13. tag2upload in the first month of Debian forky Lobste Comment

14. On the Security of SSH Client Signatures Lobste Comment

15. Gleam is my new obsession Lobste Comment

16. Writing an operating system kernel from scratch Lobste Comment

17. Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370 Lobste Comment

18. The Many Broken Feeds Lobste Comment

19. Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000 Lobste Comment

20. a few notes on ratelimiting Lobste Comment

21. bsd-user-4-linux project Lobste Comment

22. Redox Development Priorities for 2025/26 Lobste Comment

23. Pass: Unix Password Manager Lobste Comment

24. Normal-order syntax-rules and proving the fix-point of call/cc Lobste Comment

25. Text Files Complex Tools: A Minimalist Snippet Manager Lobste Comment

26. RIP pthread_cancel Lobste Comment

27. Learning to fuzz with LibAFL by solving puzzles Lobste Comment

28. A fast PHP toolchain written in Rust Lobste Comment

29. Tebako: cross-platform, self-contained executables Lobste Comment

30. Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution Lobste Comment

31. The Internet Coup Lobste Comment

32. Flow Control: a programmer''s text editor Lobste Comment

33. Link Graveyard: A snapshot of my abandoned browser tabs Lobste Comment

34. Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum Lobste Comment

35. My first CVE Lobste Comment

36. pgschema: Terraform-style, declarative schema migration for Postgres Lobste Comment

37. Safe C proposal is not being continued Lobste Comment

38. Weird CPU architectures: the MOV only CPU Lobste Comment

39. AI Coding Lobste Comment

40. Diesel 2.3.0 Lobste Comment

41. AFRICA’S DIGITAL RESET: What the continental internet exchange means for businesses and digital freedom – Business Insider Lobste Comment

42. Linux 6.17 Fix Lands To Address Regression With "Serious Breakage" In Hibernation Lobste Comment

43. Splitting a long string in lines using AVX2 Lobste Comment

44. DuckLake for busy engineering managers Lobste Comment

45. Delphi 13 Florence released Lobste Comment

46. Adding FRM parser utility to MariaDB Lobste Comment

47. Basics of Equality Saturation Lobste Comment

48. I Vibe Coded an R Package and it ... actually works?!? Lobste Comment

49. meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs Lobste Comment

50. UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design Lobste Comment

51. Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM Lobste Comment

52. Grimoire CSS - flexible utility class tool Lobste Comment

53. What Happens After I''m Gone? The Future of the Online Me Lobste Comment

54. From 19k to 4.2M events/sec: story of a SQLite query optimisation Lobste Comment

55. Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer Lobste Comment

56. Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers Lobste Comment

57. open-edison: An MCP Gateway to block Simon Willison''s Lethal Trifecta Lobste Comment

58. Phishing campaign targeting crates.io users Lobste Comment

59. Lobsters Interview with Susam Lobste Comment

60. oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer Lobste Comment

61. Fun Friday Question: What Easter Eggs have you Found or Made? Lobste Comment

62. Improving state machine code generation Lobste Comment

63. Classic GTK1 GUI Library for Windows, Linux and MacOS Lobste Comment

64. links glfmn.io Lobste Comment

65. Debian Upgrade Marathon: 3.1 Sarge Lobste Comment

66. The Evolution of Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: A Firsthand Account Lobste Comment

67. Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner''s Guide Lobste Comment

68. Really Simple Licensing Lobste Comment

69. Learning to use GoLand Lobste Comment

70. Emacs Wants You to Extend It: Sorting My Reading List Lobste Comment

71. FatNums: An Alternate Representation for School Arithmetic (2020) Lobste Comment

72. Program Inversions to Reorder Code (1977) Lobste Comment

73. VMScape: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments Lobste Comment

74. A positive lambda: ''[]{}'' Lobste Comment

75. Architecture by Fashion, Not Fundamentals Lobste Comment

76. Declarative music - 2 Minute Deep Acid in Strudel (from scratch) Lobste Comment

77. A Clojure view of "Mars Rover" Lobste Comment

78. httpjail: monitor and restrict HTTP/HTTPS requests from processes Lobste Comment

79. Jetzig Web Framework for Zig Lobste Comment

80. Kefir 0.5.0 Release Announcement (C17/C23 compiler) Lobste Comment

81. ANN: doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax highlighting, LSP and Alire support Lobste Comment

82. A New Case for Elixir Lobste Comment

83. Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Lobste Comment

84. Program verification is not all-or-nothing Lobste Comment

85. Semlib: LLM-powered Data Processing Lobste Comment

86. humanely dealing with humungus crawlers Lobste Comment

87. Introducing nanonext: breaking down language barriers in data science Lobste Comment

88. Racintosh Plus Lobste Comment

89. Network and Storage Benchmarks for LLM Training on the Cloud Lobste Comment

90. Behind The Scenes of Bun Install Lobste Comment

91. Why you should care about keeping your design files clean (2018) Lobste Comment

92. How the tz database works Lobste Comment

93. First-class merges and cover letters Lobste Comment

94. SlateDB: An embedded database built on object storage Lobste Comment

95. pgEdge goes Open Source Lobste Comment

96. [RFC] Ripple: An LLVM compiler-interpreted API to support SPMD and loop annotation programming for SIMD targets Lobste Comment

97. Read-only Guest tmux Sessions Lobste Comment

98. Stop Outsourcing Thinking Lobste Comment

99. Rust compiler performance survey 2025 results Lobste Comment

100. Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions Lobste Comment

101. From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson) Lobste Comment

102. OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community Lobste Comment

103. ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V) The Changelog Lobste Comment

104. KDE launches its own distribution (again) Lobste Comment

105. On the weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI Lobste Comment

106. Raku Lobste Comment

107. TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet Lobste Comment

108. What''s new in Kotlin 2.2.20 Lobste Comment

109. Performance Improvements in .NET 10 Lobste Comment

110. Flox, the Nix Foundation, and NVIDIA Partner for CUDA Lobste Comment

111. Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement Lobste Comment

112. The Origin Story of Merge Queues Lobste Comment

113. Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems Lobste Comment

114. Fenwick layout for interval trees Lobste Comment

115. JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview) Lobste Comment

116. Kerberoasting Lobste Comment

117. Effects as Capabilities in Scala Lobste Comment

118. Scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python Lobste Comment

119. LisaGUI Lobste Comment

120. Function Composition in Programming Languages - Conor Hoekstra - CppNorth 2023 Lobste Comment

121. Popular npm software packages hit in supply-chain attack Lobste Comment

122. A love letter to the CSV format (2024) Lobste Comment

123. Ten Years of D3D12 Lobste Comment

124. My Quarterly System Health Check-in Lobste Comment

125. The Weird OS Built Around a Database Lobste Comment

126. Embedding Poisoning: Bypassing Safety Alignment via Embedding Semantic Shift Lobste Comment

127. The Last Programmers Lobste Comment

128. All You Need Is SSH Lobste Comment

129. I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop Lobste Comment

130. The bloat of edge-case first libraries Lobste Comment

131. How to Prove False Statements: Practical Attacks on Fiat-Shamir Lobste Comment

132. Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices Lobste Comment

133. Testing the compiler optimizations your code relies on Lobste Comment

134. Analyzing the memory ordering models of the Apple M1 (2023) Lobste Comment

135. Formatting code should be unnecessary Lobste Comment

136. A new experimental Go API for JSON Lobste Comment

137. Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL Lobste Comment

138. Rich Already Answered That Lobste Comment

139. How I Made Ruby Faster than Ruby Lobste Comment

140. Apple Event for September 9th, 2025 Lobste Comment

141. Unauthorized Windows/386 Lobste Comment

142. Sandboxing Applications with Bubblewrap: A Simple Script (2024) Lobste Comment

143. The Boring Future of GenAI Lobste Comment

144. Writing a book in the age of open source Lobste Comment

145. How to Build Python Code with Bazel (and Why) Lobste Comment

146. Replacing SGX with GitHub Actions: Or how to turn GitHub Actions into a trusted computing oracle Lobste Comment

147. term.everything: Run any GUI app in the terminal Lobste Comment

148. Batched Critical Sections Lobste Comment

149. What I Learned Building My First Jenkins Plugin Lobste Comment

150. Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide Lobste Comment

151. A Novel Technique for SQL Injection in PDO’s Prepared Statements Lobste Comment

152. IO is special Lobste Comment

153. Can Collations Be Used Over citext? Lobste Comment

154. Introducing the MCP Registry Lobste Comment

155. i ran Claude in a loop for three months, and it created a genz programming language called cursed Lobste Comment

156. Compiling a functional language to LLVM Lobste Comment

157. Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG Lobste Comment

158. GSoC 2025 - Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR Lobste Comment

159. Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide Lobste Comment

160. The First ziglang.org Outage Lobste Comment

161. KeenWrite 3.6.3 Lobste Comment

162. Text format feature matrix Lobste Comment

163. Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains Lobste Comment

164. The CP-SAT Primer Lobste Comment

165. color npm package compromised Lobste Comment

166. Introducing Signal Secure Backups Lobste Comment

167. Tiny LLM - LLM Serving in a Week Lobste Comment

168. Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS Lobste Comment

169. Anatomy of a billion-download NPM supply-chain attack Lobste Comment

170. Fixing my gripes with GitHub using Gleam and a Raspberry Pi Lobste Comment

171. We will not accept changes created with the aid of "AI" Lobste Comment

172. Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS Lobste Comment

173. Package Managers are Evil - gingerBill Lobste Comment

174. Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs Lobste Comment

175. ''Make invalid states unrepresentable'' considered harmful Lobste Comment

176. Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto Lobste Comment

177. Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges (2021) Lobste Comment

178. Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables Lobste Comment

179. Deliberate Abstraction Lobste Comment

180. How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years DBOS Lobste Comment

181. Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD Lobste Comment

182. Ready prek go Lobste Comment

183. CSS Bed Lobste Comment

184. Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver Lobste Comment

185. Beyond Markdown (2018) Lobste Comment

186. Ever shared a Spotify link on the internet? Someone you don''t know can now message you Lobste Comment

187. Pico CSS • Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML Lobste Comment

188. Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors Lobste Comment

189. Nix SC member @tomberek works for Anduril Lobste Comment

190. Engineering excellence starts on edge Lobste Comment

191. Algebraic Effects in Practice with Flix Lobste Comment

192. Everything is a []u8 Lobste Comment

193. The Expression Problem and its solutions Lobste Comment

194. Do you have a personal wiki? Lobste Comment

195. Semantic Line Breaks Lobste Comment

196. Hitting Peak File IO Performance with Zig Lobste Comment

197. difdef: Utility to do an N-way diff and N-way merge, for N2 Lobste Comment

198. Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels Lobste Comment

199. Longhorn – a Kubernetes-native filesystem Lobste Comment

200. Resources, Laziness, and Continuation-Passing Style Lobste Comment

201. Emulating Rust''s Result and ? in Jai with Metaprogramming Lobste Comment

202. A Secret Web Lobste Comment

203. How can I help? Volunteer opportunities: Lobste.rs, OSS, programming, Internet related, other? Lobste Comment

204. The CoPilot productivity paradox Lobste Comment

205. C26: erroneous behaviour Lobste Comment

206. Don''t write bugs Lobste Comment

207. Debugging a dropped async Task Lobste Comment

208. Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time Lobste Comment

209. Local-first access control Lobste Comment

210. Choose Your Own Adventure Lobste Comment

211. Oldest recorded transaction Lobste Comment

212. Odin does have undefined behavior Lobste Comment

213. Formality on demand Lobste Comment

214. Wayland. (Budgie Desktop, 2023) Lobste Comment

215. 996 – There is cost to your lifestyle Lobste Comment

216. Patterns vs. "Patterns" Lobste Comment

217. The day Return became Enter Lobste Comment

218. Unexplanations: relational algebra is math (2024) Lobste Comment

219. Leptos Lobste Comment

220. Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure Lobste Comment

221. Natural transformations as a basis of control Lobste Comment

222. Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche Lobste Comment

223. X Design Notes: Unifying OCaml Modules and Values Lobste Comment

224. Basecamp Campfire is now open source Lobste Comment

225. ICFP contest 2025 Lobste Comment

226. EmbeddingGemma: Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings Lobste Comment

227. Ray Tracing in One Weekend Lobste Comment

228. Your mouse-free setups Lobste Comment

229. Use singular nouns for database table names Lobste Comment

230. stelvio: AWS for Python devs - made simple Lobste Comment

231. Lava RGB Lobste Comment

232. Capitalization of Initialisms (2009) Lobste Comment

233. NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping Lobste Comment

234. The state of fq_codel and sch_cake worldwide [2022] Lobste Comment

235. Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web Lobste Comment

236. Radicle 1.4.0 – Lily Lobste Comment

237. SQL needed structure Lobste Comment

238. Xmake v3.0.2 has been released, Improve C modules and new native thread support Lobste Comment

239. Type Checking is a Symptom, Not a Solution Lobste Comment

240. Dealing with cancel safety in async Rust Lobste Comment

241. If I hear "design pattern" one more time, I''ll go mad Lobste Comment

242. Opt-in Strict Memory Safety Checking in Swift 6.2 Lobste Comment

243. Fil''s Unbelievable Garbage Collector Lobste Comment

244. Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) Lobste Comment

245. Wolves in the Repository: A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack Lobste Comment

246. maak: The infinitely extensible command runner and automation project build system à la Make Lobste Comment

247. Let''s rename the "vibecoding" tag to "llms" Lobste Comment

248. Glamorous Toolkit: The Moldable Development Environment Lobste Comment

249. Subverting code integrity checks to locally backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and more Lobste Comment

250. Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice (2022) Lobste Comment

251. Classic 88-pixel B&W Mac patterns Lobste Comment

252. wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Build on Object Storage Lobste Comment

253. Integer Programming (2002) Lobste Comment

254. You Don''t Need Animations Lobste Comment

255. An embedded dev kit for EndBASIC with NetBSD Lobste Comment

256. Look Out For Bugs Lobste Comment

257. diff --stat for binary files Lobste Comment

258. A practical introduction to parsing in Rust Lobste Comment

259. Formally verifying FP division with Gappa Lobste Comment

260. The Programming-Lang of the Future Lobste Comment

261. Signals and Threads Why ML Needs a New Programming Language Lobste Comment

262. Strategically Holding Back Bugs and Patches Lobste Comment

263. A CA Trusted by Microsoft Mis-issued Certificates for 1.1.1.1 in May 2025, According to Logs Lobste Comment

264. jujutsu v0.33.0 released Lobste Comment

265. Ladybird Browser Update (August 2025) Lobste Comment

266. Route, Layer and Process Kafka Messages with Tansu Services Lobste Comment

267. Setting up cgit with Caddy v2 (2022) Lobste Comment

268. Faster Rust builds on Mac Lobste Comment

269. Old type-in BASIC games refactored and playable in-browser Lobste Comment

270. Welcoming the Rust Innovation Lab Lobste Comment

271. Linux Kernel SMB 0-Day Vulnerability CVE-2025-37899 Uncovered Using ChatGPT o3 Lobste Comment

272. Serious Shanns: Comic Sans for hackers Lobste Comment

273. How big are our embeddings now and why? Lobste Comment

274. Where''s the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don''t Add Up Lobste Comment

275. hledger v1.50 Lobste Comment

276. Git exclude, a handy feature you might not know about Lobste Comment

277. Building Terminal Applications With Elixir Lobste Comment

278. Slint 1.13 Released with Live-Preview for Rust and C Lobste Comment

279. Making a small Clippy lint Lobste Comment

280. The first Gleam Conference - Gathering 2026 Lobste Comment

281. BASIC-M6502: Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Lobste Comment

282. Your Biggest Customer Might Be Your Biggest Bottleneck Lobste Comment

283. How we made Kagi Assistant load twice as fast Lobste Comment

284. Abstract Machine Models Lobste Comment

285. Cookie Chaos: How to bypass __Host and __Secure cookie prefixes Lobste Comment

286. Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard Lobste Comment

287. The Anatomy of a Mach-O: Structure, Code Signing, and PAC Lobste Comment

288. Airbus B612 cockpit font Lobste Comment

289. Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python Lobste Comment

290. Things Kids Do (1975) Lobste Comment

291. Wild Performance Tricks David Lattimore Lobste Comment

292. Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) Lobste Comment

293. The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive Lobste Comment

294. ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback Lobste Comment

295. Search Index in 150 Lines of Haskell Lobste Comment

296. %CPU Utilization Is A Lie Lobste Comment

297. WheelNext & Wheel Variants: An update, and a request for feedback Lobste Comment

298. New gABI/ELF Spec Available for Public Review Lobste Comment

299. 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser Lobste Comment

300. Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust Lobste Comment