1. I hotreload Rust and so can you Lobste Comment

2. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering Lobste Comment

3. Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine Lobste Comment

4. A Website To End All Websites Lobste Comment

5. Pushing the smallest possible change to production — Lobste Comment

6. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC Lobste Comment

7. kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish Lobste Comment

8. Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026 Lobste Comment

9. How ClickHouse handles strings Lobste Comment

10. GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode Lobste Comment

11. Myths we tell ourselves about software engineering Lobste Comment

12. Cursor''s latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence Lobste Comment

13. I set all 376 Vim options and I''m still a fool Lobste Comment

14. Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs Lobste Comment

15. Cutting LLM token Usage by 80% using REPL driven document analysis Lobste Comment

16. smalloc: a simple memory allocator Lobste Comment

17. What are your favorite drawing libraries? Lobste Comment

18. Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing Lobste Comment

19. The State of Rust Cryptography in 2026 Lobste Comment

20. OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor Lobste Comment

21. 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available Lobste Comment

22. Designated Initializers, the best feature of C20 Lobste Comment

23. The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare Lobste Comment

24. READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust Lobste Comment

25. Experimental High Dynamic Range video playback on Windows in Firefox Nightly 148 Lobste Comment

26. Ergonomic abstractions for numerical computing: My story so far Lobste Comment

27. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news Lobste Comment

28. Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct Lobste Comment

29. Implementing Co, a Small Language With Coroutines #5: Adding Sleep Lobste Comment

30. Primecoin and Cunningham Prime Chains Lobste Comment

31. Modern Java Lobste Comment

32. The Magic of the Better Software Conference Lobste Comment

33. PostgreSQL in Gleam with pog, squirrel, and cigogne Lobste Comment

34. StackWarp Vulnerability Lobste Comment

35. On System Design (2006) Lobste Comment

36. Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them Lobste Comment

37. My Projects in 2025 Lobste Comment

38. Cryptography 30 years apart: Ascon on an HP-16C Lobste Comment

39. A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9, part 1: Decoding Dolby Lobste Comment

40. Integration tests are best tests Lobste Comment

41. Getting Started with Voice Driven Development (2019) Lobste Comment

42. Quint Visualizer: a GraphViz-like visualizer for Quint traces Lobste Comment

43. Why is Zig so Cool? Lobste Comment

44. Reverse engineering my cloud-connected e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock all scooters Lobste Comment

45. HTTP RateLimit headers Lobste Comment

46. Depth-first Unary Degree Sequence Lobste Comment

47. How to parametrize exception testing in PyTest? Lobste Comment

48. TWC Security Party - Group education event for tech workers to improve their privacy and make friends - Jan 26, 17:30 ET Lobste Comment

49. Large feeds and RFC 5005 Lobste Comment

50. Going immutable on macOS Lobste Comment

51. Finding Solar Farms with a 42k-Parameter Model Lobste Comment

52. New Social Web Working Group at W3C Lobste Comment

53. To those who fired or didn''t hire tech writers because of AI Lobste Comment

54. Forgejo v14.0 is available Lobste Comment

55. iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes Lobste Comment

56. I’m The Captain Now: Hijacking a global ocean supply chain network Lobste Comment

57. Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail Lobste Comment

58. The people who built Wikipedia, technically (2021) Lobste Comment

59. MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes Lobste Comment

60. On FLOSS and training LLMs Lobste Comment

61. Codeless Code - Fables & Koans for the Software Engineer Lobste Comment

62. The discoveries of continuations Lobste Comment

63. Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 Lobste Comment

64. Lobsters Battlestations and Screenshots (2026) Lobste Comment

65. Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files Lobste Comment

66. Finding and Fixing a 50,000 Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production Lobste Comment

67. I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck Lobste Comment

68. Rickroll in rustc Lobste Comment

69. My AI got a Github account Lobste Comment

70. Scaling long-running autonomous coding Lobste Comment

71. Writing Anteforth, a Forth-like in SPARK Lobste Comment

72. The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography Lobste Comment

73. Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source Lobste Comment

74. What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical? Lobste Comment

75. SelfCI - a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI Lobste Comment

76. Coding on a Phone: What I Learned Building Software on Mobile in the Last Three Weeks Lobste Comment

77. Why language interpreters and virtual machines are slow Lobste Comment

78. Chat is the least interesting interface to LLMs Lobste Comment

79. My Gripes with Prolog Lobste Comment

80. Scrollbars in Scrollbars Lobste Comment

81. permission to begin learning Lobste Comment

82. Verifying State & Reconciliation in Collaborative Web Apps Lobste Comment

83. Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks Lobste Comment

84. Keeping Bandcamp Human Lobste Comment

85. My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-time vs. Runtime Lobste Comment

86. From passwords to passkeys Lobste Comment

87. Servo 2025 Stats Lobste Comment

88. eBPF.party Lobste Comment

89. Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent Lobste Comment

90. Black-White Array: A New Data Structure for Dynamic Data Sets Lobste Comment

91. How to Build Good Software Lobste Comment

92. Just the Browser Lobste Comment

93. VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Framework Weaponizing Linux Infrastructure Lobste Comment

94. Why We Don''t Use AI Lobste Comment

95. Build your own programming language (2020) Lobste Comment

96. Rust at Volvo Cars Lobste Comment

97. How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap Lobste Comment

98. Stop using natural language interfaces Lobste Comment

99. The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar Lobste Comment

100. I''m a Happy engineer now Lobste Comment

101. The Insecure Evangelism of LLM Maximalists Lobste Comment

102. Bevy 0.18 Lobste Comment

103. Small Kafka: Tansu SQLite on a free t3.micro (AWS Free Tier) Lobste Comment

104. TruffleRuby 33 is Released Lobste Comment

105. Server-First Web Component Architecture: SXO Reactive Component Lobste Comment

106. Ever wanted to look at yourself... in Braille? Lobste Comment

107. Forklifts, Facts, and Functions: Building a Warehouse Management System with ClojureDatomic - Pote Lobste Comment

108. I made a TypeScript to native code compiler via CLR and NativeAOT Lobste Comment

109. Anthropic invests 1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security Lobste Comment

110. Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging Lobste Comment

111. AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse Lobste Comment

112. Volumetric Cloud Rendering - Jack Tollenaar Lobste Comment

113. Rethinking Geolocation on the Internet Lobste Comment

114. Solving Factorio with Terraform - YouTube Lobste Comment

115. hybrid quota-linear rate limiter Lobste Comment

116. Win8DE: windows 8 like de for linux Lobste Comment

117. HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books Lobste Comment

118. More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (2025) Lobste Comment

119. The hidden cost of PostgreSQL arrays Lobste Comment

120. Date is out, Temporal is in Lobste Comment

121. State of DataHaskell Q1 2026 Lobste Comment

122. How GitHub could secure npm Lobste Comment

123. Detecting MIME Types in Go Lobste Comment

124. Your CLI''s completion should know what options you''ve already typed Lobste Comment

125. Remarks on SFrame Lobste Comment

126. Grounding LLMs with Recursive Code Execution Lobste Comment

127. Overview of Ramp''s internal background coding agent Lobste Comment

128. How to stick with your projects, even when they''re janky Lobste Comment

129. Building the SCION 25 Gbit/s Workstation Lobste Comment

130. Building a High-End AI Desktop Lobste Comment

131. Text-based web browsers Lobste Comment

132. Bad Dye Job Lobste Comment

133. How to Make a Damn Website Lobste Comment

134. The rise (and future fall) of Discord Lobste Comment

135. The J Incunabulum Lobste Comment

136. we rolled our own documentation site Lobste Comment

137. Examining Iran’s Internet Status Amid Escalating Protests Lobste Comment

138. Friction Logs (2018) Lobste Comment

139. Anthropic''s big mistake Lobste Comment

140. frameworks for understanding databases Lobste Comment

141. One Thousand Words Lobste Comment

142. Three Inverse Laws of Robotics Lobste Comment

143. The great calculator debate: Educators disagree over their place in the classroom (1986) Lobste Comment

144. The coolest feature in Python 3.14 Lobste Comment

145. A Typical PDF Lobste Comment

146. Patela v2: From certificates to hardware Lobste Comment

147. Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t Lobste Comment

148. Rethinking Helix Lobste Comment

149. Tuning Random Generators: Property-Based Testing as Probabilistic Programming Lobste Comment

150. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe Lobste Comment

151. Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents Lobste Comment

152. When msvc::musttail attribute silently fails Lobste Comment

153. Mitigating the Billion Dollar Mistake Lobste Comment

154. Who are people currently using as hosting providers? Lobste Comment

155. WhatsApp is untrustable Lobste Comment

156. Exponential growth continued — cargo-semver-checks 2025 Year in Review Lobste Comment

157. The Curious Case of Stack Pivot Detection Lobste Comment

158. Keeping 20,000 GPUs healthy Lobste Comment

159. 1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025 Lobste Comment

160. LLVM: The bad parts Lobste Comment

161. Google automatically emails 13 year olds to allow them to opt out of parental supervision Lobste Comment

162. gomponents, HTML components in pure Go Lobste Comment

163. We default to addition Lobste Comment

164. Airfrog: Tiny sub-5 wireless co-processor for ARM MCUs Lobste Comment

165. KIM1-Demo: for the KIM-1''s 50th birthday Lobste Comment

166. Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon Lobste Comment

167. std::move doesn''t move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories Lobste Comment

168. Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer Lobste Comment

169. Towards a Disaggregated Agent Filesystem on Object Storage Lobste Comment

170. PMU Counters on Apple Silicon Lobste Comment

171. The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well Lobste Comment

172. Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer Lobste Comment

173. Don''t fall into the anti-AI hype Lobste Comment

174. I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It''s Faster) Lobste Comment

175. How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io Lobste Comment

176. Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead Lobste Comment

177. whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code Lobste Comment

178. Linus is vibe coding Lobste Comment

179. A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language Lobste Comment

180. Are NixOS services down? Lobste Comment

181. 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3] Lobste Comment

182. 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise Lobste Comment

183. Code And Let Live Lobste Comment

184. Writing mutexes from scratch in Go Lobste Comment

185. annote: Writing java using only annotations Lobste Comment

186. Finding and Fixing Ghostty''s Largest Memory Leak Lobste Comment

187. V16 beacon full uplink conversation Lobste Comment

188. jj tug Lobste Comment

189. OpenChaos.dev Lobste Comment

190. Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer Lobste Comment

191. Womangling Lobste Comment

192. Comparative Analysis of Low-Dimensional Features and Tree-Based Ensembles for Malware Detection Systems (2020) Lobste Comment

193. LLMs have burned Billions but couldn''t build another Tailwind Lobste Comment

194. Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem Lobste Comment

195. How I use Jujutsu Lobste Comment

196. Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) Lobste Comment

197. Don’t snipe me in space - intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers Lobste Comment

198. A year of work on the ALPM project Lobste Comment

199. Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust Lobste Comment

200. Gleam’s Design and Compiler Lobste Comment

201. Sanctum 1.0.0 - small, reviewable, capable, PQ-secure and fully privilege separated novel VPN daemon and protocol Lobste Comment

202. Tag Proposal: logic-lang Lobste Comment

203. Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months Lobste Comment

204. Phosh 2025 in Retrospect Lobste Comment

205. How Markdown took over the world Lobste Comment

206. Introducing EktuPy Lobste Comment

207. Garbage collected handles are lifetime-contravariant Lobste Comment

208. Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell Lobste Comment

209. Embermarks: A Firefox extension to discover forgotten bookmarks Lobste Comment

210. An Adequate Left-Associated Binary Numeral System in the lambda-Calculus Lobste Comment

211. Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells Lobste Comment

212. How we made Python''s packaging library 3x faster Lobste Comment

213. Answer Set Programming (2019) Lobste Comment

214. Making Tools Developers Actually Use - Michiel Borkent Lobste Comment

215. Which programming languages are most token-efficient? Lobste Comment

216. I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine) Lobste Comment

217. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str Lobste Comment

218. slidge.im - Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks Lobste Comment

219. Automatic TLS Certificates for Common Lisp with pure-tls/acme Lobste Comment

220. GBC Boot Animation 8831 Web Button Lobste Comment

221. Celeste & TowerFall Physics Lobste Comment

222. Shell scripts Lobste Comment

223. European Commission issues call for evidence on open source Lobste Comment

224. Magicall: end-to-end encrypted videoconferencing in the browser, now in alpha Lobste Comment

225. jxl-rs merged into Chromium Lobste Comment

226. Project Patchouli - Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware Lobste Comment

227. Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code Lobste Comment

228. I''m making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) Lobste Comment

229. A Year of Typing: My NumPy Fellowship Retrospective Lobste Comment

230. Dell seems to be the first to realise we don''t actually care about AI PCs Lobste Comment

231. HTML parsers in Portland Lobste Comment

232. A data model for Git Lobste Comment

233. Why SemVer fails when you patch old versions and what to do instead Lobste Comment

234. How Terminals Work Lobste Comment

235. jujutsu v0.37.0 released Lobste Comment

236. Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation Lobste Comment

237. Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet - Ten Years Later Lobste Comment

238. Lessons from Hash Table Merging Lobste Comment

239. How I program in AWK Lobste Comment

240. Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid Lobste Comment

241. Cursorless: Voice coding at the speed of thought Lobste Comment

242. Some Things I''ve Learned About Software Lobste Comment

243. What Happened To WebAssembly Lobste Comment

244. Introduction to SIMD programming in pure Rust Lobste Comment

245. The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden''s runtime Lobste Comment

246. FreeBSD Home NAS, part 8: Backing up NFS and Samba data with restic Lobste Comment

247. Run Your Project in a Dev Container, in Zed Lobste Comment

248. Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI Lobste Comment

249. Per-query energy consumption of LLMs Lobste Comment

250. BLAKE2s Hashing Accelerator: A Solo Tapeout Journey Lobste Comment

251. Worst of Breed Software Lobste Comment

252. What would make OCaml serverless ready? Lobste Comment

253. Fun with Algebraic Effects - from Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations Lobste Comment

254. Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? • Lea Verou Lobste Comment

255. NumPy-QuadDType: A cross-platform Quad (128-bit) float Data-Type for NumPy Lobste Comment

256. embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async Lobste Comment

257. Some Gleam Projects Lobste Comment

258. ACM is Now Fully Open Access Lobste Comment

259. The Submarine Cable Boom as Told by a Decade of TeleGeography Maps Lobste Comment

260. Software Acceleration and Desynchronization Lobste Comment

261. Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP Lobste Comment

262. Relax for the same result Lobste Comment

263. Unit testing your code’s performance, part 1: Big-O scaling Lobste Comment

264. The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14 Lobste Comment

265. Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration Lobste Comment

266. Attention Is Bayesian Inference Lobste Comment

267. Software craftsmanship is dead Lobste Comment

268. Watch me run malware from NPM Lobste Comment

269. Policy-Based Design versus Combinatorial Hell Lobste Comment

270. Brain Data in Clojure 2: BrainFloj in Premise and Practice - Lyons Lobste Comment

271. Judging a Type by Its Pointer: Optimizing GPU Virtual Functions (2021) Lobste Comment

272. voxtype: Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors Lobste Comment

273. NES Top Gun: landing hotfix Lobste Comment

274. Effortless animations with CSS view transitions Lobste Comment

275. Hermes Studio demo (my React Native decompiler and disassembler) Lobste Comment

276. Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters Lobste Comment

277. A4 Paper Stories Lobste Comment

278. The most popular Go dependency is… Lobste Comment

279. c-from-scratch: Learn to build safety-critical systems in C Lobste Comment

280. GoTHub SSH Signup Lobste Comment

281. Why I Stop Prompting and Start Logging: The Design-Log Methodology Lobste Comment

282. What is index overhead on writes? Lobste Comment

283. PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications Lobste Comment

284. XMPP and metadata Lobste Comment

285. Freestyle linked lists tricks Lobste Comment

286. Why write unit tests? (2024) Lobste Comment

287. why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is Lobste Comment

288. This Month in Redox - December 2025 Lobste Comment

289. Where are all the low-level JITs? Lobste Comment

290. High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it Lobste Comment

291. Diffs - JS library for rendering diffs Lobste Comment

292. PostgreSQL Scripting Tips Lobste Comment

293. Gemini Protocol Stats Lobste Comment

294. Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml Lobste Comment

295. Self-exchange leaves us in a valid but unspecified state Lobste Comment

296. H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs Lobste Comment

297. There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout Lobste Comment

298. Announcing mooR 1.0-beta1 Lobste Comment

299. The Best Line Length is 88 Lobste Comment

300. The microservices fallacy - Microliths (2021) Lobste Comment