1. Updates on GNU/Hurd progress Lobste Comment

2. How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis Lobste Comment

3. 3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute - Phoronix Lobste Comment

4. An Update on Heroku Lobste Comment

5. Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games Lobste Comment

6. canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header -like 2D rasterizer for C Lobste Comment

7. Sysadmin In The LLM Age Lobste Comment

8. Using microvm.nix to sandbox Openclaw Lobste Comment

9. Hackers (1995) Animated Experience Lobste Comment

10. bliss music analyzer library Lobste Comment

11. Text classification with Python 3.14''s zstd module Lobste Comment

12. Blinc: A declarative, reactive UI system with first-class state machines, spring physics animations, and GPU-accelerated rendering Lobste Comment

13. Tactical tornado is the new default Lobste Comment

14. The Universal Paperclip Clicker Lobste Comment

15. nix-run: run nix derivations without nix3 or flakes Lobste Comment

16. No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator Lobste Comment

17. voxtral.c: Pure C inference of Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model Lobste Comment

18. monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Lobste Comment

19. elfconv: AOT binary translator of Linux/ELF - WebAssembly Lobste Comment

20. Olimex HoT aims to be lightweight, easier-to-use alternative to Home Assistant Lobste Comment

21. The RCE that AMD won''t fix Lobste Comment

22. How to program computers (kOS) Lobste Comment

23. Django: profile memory usage with Memray Lobste Comment

24. Calling Lean Functions As Python Functions Lobste Comment

25. Vibe Coding Kills Open Source Lobste Comment

26. My AI Adoption Journey Lobste Comment

27. The LLM spectrum and responsible LLM use Lobste Comment

28. Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes Lobste Comment

29. Agentic Proof-Oriented Programming Lobste Comment

30. The Search for Meaning Through Collaboration and Code Lobste Comment

31. On the Promises of ''High-Assurance'' Cryptography Lobste Comment

32. Build Systems and Build Philosophy Lobste Comment

33. jujutsu v0.38.0 released Lobste Comment

34. (Un)portable defer in C Lobste Comment

35. Company as Code Lobste Comment

36. GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team Lobste Comment

37. CSRF protection in Phoenix with Sec-Fetch-Site Lobste Comment

38. Trust signals are broken Lobste Comment

39. Owning a 5M data center Lobste Comment

40. The Future Was Federated Lobste Comment

41. We are QA Engineers now Lobste Comment

42. FOSDEM 26 - My Hallway Track Takeaways Lobste Comment

43. Getting the main thing right Lobste Comment

44. So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it Lobste Comment

45. On craft and AI Lobste Comment

46. Rewriting pycparser with the help of an LLM Lobste Comment

47. Someone made a real life versoin of BMO with Ollama, a raspberry PI, and a 3d printer Lobste Comment

48. Slint 1.15 Released Lobste Comment

49. Customizable Nice Lobste Comment

50. Same Image, Different Score? Lobste Comment

51. Recent trends in the work of the Django Security Team Lobste Comment

52. IndieWebify.Me? Yes please Lobste Comment

53. Stack Overflow Launches (2008) Lobste Comment

54. Building a 24-bit Arcade CRT Display Adapter, From Scratch Lobste Comment

55. EarlyBinder and instantiating parameters Lobste Comment

56. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments Lobste Comment

57. A few CPU hardware bugs Lobste Comment

58. Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel Lobste Comment

59. Sukr: A minimal static site compiler in Rust with zero-JS output Lobste Comment

60. Xikipedia (potentially NSFW) Lobste Comment

61. Broken proofs and broken provers Lobste Comment

62. Introducing Bunny Database: The SQLite-Compatible Edge DB Lobste Comment

63. Personal AI is Already Here (And You’re Probably Not Ready) Lobste Comment

64. raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer Lobste Comment

65. How not to program in Dyalog APL Lobste Comment

66. Wirth''s Revenge Lobste Comment

67. writing an RSS reader in 80 lines of bash Lobste Comment

68. LFS/BLFS will no longer be developing the System V versions Lobste Comment

69. I miss thinking hard Lobste Comment

70. I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input Lobste Comment

71. Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here''s Why They Keep Coming Back Lobste Comment

72. Competence as Tragedy Lobste Comment

73. rust-dlopen: A dynamic linker fully implemented in Rust Lobste Comment

74. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location Lobste Comment

75. Why charging overnight doesn''t ruin the battery anymore Lobste Comment

76. What arguments was Python called with? Lobste Comment

77. 33 Hot Takes on Systems Programming Lobste Comment

78. Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx: Deal or no deal? Lobste Comment

79. html tables revisted Lobste Comment

80. Notation as a tool for thought: Wavelets in J Lobste Comment

81. Fitting Some Files Through A Stdout-Shaped Hole Lobste Comment

82. Taming the Flat AST: Ergonomics in the Age of Zero Allocations Lobste Comment

83. OSMC 2025 - Easy logging refinement with FlowG Lobste Comment

84. GDPR Enforcement Is Broken Lobste Comment

85. Expensively Quadratic: the LLM Agent Cost Curve Lobste Comment

86. java sucks (2000) Lobste Comment

87. Mechanical Sympathy (2014) Lobste Comment

88. The smallest build system Lobste Comment

89. Defining Safe Hardware Design Lobste Comment

90. Your CLAUDE.md is doing too much Lobste Comment

91. FOSDEM 2026 - Amber Lang - Easily write Bash with a transpiler Lobste Comment

92. Implementing the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore Lobste Comment

93. FLOPPINUX - An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy - 2025 Edition Lobste Comment

94. Your App Shouldn''t Have a Happy Path Lobste Comment

95. Millets: a practical memory-safety and thread-safety experiment Lobste Comment

96. Eigen: Building a Workspace Lobste Comment

97. Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys Lobste Comment

98. WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise Lobste Comment

99. What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? Lobste Comment

100. glang Lobste Comment

101. Writing an Async Runtime in Rust Lobste Comment

102. Plasma Effect Lobste Comment

103. Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions Lobste Comment

104. ReKindle Lobste Comment

105. How I Built QZ—and How Echelon Is Now Breaking It (2025) Lobste Comment

106. The Retro Web Lobste Comment

107. What''s your email setup? Lobste Comment

108. zig libc Lobste Comment

109. Stelvio: ship Python to AWS Lobste Comment

110. The largest number representable in 64 bits Lobste Comment

111. Game of Trees Hub''s web interface is live. And we need more subscribers Lobste Comment

112. Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons Lobste Comment

113. Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format! and friends Lobste Comment

114. Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong Lobste Comment

115. MaliciousCorgi: The Cute-Looking AI Extensions Leaking Code from 1.5 Million Developers Lobste Comment

116. uk-fuel-price-map: A web ui for the uk fuel price data Lobste Comment

117. My experience with vibe coding Lobste Comment

118. AI Coding Assistants Secretly Copying All Code to China Lobste Comment

119. Intro to CSTML (or: XML meets JSON) Lobste Comment

120. Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist Lobste Comment

121. Resurrecting Email Notifications on a Legacy NAS Lobste Comment

122. Apple’s MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong Lobste Comment

123. Trust in Ranking Lobste Comment

124. Purely Functional Games (2018) Lobste Comment

125. The Disconnected Git Workflow Lobste Comment

126. Lambda cube Lobste Comment

127. The concepts of forking Lobste Comment

128. TablaM Lobste Comment

129. Migrating to GTK3 – Re: Factor Lobste Comment

130. Ending 15 years of subprocess polling Lobste Comment

131. Selfish AI Lobste Comment

132. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice Lobste Comment

133. Vibe: Easy VM sandboxes for LLM agents on MacOS Lobste Comment

134. Notepad Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers Lobste Comment

135. Programming Principles in the Age of AI: DRY Lobste Comment

136. Resurrecting Crimsonland Lobste Comment

137. Inside Lodash’s Security Reset and Maintenance Reboot Lobste Comment

138. Yak Power-Shears: LLMs are pretty good at Emacs Lobste Comment

139. Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book Lobste Comment

140. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle Lobste Comment

141. My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml Lobste Comment

142. Audio on hp300 Lobste Comment

143. archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog Lobste Comment

144. This year, I will write a GUI for my Emacs clone Lobste Comment

145. Remarkable Pro Colors Lobste Comment

146. Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications Lobste Comment

147. Forget technical debt Lobste Comment

148. Converting floats to strings quickly Lobste Comment

149. Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire Lobste Comment

150. The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? Lobste Comment

151. Code signing Windows apps with Azure Artifact service Lobste Comment

152. Building Modern Databases with the FDAP Stack Lobste Comment

153. Ship Your Toolchain, Not Just Infrastructure Lobste Comment

154. A way to run Ansible 2.19 on old operating systems like Ubuntu 18.04 with working Apt Lobste Comment

155. CG/SQL - SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures Lobste Comment

156. Contracts in Nix Lobste Comment

157. Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix Lobste Comment

158. Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution Lobste Comment

159. git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI Lobste Comment

160. How Apple Hooks Fifty Thousand Methods Lobste Comment

161. In Praise of –dry-run Lobste Comment

162. This year in LLVM (2025) Lobste Comment

163. Outsourcing thinking Lobste Comment

164. Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware Lobste Comment

165. A 9M-parameter Mandarin pronunciation tutor Lobste Comment

166. Libreboot 26.01 “Magnanimous Max” released Lobste Comment

167. Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw Lobste Comment

168. MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids (1997) Lobste Comment

169. The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox Lobste Comment

170. Improving Unnesting of Complex Queries Lobste Comment

171. Faster package builds using Icecream and a Mac Lobste Comment

172. Manual programming Lobste Comment

173. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev Lobste Comment

174. Building a browser API in one shot Lobste Comment

175. Automatic programming Lobste Comment

176. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User Lobste Comment

177. qeep: Deep Learning framework in Go with Tensors, AutoGrad, and GPU acceleration Lobste Comment

178. OpenVMS 9.2-3 x64 now has local console on OPA0 Lobste Comment

179. Six Simple Sudoku Solvers: Prolog Lobste Comment

180. Simple Sudoku Solvers: Dyalog APL Lobste Comment

181. Trustworthy Technology Lobste Comment

182. FOSDEM 2026 - Live Streaming Lobste Comment

183. pydoit Lobste Comment

184. Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too Lobste Comment

185. Deploying a distributed system? A type system helps a lot Lobste Comment

186. Exploiting MediaTek''s Download Agent Lobste Comment

187. Some Data Should Be Code Lobste Comment

188. The State Of Garnet, 2026 Lobste Comment

189. When does technology pass from being a tool to being a crutch? (2009) Lobste Comment

190. The imminent risk of vibe coding Lobste Comment

191. Community Considerations Around AI Contributions Lobste Comment

192. Job Interview Questions for Embedded Systems Developers Lobste Comment

193. Notification underload Lobste Comment

194. Book of Verse Lobste Comment

195. Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now Lobste Comment

196. A Story of Computer-Use: Where We Started, Where We''re Headed Lobste Comment

197. Amdahl’s law and agentic coding Lobste Comment

198. Subtypes and status-dependent data: pure relational approach Lobste Comment

199. Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees Lobste Comment

200. Paty: The most human-like AI agent you''ll ever use Lobste Comment

201. Announcing skills on Tessl: the package manager for agent skills Lobste Comment

202. Building Breakwater with AI Lobste Comment

203. Full AI Suite for LispE: llama.cpp, tiktoken, MLX and PyTorch Lobste Comment

204. Software Pump and Dump Lobste Comment

205. cli-stash: TUI tool to save and recall shell commands with fuzzy search Lobste Comment

206. Coding Is When We’re Least Productive Lobste Comment

207. Email experiments: filtering out external images Lobste Comment

208. I can''t tell if I''m experiencing or simulating experiencing Lobste Comment

209. How AI Impacts Skill Formation Lobste Comment

210. ClojureWasmBeta Lobste Comment

211. Backseat Software Lobste Comment

212. GNU Units Lobste Comment

213. Google Disrupts Large Residential Proxy Network Lobste Comment

214. The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers Lobste Comment

215. No, Cloudflare''s Matrix server isn''t an earnest project Lobste Comment

216. 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective Lobste Comment

217. Litestream Writable VFS Lobste Comment

218. Colorblind-Friendly Design Guide for Developing Apps Lobste Comment

219. Building Docs Like a Product Lobste Comment

220. Solving Fossil''s ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters Lobste Comment

221. Gadgetbridge Lobste Comment

222. crazy-jumpman Lobste Comment

223. Sentry releases new CLI for developers and agents Lobste Comment

224. Pagelove: Building a better web — for humans and machines Lobste Comment

225. Category Theory and Inclusivity Lobste Comment

226. MicroPythonOS - The Ultimate MicroPython Operating System Lobste Comment

227. Beta testing of WebUSBUnpinner - a tool to investigate platform worker''s privacy and rights violations Lobste Comment

228. Opinionated GitHub Action for generating high-quality SBOMs Lobste Comment

229. How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications Lobste Comment

230. Introducing Fluux Messenger: A Modern XMPP Client Born from a Holiday Coding Session Lobste Comment

231. AtomVM 2025 Year in Review Lobste Comment

232. Narwhal: an extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications Lobste Comment

233. History of Greenfield (in-browser Wayland compositor) Lobste Comment

234. Looi — A Minimal, Customizable New Tab Page for Firefox, Chrome(with Widgets & GitHub Sync) Lobste Comment

235. Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI Lobste Comment

236. Zig and the MN Supply Chain Problem Lobste Comment

237. Phantom Obligation Lobste Comment

238. 9front "GEFS SERVICE PACK 1" released Lobste Comment

239. 30 years of ReactOS Lobste Comment

240. A simple HTTP tunnel ngrok alternative (2024) Lobste Comment

241. ARM MTE Performance in Practice (Extended Version) Lobste Comment

242. Bf-Tree A Modern Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index Lobste Comment

243. Why you should probably tell your audience what your blog posts are about as early as possible Lobste Comment

244. Some notes on starting to use Django Lobste Comment

245. Can AI companies become profitable? Lobste Comment

246. Isolation & Permissiveness of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB Lobste Comment

247. I still don''t understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily Lobste Comment

248. Why I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0 Lobste Comment

249. "a bootstrap chain for NixOS which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed" Lobste Comment

250. Breaking Thunderbird Free from Linux Package Lag Lobste Comment

251. One Human One Agent One Browser From Scratch Lobste Comment

252. Ariel OS is a library operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things, written in Rust Lobste Comment

253. Code review is dead, long live code review Lobste Comment

254. Accessing LUKS and ext4 drives from macOS Lobste Comment

255. We read the JSON Schema spec so you don''t have to Lobste Comment

256. There and Back Again: From Quickstrom to Bombadil Lobste Comment

257. make.ts Lobste Comment

258. Data Consistency: transactions, delays and long-running processes Lobste Comment

259. UEFIGame: "Win - Boot, Lose - Shutdown" Lobste Comment

260. Neocities Is Blocked by Bing Lobste Comment

261. Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail Lobste Comment

262. Taming Claude Code Lobste Comment

263. The Rise of Sanityware Lobste Comment

264. Use “\\A...\\z”, not “...” with Python regular expressions Lobste Comment

265. MonkeyBall Online Lobste Comment

266. lichess.el Lobste Comment

267. Barev - XMPP flavoured p2p protocol Lobste Comment

268. A "Pure Go" Linux environment, written by Claude Lobste Comment

269. zlib-rs: a stable API and 30M downloads Lobste Comment

270. It is incorrect to “normalize” // in HTTP URL paths Lobste Comment

271. Blocking Claude Lobste Comment

272. After two years of vibecoding, I''m back to writing by hand Lobste Comment

273. Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026) Lobste Comment

274. I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software Lobste Comment

275. Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026 Lobste Comment

276. Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn''t Lobste Comment

277. Gilfoyle. An SRE Agent that finds truth while you''re still guessing Lobste Comment

278. You can''t handle the Buddhabrot! (2024) Lobste Comment

279. Xfwl4: The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor Lobste Comment

280. t: a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq Lobste Comment

281. Fuzzing Lua in OSS-Fuzz Lobste Comment

282. The Ruby Users Forum Is Now Live Lobste Comment

283. The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management Lobste Comment

284. Bugs Apple Loves Lobste Comment

285. Places to Telnet Lobste Comment

286. I made my own git Lobste Comment

287. Spinning around: Please don''t Lobste Comment

288. But how to get to that European cloud? Lobste Comment

289. The rise and fall of Scala Lobste Comment

290. postmarketOS in 2026-01: monthly blog post reboot Lobste Comment

291. Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself Lobste Comment

292. For the love of Troff (2020) Lobste Comment

293. Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix Lobste Comment

294. Brainfuck optimization strategies (2015) Lobste Comment

295. Writing a Lisp JIT Interpreter with GraalVM Truffle Lobste Comment

296. Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs Lobste Comment

297. Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models Lobste Comment

298. prolog-blog-engine: blog engine in pure Prolog. 0 dependencies, Markdown, server Lobste Comment

299. sra-archive: Very simple random access archive format Lobste Comment

300. Microsoft obeys court orders to provide Windows BitLocker recovery keys Lobste Comment