1. How to make people feel stupid (2008) Lobste Comment

2. Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching? Lobste Comment

3. 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python Lobste Comment

4. Revisiting an early critique of formal verification Lobste Comment

5. Neovim users: what AI tools are you using? Lobste Comment

6. Antithesis driven testing Lobste Comment

7. Sneak peek: A new ASN.1 API for Python Lobste Comment

8. Common shell script mistakes Lobste Comment

9. Easter hack: terraform-provider-openwrt Lobste Comment

10. Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Lobste Comment

11. Microsecond transforms: Building a fast sandbox for user code Lobste Comment

12. Four Years of Jai Lobste Comment

13. musializer: Music Visualizer Lobste Comment

14. Awesome Consensus: A survey of recent byzantine fault tolerance algorithms Lobste Comment

15. Vibing code quality Lobste Comment

16. Ratatui - Are We Embedded Yet? Lobste Comment

17. Exacerbating Cross-Site Scripting: The Iframe Sandwich Lobste Comment

18. Why I Cannot Be Technical Lobste Comment

19. olive.c: Simple 2D Graphics Library for C Lobste Comment

20. Lockless Programming Considerations for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows (2012) Lobste Comment

21. Software Development Has Too Much Software In It Lobste Comment

22. Using /.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do Lobste Comment

23. Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before Lobste Comment

24. The Size of Packets Lobste Comment

25. Stop Writing __init__ Methods Lobste Comment

26. Reflections on Unikernels Lobste Comment

27. Decomposing Transactional Systems Lobste Comment

28. anticrawl - another AI crawler defence Lobste Comment

29. Zig and GPUs Lobste Comment

30. Introducing Policy Servers for Matrix Lobste Comment

31. Just Throw It Into Postgres Lobste Comment

32. Matrix Calculus for Machine Learning and Beyond Lobste Comment

33. How to create and use program libraries on Linux (2003) Lobste Comment

34. HDR‑Infused Emoji Lobste Comment

35. Serbian student activist’s phone hacked using Cellebrite zero-day exploit Lobste Comment

36. Is No PaaS really a good idea for Rails? Lobste Comment

37. iOS 18.4 - dlsym considered harmful Lobste Comment

38. traceboot: precise and lightweight tracing for boot and shell scripts Lobste Comment

39. Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct Lobste Comment

40. Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results Lobste Comment

41. Arch Linux: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository Lobste Comment

42. Integrating Effectful and Persistent Lobste Comment

43. AI Progress and the Forthcoming Plateau Lobste Comment

44. Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties Lobste Comment

45. Passing planes and other whoosh sounds Lobste Comment

46. Investigating truthfulness in a pre-release o3 model Lobste Comment

47. Development On Apple Silicon with UTM Lobste Comment

48. Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers Lobste Comment

49. Regular Expression Derivatives in Python Lobste Comment

50. Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF Lobste Comment

51. Unsure Calculator Lobste Comment

52. tariff: The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again Lobste Comment

53. sqlc: Generate type-safe code from SQL Lobste Comment

54. A practical hacker''s guide to the C programming language Lobste Comment

55. (All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too Lobste Comment

56. deb-books: books hidden in Debian source packages Lobste Comment

57. codex: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal Lobste Comment

58. TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days Lobste Comment

59. Learning Fennel from Scratch to Develop Neovim Plugins Lobste Comment

60. the lifecycle of a pull request Lobste Comment

61. Northguard: Scalable Log Storage at Linkedin (announcement event) Lobste Comment

62. Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor Lobste Comment

63. Resonate Lobste Comment

64. An Intro to DeepSeek''s Distributed File System Lobste Comment

65. Mastodon Exit Interview Lobste Comment

66. Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids Lobste Comment

67. Getting better performance out of object storage Lobste Comment

68. Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting - Lobste Comment

69. What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 Lobste Comment

70. swank-decorators: Python-inspired decorators for Ruby Lobste Comment

71. CISA extends funding to ensure ''no lapse in critical CVE services'' Lobste Comment

72. Crimes... And Felonies. [HP QuickLook and Daystarter] Lobste Comment

73. The 3-Year Journey to an Actually Good Monitoring Stack Lobste Comment

74. Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling Lobste Comment

75. Introducing Herb: A new HTML-Aware ERB Parser for smarting developer tooling Lobste Comment

76. Update on Spain and LaLiga blocks of the internet Lobste Comment

77. Supercharge your Tests with Snapshot Testing Lobste Comment

78. How To Build An Agent Lobste Comment

79. go-away (another http proxy for LLM scraper defence) Lobste Comment

80. Raw loops for performance? Lobste Comment

81. JSX Over The Wire Lobste Comment

82. Dangerous Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in Yelp (CVE-2025-3155) Lobste Comment

83. Atomicless Concurrency (2023) Lobste Comment

84. The Story Behind K2 Mode and How It Works The IntelliJ IDEA Blog Lobste Comment

85. Company''s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ''Easy Pickings'' Lobste Comment

86. A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed Lobste Comment

87. MITRE will stop issuing new CVEs Lobste Comment

88. Cutting Down Rust Compile Times With One Thousand Crates Lobste Comment

89. GNOME Shell Frippery Lobste Comment

90. An Introduction to Modern CMake Lobste Comment

91. The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is Lobste Comment

92. Understanding How Claude Thinks Lobste Comment

93. Ursa - ClickHouse Research Fork Lobste Comment

94. clolog Lobste Comment

95. Arch Linux now has an official WSL image Lobste Comment

96. When Life Gives You Java Lobste Comment

97. AerynOS Lobste Comment

98. You cannot have our user''s data Lobste Comment

99. Getting Started with W65C832 Lobste Comment

100. Flambda2 Ep. 4: How to write a purely functional compiler Lobste Comment

101. What Makes a Great Developer Experience? Lobste Comment

102. AHOY! European Social Web Day 2025 Lobste Comment

103. Two Years of Rust Lobste Comment

104. A Relational Model of Data (1969) Lobste Comment

105. Procedural Foliage Rendering with L-systems and Geometry Instancing Lobste Comment

106. The Problem with “Vibe Coding” Lobste Comment

107. Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch Lobste Comment

108. What the Hell Is a Target Triple? Lobste Comment

109. Async from scratch 2: Wake me maybe Lobste Comment

110. Bug Bash 2025 Conference Experience Lobste Comment

111. Tidbyt without the company Lobste Comment

112. A cautionary tale about continuity Lobste Comment

113. Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs Lobste Comment

114. Frontier AI Models Still Fail at Basic Physical Tasks: A Manufacturing Case Study Lobste Comment

115. Deploying TypeScript: recent advances and possible future directions Lobste Comment

116. A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries Lobste Comment

117. MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won’t Make (2024) Lobste Comment

118. An ssh adventure; or, why l10n support is important Lobste Comment

119. SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering Lobste Comment

120. Building LLVM plugins with Bazel Lobste Comment

121. Stasm: GCC/Clang inline assembly wrapper, C macro pre-processor based. ASM for human beings Lobste Comment

122. PanVK is officially Vulkan 1.1 conformant on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU Lobste Comment

123. Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting Lobste Comment

124. Flat origami is Turing complete Lobste Comment

125. The Post-Developer Era Lobste Comment

126. Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust Lobste Comment

127. git-remote-http is linked against incompatibly licensed OpenSSL Lobste Comment

128. C20 idioms for parameter packs Lobste Comment

129. Python is an interpreted language with a compiler Lobste Comment

130. We don’t need no virtualization Lobste Comment

131. I''ve been writing software for the last 25 years. Here are a few more things I''ve learned so far (part 2) Lobste Comment

132. htmx Documentation - Caching Lobste Comment

133. Gleam v1.10.0 released Lobste Comment

134. Fun with -fsanitizeundefined and Picolibc Lobste Comment

135. An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 Lobste Comment

136. Zig''s new LinkedList API (it''s time to learn @fieldParentPtr) Lobste Comment

137. Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch? Lobste Comment

138. I bought a Mac Lobste Comment

139. Visualizing Chess Bitboards Lobste Comment

140. Ship Software That Does Nothing Lobste Comment

141. Mandatory short duration TLS certificates are probably coming soon Lobste Comment

142. A Visual Journey Through Async Rust Lobste Comment

143. Solving One Million Sudoku Puzzles per hour Lobste Comment

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

145. An E-Ink PDA device using the ESP32 S3 Lobste Comment

146. Apps for GNOME Lobste Comment

147. The Five Critical Roles of Your Team Lobste Comment

148. A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips Lobste Comment

149. Speeding up Terraform caching with OverlayFS Lobste Comment

150. no-panic: Attribute macro to require that the compiler prove a function can''t ever panic Lobste Comment

151. Emacs Lisp Elements Lobste Comment

152. DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Lobste Comment

153. Torn Write Detection and Protection Lobste Comment

154. Glicko Rating Systems Lobste Comment

155. TrueSkill 2: An improved Bayesian skill rating system Lobste Comment

156. Why is there a "small house" in IBM''s Code page 437? Lobste Comment

157. Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Language (1981) Lobste Comment

158. Nix Trigonometric Math Library from Ground Zero Lobste Comment

159. RNG and Cosine in Nix Lobste Comment

160. Anubis works Lobste Comment

161. Natural Language Is Now the Only No-Code Tool That Matters Lobste Comment

162. cl-yasboi: Yet Another Starter Boilerplate for Common Lisp Lobste Comment

163. Creating 256 Bytes of RAM (in a simulation) Lobste Comment

164. ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig Lobste Comment

165. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs Lobste Comment

166. Holographic Masks Lobste Comment

167. CORE-MATH: high performance open-source mathematical functions with correct rounding Lobste Comment

168. BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody''s heard of Lobste Comment

169. Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering Lobste Comment

170. My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league), is it even legal? Lobste Comment

171. awe: A compiler for the Algol W programming language Lobste Comment

172. Slopsquatting: Planting Malicious Packages Under Names AIs Will Hallucinate Lobste Comment

173. Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025 Lobste Comment

174. Bug in Outlook PST Password Protection (2006) Lobste Comment

175. Python Performance: Why ''if not list'' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Lobste Comment

176. The 5 Levels of Configuration Languages Lobste Comment

177. Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU Lobste Comment

178. Convert Protobuf/Avro/JSON Kafka Messages to Apache Parquet with Tansu: A Step-by-Step Guide Lobste Comment

179. ASCII lookup utility in Ada Lobste Comment

180. tpchgen-rs: TPC-H benchmark data generation in pure Rust Lobste Comment

181. Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms Lobste Comment

182. Datastar - The hypermedia framework Lobste Comment

183. The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages Lobste Comment

184. CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks Lobste Comment

185. Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates Lobste Comment

186. How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge Lobste Comment

187. Golang sync.Pool is not a silver bullet Lobste Comment

188. Generative AI in Servo Lobste Comment

189. Maps with Django⁽³⁾: GeoDjango, Pillow & GPS Lobste Comment

190. wgpu v25.0.0 released Lobste Comment

191. Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing… Lobste Comment

192. quadrable: Authenticated multi-version database: sparse binary merkle tree with compact partial-tree proofs Lobste Comment

193. Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility [LWN.net] Lobste Comment

194. Simulating Some Queues Lobste Comment

195. SQL pie chart (2009) Lobste Comment

196. Real-time visualisation of London Underground Trains Lobste Comment

197. Haiku Activity & Contract Report, March 2025 Lobste Comment

198. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? Lobste Comment

199. 12-factor-agents: Principles to build LLM-powered software good enough to put in the hands of production customers? Lobste Comment

200. With Carrots & Sticks - Can the browser handle web security? Lobste Comment

201. Usb-C and its overengineered history Lobste Comment

202. Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Massive Scale Lobste Comment

203. Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI Lobste Comment

204. Default styles for h1 elements are changing Lobste Comment

205. FreeBSD Jails Security (versus Podman) Lobste Comment

206. Using Python 1.0 in 2022 Lobste Comment

207. chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade (2022) Lobste Comment

208. Controlling Language and Diffusion Models by Transporting Activations Lobste Comment

209. Time Maps: Visualizing Discrete Events for Data Analysis Lobste Comment

210. My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules Lobste Comment

211. cargo-mutants: :zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them Lobste Comment

212. RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (1995) Lobste Comment

213. The YAML Exponent Problem causing chaos in your config files Lobste Comment

214. Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds Lobste Comment

215. Introducing DBIx::Class::ResultSet::PrettyPrint Lobste Comment

216. 6 usability improvements in GCC 15 Lobste Comment

217. The “S” in MCP Stands for Security Lobste Comment

218. .localhost domains Lobste Comment

219. BTrees, Inverted Indices, and a Model for Full Text Search Lobste Comment

220. Lisp Programs Don''t Have Parentheses Lobste Comment

221. Having Fun With a Scamming Crypto Job Lobste Comment

222. Happy 18th Birthday CUDA Lobste Comment

223. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst Lobste Comment

224. The Y Combinator Explained in Python Lobste Comment

225. Django: what’s new in 5.2 Lobste Comment

226. Purely Functional Sliding Window Aggregation Algorithm Lobste Comment

227. RFC 3446 - Introduce the Store API for great good Lobste Comment

228. Elliptical Python Programming Lobste Comment

229. Adaptive Lossless Floating Point compression in Rust is faster than C Lobste Comment

230. Async from scratch 1: What''s in a Future, anyway? Lobste Comment

231. Why is Snapshot Isolation not enough? Lobste Comment

232. git-withme - Peer-to-peer, encrypted, ephemeral Git collaboration (git daemon with encryption) Lobste Comment

233. “It’s not that bad” they told me - Coreboot Lobste Comment

234. Visualizing a Million Time Series with the Density Line Chart Lobste Comment

235. React for Two Computers Lobste Comment

236. How Prime Video Cut UI Latency 7.6x by Switching to Rust Lobste Comment

237. What are "promotional" websites (not doc sites) that as a developer/SW eng you find useful/descriptive of a technology you use or consider using? Lobste Comment

238. what if the poison were rust? Lobste Comment

239. Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython Lobste Comment

240. Koreo: The platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes Lobste Comment

241. A compiler for the Micron programming language - the Oberon with the power of C Lobste Comment

242. barrelfish Lobste Comment

243. An LLM Query Understanding Service Lobste Comment

244. Man pages are great, man readers are the problem Lobste Comment

245. Maintenance Notice - Whisky Documentation Lobste Comment

246. How to Sync Anything Lobste Comment

247. facet: Rust reflection, serialization, deserialization — know the shape of your types Lobste Comment

248. How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs Lobste Comment

249. Hardening the Firefox Frontend with Content Security Policies Lobste Comment

250. Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own - George Johnson Lobste Comment

251. Is not writing tests unprofessional? (2019) Lobste Comment

252. OpenSSH 10.0 released Lobste Comment

253. the order of files in your ext4 filesystem does not matter Lobste Comment

254. Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K Lobste Comment

255. A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler Lobste Comment

256. How Does C Code Become Assembly Lobste Comment

257. Linux 6.15 Features Deliver A Lot For Intel & AMD, Many Other Changes Lobste Comment

258. coqoban: Sokoban (in Coq) Lobste Comment

259. Hardened File Backup Routine Lobste Comment

260. The Story Behind 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Lobste Comment

261. Global Value Numbering Using Random Interpretation Lobste Comment

262. shorty: a C library for concise lambdas Lobste Comment

263. Mistakes and cool things to do with arena allocators Lobste Comment

264. The SRE regular-expression notation (1998) Lobste Comment

265. Netbird: connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls Lobste Comment

266. Obituary for Cyc Lobste Comment

267. Bare: Fast, Lightweight Runtime for Modular JavaScript App Lobste Comment

268. PyReason: Explainable inference for annotated, real valued, graph based and temporal logic Lobste Comment

269. How to "get a feel for the data" Lobste Comment

270. dreckly: pkgsrc fork focused on quality and portability to all UNIX-like platforms Lobste Comment

271. Better typography with text-wrap pretty Lobste Comment

272. "Verified" "Compilation" of "Python" with Knuckledragger, GCC, and Ghidra Lobste Comment

273. Every programming language needs its killer app to succeed Lobste Comment

274. FreeDOS 1.4 released Lobste Comment

275. Parser Combinators Beat Regexes Lobste Comment

276. What it''s like to interview a software engineer preparing with AI Lobste Comment

277. This Month in Redox - March 2025 Lobste Comment

278. Zen and The Art of Semiconductor Manufacturing Lobste Comment

279. More devops than I bargained for Lobste Comment

280. Go Zero Values Lobste Comment

281. The most linked-to domains Lobste Comment

282. FreeBSD VNET Jails Networking Lobste Comment

283. Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers? Lobste Comment

284. The Gamma Knife model of incidents (2019) Lobste Comment

285. Beautiful CI for Bazel Lobste Comment

286. Remembering John Conway''s FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language Lobste Comment

287. Writing good comments: the why, not the how (2020) Lobste Comment

288. Emacs Startup Time Doesn’t Matter Lobste Comment

289. Lux - a new package manager for Lua Lobste Comment

290. Notes on Literate Programming Lobste Comment

291. Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust Lobste Comment

292. rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia Lobste Comment

293. hg-git: git backend for mercurial Lobste Comment

294. Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins Lobste Comment

295. Beware when moving a std::optional (2023) Lobste Comment

296. The Troll Hole Adventure (1980) Lobste Comment

297. Emulating an iPhone in QEMU Lobste Comment

298. 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful Lobste Comment

299. Git Links in Org Lobste Comment

300. Writing C for curl Lobste Comment