1. The Man Who Stole Infinity Lobste Comment

2. Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game (2017) Lobste Comment

3. How my side project got banned from the internet Lobste Comment

4. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? Lobste Comment

5. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines [pdf, 2003] Lobste Comment

6. Introducing PgBeam, a globally distributed PostgreSQL proxy Lobste Comment

7. The Gilded Age of Open Source is over Lobste Comment

8. AirSnitch: Demystifying and Breaking Client Isolation in Wi-Fi Networks Lobste Comment

9. OsmAnd''s Faster Offline Navigation Lobste Comment

10. Open Source Endowment — World''s First Endowment Fund for OSS Lobste Comment

11. Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web Lobste Comment

12. Sliced by Go’s Slices Lobste Comment

13. snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh · Lobste Comment

14. Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes Lobste Comment

15. Model Collapse Ends AI Hype Lobste Comment

16. Unit testing your code’s performance, part 2: Testing for speed changes Lobste Comment

17. maiao: easy, Gerrit-style, stacked diffs workflow for GitHub Lobste Comment

18. Can LLMs SAT? Lobste Comment

19. Data Confidentiality via Storage Encryption on Embedded Linux Devices Lobste Comment

20. Git in Postgres Lobste Comment

21. Evolving Languages Faster with Type Tailoring (2024) Lobste Comment

22. 96.5% of confusables.txt from Unicode is not high-risk Lobste Comment

23. BuildKit: Docker''s hidden gem that can build almost anything Lobste Comment

24. Google API Keys Weren''t Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules Lobste Comment

25. An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android Lobste Comment

26. Introducing Lyte2D: A comfy little game engine Lobste Comment

27. Against Query Based Compilers Lobste Comment

28. Long Range E-Bike Lobste Comment

29. Managing Complexity with Mycelium Lobste Comment

30. Gleam is boring, so I went to a conference about it Lobste Comment

31. Deterministic Programming with LLMs Lobste Comment

32. The Slow Death of the Power User Lobste Comment

33. Text-Based Google Directions Lobste Comment

34. What interesting (and smaller) conferences are there in 2026? Lobste Comment

35. Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism Lobste Comment

36. Recursive Make Considered Harmful [2006] Lobste Comment

37. Practical Decentralization Lobste Comment

38. Firefox pwn2own 2025 documentary part 2 Lobste Comment

39. Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs Lobste Comment

40. Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone Lobste Comment

41. Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History Lobste Comment

42. Fake Job Interviews Are Installing Backdoors on Developer Machines Lobste Comment

43. I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here''s What I Actually Handed Over Lobste Comment

44. Windows 11 Notepad to support markdown Lobste Comment

45. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures Lobste Comment

46. Software Engineering Has Changed Lobste Comment

47. ANN: Tada 0.4.0 - local (cached) dependencies support Lobste Comment

48. How AI Will Change the Mobile Ecosystem Lobste Comment

49. New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes Lobste Comment

50. Tests Are The New Moat Lobste Comment

51. The Road Ahead for LocalStack: Upcoming Changes to the Delivery of Our AWS Cloud Emulators (2025) Lobste Comment

52. Current Large Audio Language Models largely transcribe rather than listen Lobste Comment

53. Lambda World 2019 - Language-Oriented Programming with Racket - Matthias Felleisen Lobste Comment

54. Your system is fine. Your users aren''t Lobste Comment

55. Building Index-Backed Query Plans in DataFusion Lobste Comment

56. I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games Lobste Comment

57. Turing Completeness of GNU find: From mkdir-assisted Loops to Standalone Computation Lobste Comment

58. Justifying text-wrap: pretty Lobste Comment

59. ansigpt: c89 implementation of microgpt Lobste Comment

60. How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week Lobste Comment

61. RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS) Lobste Comment

62. Introducing jjq, a local merge queue for jj Lobste Comment

63. UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough Lobste Comment

64. Charm v2: Major releases for Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles for terminal UIs in Go Lobste Comment

65. nsnotifyd-2.4 released Lobste Comment

66. λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic Lobste Comment

67. Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite Lobste Comment

68. Sometimes it''s just better to load "all" the data Lobste Comment

69. Scheduling in a Bare-Metal Web Server Lobste Comment

70. How macOS controls performance: QoS on Intel and M1 processors (2022) Lobste Comment

71. TLA By Example Lobste Comment

72. “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything” Lobste Comment

73. Row Locks With Joins Can Produce Surprising Results in PostgreSQL Lobste Comment

74. Can agentic coding raise the quality bar? Lobste Comment

75. Reducing the size of Go binaries by up to 77% Lobste Comment

76. framedeck: A Framework mainboard based Cyberdeck Lobste Comment

77. Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 Lobste Comment

78. Lines of Code Are Back (And It''s Worse Than Before) Lobste Comment

79. About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design Lobste Comment

80. Sprites on the Web Lobste Comment

81. How I got Claude to teach me dbt Lobste Comment

82. Rust debugging survey 2026 Lobste Comment

83. Desk Setup: From Multi-Monitor to Single Screen with Virtual Desktops Lobste Comment

84. Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps Lobste Comment

85. Permacomputing Lobste Comment

86. Speeding up HTML generation by 2000% Lobste Comment

87. trolley: Run terminal apps anywhere Lobste Comment

88. Compiler Education Deserves a Revolution Lobste Comment

89. Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack''s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet Lobste Comment

90. x86CSS - An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS Lobste Comment

91. C Enum Sizes; or, How MSVC Ignores The Standard Once Again Lobste Comment

92. I ported Coreboot to the Thinkpad X270 Lobste Comment

93. Signed, Sealed, Stolen: How We Patched Critical Vulnerabilities Under Fire Lobste Comment

94. Coordinating adversarial AI agents Lobste Comment

95. Binding port 0 to avoid port collisions Lobste Comment

96. 300 Days of RuboCop Lobste Comment

97. Verifpal, Rewritten in Rust Lobste Comment

98. Brag Frog – The brag doc that builds itself from GitHub, Jira and Co Lobste Comment

99. DMMSY: C99 implementation of Single-Source Shortest Path Lobste Comment

100. Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote Lobste Comment

101. rango: Voice control for browsers Lobste Comment

102. Disappointing phones Lobste Comment

103. Tracking NixOS option values and dependencies Lobste Comment

104. So I''ve Been Thinking About Static Site Generators Lobste Comment

105. Using Haskell''s ''newtype'' in C Lobste Comment

106. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI Lobste Comment

107. You don''t need free lists Lobste Comment

108. Designing Odin''s Casting Syntax Lobste Comment

109. Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself Lobste Comment

110. Queues for Kafka ready for prime time Lobste Comment

111. Hetzner Price Adjustment - Hetzner Docs Lobste Comment

112. Forgejo, AGit, and Pull Request Templates Lobste Comment

113. microgpt - LLM visualizer Lobste Comment

114. Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours Lobste Comment

115. Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 Lobste Comment

116. Efficient and ACID Compliant Vector Search Indexes in Firebolt Lobste Comment

117. Using nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary Lobste Comment

118. Fast starting Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image Crema Lobste Comment

119. Official specification and reference code for Fast Lightweight Online Encryption (FLOE) Lobste Comment

120. jit: A header-only, cross-platform JIT compiler library in C. Targets x86-32, x86-64, ARM32 and ARM64 Lobste Comment

121. Simulating fusion reactors in C Lobste Comment

122. codespelunker - CLI code search tool that understands code structure and ranks results by relevance. No indexing required Lobste Comment

123. Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024) Lobste Comment

124. Swift Import Declarations (2019) Lobste Comment

125. confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters Lobste Comment

126. The Tears of Donald Knuth Lobste Comment

127. Read Locks Are Not Your Friends Lobste Comment

128. Bit-fields Lobste Comment

129. Documentary about Mozilla Firefox at pwn2own (part 1) Lobste Comment

130. CSLib: The Lean Computer Science Library Lobste Comment

131. Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 Lobste Comment

132. Are Compilers Deterministic? Lobste Comment

133. The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976 Lobste Comment

134. Intent - The developer workspace for agent orchestration Lobste Comment

135. Drowse: Nix dynamic derivations made easy Lobste Comment

136. We hid backdoors in 40MB binaries and asked AI Ghidra to find them Lobste Comment

137. Parse, Don’t Validate AKA Some C Safety Tips Lobste Comment

138. Velocity Is Dead: AI-Generated Compilers and the Future of Software Lobste Comment

139. Creator of bcachefs seems to have anthropomorphized an LLM and is letting it work on the filesystem Lobste Comment

140. Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps Lobste Comment

141. How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip? Lobste Comment

142. You are not left behind Lobste Comment

143. UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms Lobste Comment

144. Accessibility Is Civil Rights. AI Must Stop Shipping Barriers Lobste Comment

145. Cosmologically Unique IDs Lobste Comment

146. Proposal: add "AI generated" as a flag reason Lobste Comment

147. HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with nginx in a Bastille Jail Lobste Comment

148. cl-kawa: A Turducken of Programming Languages Lobste Comment

149. How We Fixed YAML Comment Preservation in Ruby (And Why We Sponsored It) Lobste Comment

150. Fix your tools Lobste Comment

151. A ''frozen'' dictionary for Python Lobste Comment

152. How and Why Local LLMs Perform On Framework 13 AMD Strix Point Lobste Comment

153. The Future of Math Research in the Age of AI Lobste Comment

154. Hemmi/Post 1460 Versalog (Sliderule emulator) Lobste Comment

155. Loon — A LISP that flies Lobste Comment

156. ThunderKittens 2.0: Even Faster Kernels for Your GPUs Lobste Comment

157. DUMPLING: Fine-grained Differential JavaScript Engine Fuzzing Lobste Comment

158. lobste.rs migrates from MariaDB to SQLite Lobste Comment

159. Prefer If Statements To Polymorphism Lobste Comment

160. MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems Lobste Comment

161. Aesthetics of Single Threading Lobste Comment

162. Parse, don''t Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust Lobste Comment

163. IPv6 address assignment Lobste Comment

164. cereggii: Thread synchronization utilities for Python Lobste Comment

165. Whale Fall Lobste Comment

166. The Fastest Way to Board an Airplane Lobste Comment

167. The C Iceberg Lobste Comment

168. Librsvg got its first AI slop pull request Lobste Comment

169. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links Lobste Comment

170. The Rise and Fall of Scala: A Love Letter to the Language That Broke My Heart Lobste Comment

171. Process Isolation on NetBSD with chroot Lobste Comment

172. ajail: a basic jail for programs you don''t completely trust Lobste Comment

173. joinirc.at: Link to your IRC server on any client to onboard new users Lobste Comment

174. I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer Lobste Comment

175. Turn Dependabot Off Lobste Comment

176. goatstack: project scaffolding tool for Go Templ webapps Lobste Comment

177. A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards Lobste Comment

178. Lil'' Fun Langs Lobste Comment

179. Lobsters Interview with steveklabnik Lobste Comment

180. Death to Scroll Fade Lobste Comment

181. finding credentials in .msi files with msiexec Lobste Comment

182. Brat, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell Lobste Comment

183. Relocating Rigor Lobste Comment

184. IPv6 Adoption in 2026 Lobste Comment

185. The path to ubiquitous AI Lobste Comment

186. How I built a minimal-knowledge sync for WorkLedger Lobste Comment

187. Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition) Lobste Comment

188. Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries Lobste Comment

189. Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden Lobste Comment

190. eBPF the Hard Way Lobste Comment

191. "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought Lobste Comment

192. Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database Lobste Comment

193. I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I’ve always wanted Lobste Comment

194. A Web Revival: the Internet didn''t die, you''re just not on it Lobste Comment

195. Your Personal Blog Should Have Comments Lobste Comment

196. Keep Android Open Lobste Comment

197. two mechanisms for dynamic type checks Lobste Comment

198. Internationalise The Fediverse Lobste Comment

199. The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software Lobste Comment

200. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward Lobste Comment

201. The Dillo Appreciation Post Lobste Comment

202. How I made a shooter game in 64 KB Lobste Comment

203. reading the undocumented mems accelerometer on apple silicon macbooks via iokit hid Lobste Comment

204. A Scheme Shell (1994) Lobste Comment

205. Lindenmayer Systems Lobste Comment

206. Using candyfloss to do neural net inference Lobste Comment

207. Hold on to Your Hardware Lobste Comment

208. Towards Real-World Industrial-Scale Verification: LLM-Driven Theorem Proving on seL4 Lobste Comment

209. Every app you''ve built is an ETL pipeline (you just didn''t call it that) Lobste Comment

210. Resurrecting _why''s Dream Lobste Comment

211. Concrete syntax matters, actually Lobste Comment

212. AI makes you boring Lobste Comment

213. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026) Lobste Comment

214. Netbase a port of the netbsd utilities for linux Lobste Comment

215. The Perils of ISBN Lobste Comment

216. ClawShell, Process-Level Isolation for OpenClaw Credentials Lobste Comment

217. Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax? Lobste Comment

218. Using the Browser’s for Data Compression Lobste Comment

219. Don’t Trust Packet Captures on Firewalls Lobste Comment

220. Linux CVE assignment process Lobste Comment

221. Clinejection — Compromising Cline''s Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager Lobste Comment

222. Salt: Systems programming, mathematically verified Lobste Comment

223. Lilush: A static LuaJIT runtime with batteries Lobste Comment

224. Fairstream Lobste Comment

225. Paged Out! #8 Lobste Comment

226. pg-here: Run a local PostgreSQL instance in your project folder with one command Lobste Comment

227. Tuple Spaces Lobste Comment

228. State of Clojure 2025 Results Lobste Comment

229. Permissive, then restrictive: concrete solutions and examples in Haskell (2020) Lobste Comment

230. An update on upki Lobste Comment

231. Monitoring Data-Dependent Temporal Patterns Lobste Comment

232. C26: std::is_within_lifetime Lobste Comment

233. CEL by Example Lobste Comment

234. how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds Lobste Comment

235. Ditching Discord Lobste Comment

236. Top 20 worldwide with social-engineering and a cheat that''s still undetected Lobste Comment

237. DBML: DSL for easily creating ER diagrams Lobste Comment

238. Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers Lobste Comment

239. Notes on clarifying man pages Lobste Comment

240. Rust on CHERIoT: Status update #0 Lobste Comment

241. Why I don''t think AGI is imminent Lobste Comment

242. 130k Lines of Formal Topology in Two Weeks: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? Lobste Comment

243. Bruteforcing the Bitwarden master password I forgor Lobste Comment

244. Current - An RSS reader Lobste Comment

245. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You Lobste Comment

246. Non-Contributory Keys in the Matrix Lobste Comment

247. F9 Kernel Lobste Comment

248. DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation Lobste Comment

249. The Global Trust Register (1999) Lobste Comment

250. Dank Linux - Desktop Environment for Wayland and Niri Lobste Comment

251. Understanding Whole Program Paths and Path Profiling Lobste Comment

252. AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation Lobste Comment

253. 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram Lobste Comment

254. The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out Lobste Comment

255. What''s cooking on SourceHut? Q1 2026 Lobste Comment

256. model-context-shell: Unix-style pipelines for MCP. Deterministic tool calls Lobste Comment

257. Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 Lobste Comment

258. BarraCUDA: Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!) Lobste Comment

259. Minimal x86 Kernel in Zig Lobste Comment

260. 6502 Emulation - The Jump Indirect Bug Lobste Comment

261. claimcheck: Narrowing the Gap between Proof and Intent Lobste Comment

262. "Vendoring" is a vile anti-pattern (2014) Lobste Comment

263. Cryptographic Issues in Matrix’s Rust Library Vodozemac Lobste Comment

264. An assembler that compiles to a printf loop Lobste Comment

265. LeBron James Is President – Exploiting LLMs via "Alignment" Context Injection Lobste Comment

266. Are We Becoming Architects or Butlers to LLMs? Lobste Comment

267. AsteroidOS 2.0 Has Landed Lobste Comment

268. One page of async Rust Lobste Comment

269. Oat, Ultra-lightweight UI library, Semantic, minimal, zero dependencies Lobste Comment

270. Terminals should generate the 256-color palette Lobste Comment

271. GPU code can now use Rust''s async/await Lobste Comment

272. Plasma 6.6 released Lobste Comment

273. Gentoo on Codeberg Lobste Comment

274. Using go fix to modernize Go code Lobste Comment

275. Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers Lobste Comment

276. Please don''t at-here on Slack Lobste Comment

277. What is Messaging Layer Security (MLS)? Lobste Comment

278. Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs Lobste Comment

279. How a single typo led to RCE in Firefox Lobste Comment

280. Vinyl Cache has left github Lobste Comment

281. The Evolution of x86 SIMD: From SSE to AVX-512 Lobste Comment

282. Doctor Xælong, or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love AI Lobste Comment

283. --dangerously-skip-reading-code Lobste Comment

284. Undo in Vi and its successors Lobste Comment

285. Sometimes giving syndication feed readers good errors is a mistake Lobste Comment

286. AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach Lobste Comment

287. The Next Version of Curling IO Lobste Comment

288. Fast sorting, branchless by design Lobste Comment

289. building sqlite with a small swarm Lobste Comment

290. LCM: Lossless Context Management Lobste Comment

291. The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation Lobste Comment

292. java.evolved Code Snippets Lobste Comment

293. A Broken Heart Lobste Comment

294. The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem Lobste Comment

295. An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms Lobste Comment

296. Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution Lobste Comment

297. 2026 will not be the ‘Year of Linux on the Desktop’, and I’m glad Lobste Comment

298. Level of Detail Lobste Comment

299. From Text to Token: How Tokenization Pipelines Work Lobste Comment

300. Poor Deming never stood a chance Lobste Comment