1. Nullable vs nullable in C# Lobste Comment

2. Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude Lobste Comment

3. Sharing is Scaring: Why is Cloud File-Sharing Hard? Lobste Comment

4. Making Software: What is a color space? Lobste Comment

5. macOS dotfiles should not go in /Library/Application Support Lobste Comment

6. The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux Lobste Comment

7. How much power does gzip save on IoT web access? Lobste Comment

8. teletext in north america Lobste Comment

9. What are OKLCH colors? Lobste Comment

10. Who''s Afraid of a Hard Page Load? Lobste Comment

11. Tag Suggestion: scraping Lobste Comment

12. ElasticSearch API compatibility FlowG Lobste Comment

13. Why I Read Technical Books Lobste Comment

14. About containers and VMs Lobste Comment

15. Once Upon a Pipe in the West: A working adapter from HDMI to Gardena jhauser.de Lobste Comment

16. Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don''t like me Lobste Comment

17. Mario 64 wastes so much memory Lobste Comment

18. Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (2007) Lobste Comment

19. Linear scan with lifetime holes Lobste Comment

20. Don''t pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs Lobste Comment

21. ghrc.io Appears to be Malicious Lobste Comment

22. Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits Lobste Comment

23. I Don''t Like Imports Lobste Comment

24. Automating Pre-Push Checks with Jujutsu Lobste Comment

25. anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code Lobste Comment

26. kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library Lobste Comment

27. frogmouth: A Markdown browser for your terminal Lobste Comment

28. Update on my Racket exit Lobste Comment

29. Introducing Zod Codecs Lobste Comment

30. Which Programming Language Should I Teach First? Lobste Comment

31. True names matter in C Lobste Comment

32. SQLite (with WAL) doesn''t do fsync on each commit under default settings Lobste Comment

33. Comparing nitro to runit Lobste Comment

34. Good Vibes: A Claude-Code Case-Study Lobste Comment

35. Interview with Jon Corbett: Cree#, Ancestral Code, and an Indigenous Computing Framework Lobste Comment

36. SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better Lobste Comment

37. Coinbase CEO fired engineers who refused to use AI Lobste Comment

38. A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler Lobste Comment

39. A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website Lobste Comment

40. The Great Giana Sisters (COMMODORE 64) Lobste Comment

41. Explanation of the Linux-Kernel Memory Consistency Model Lobste Comment

42. Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix Lobste Comment

43. how to build a coding agent Lobste Comment

44. seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp Lobste Comment

45. Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata Lobste Comment

46. I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material Lobste Comment

47. Line scan camera image processing (train photography) Lobste Comment

48. Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU Lobste Comment

49. debdelta Lobste Comment

50. TaMaRa: Towards a Triple Modular Redundancy Pass for Yosys Lobste Comment

51. WebR - R in the Browser Lobste Comment

52. Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust Lobste Comment

53. microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython Lobste Comment

54. SXO :: Optimized Server-Side JSX. Build Simple. Build Fast Lobste Comment

55. Big O Lobste Comment

56. Retry Loop Retry Lobste Comment

57. io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server Lobste Comment

58. AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment Lobste Comment

59. AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets Lobste Comment

60. rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust Lobste Comment

61. RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode Lobste Comment

62. Adventures in State Space Lobste Comment

63. Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs Lobste Comment

64. Developer''s block Lobste Comment

65. Understanding Jujutsu bookmarks Lobste Comment

66. Materialized views are obviously useful Lobste Comment

67. An Introduction to Trellis-Owl (1986) Lobste Comment

68. The 9 Go test assertions I use (and why) Lobste Comment

69. On the use of LLM assistants for kernel development Lobste Comment

70. No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT Lobste Comment

71. A string formatting library in 65 lines of C Lobste Comment

72. Why Was Apache Kafka Created? Lobste Comment

73. nitro: a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor Lobste Comment

74. The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare Lobste Comment

75. Optimizing our way through Metroid Lobste Comment

76. w65c832: W65C832 (32 bit 6502) in an FPGA Lobste Comment

77. bubbletea-rs: A rust implementation of Bubbletea Lobste Comment

78. Have smart glasses finally hit an inflection point? Lobste Comment

79. Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Lobste Comment

80. Go is still not good Lobste Comment

81. To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head Lobste Comment

82. Lobsters Interview with Matklad Lobste Comment

83. I''m too dumb for Zig''s new IO interface Lobste Comment

84. What about using rel"share-url" to expose sharing intents? Lobste Comment

85. Emacs is violent passion Lobste Comment

86. An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths Lobste Comment

87. Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages Lobste Comment

88. Growing the Java Language Lobste Comment

89. What the hell is going on right now? Lobste Comment

90. The Baby Paradox in Haskell Lobste Comment

91. Introducing Forth poems Lobste Comment

92. The issue of anti-cheat on Linux Lobste Comment

93. Understanding Go Error Types: Pointer vs. Value Lobste Comment

94. The Interim Computer Museum Lobste Comment

95. Agent Inference - A user-agent / browser quiz Lobste Comment

96. grug.design Lobste Comment

97. Why do software developers love complexity? Lobste Comment

98. Using Common Lisp from inside the Browser Lobste Comment

99. Bitnami Deprecation Lobste Comment

100. On Benchmarking MiniZinc and the LinkedIn Queens Problem - zayenz.se Lobste Comment

101. the core of rust Lobste Comment

102. Discrete optimization for on-call scheduling (2021) Lobste Comment

103. adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat Lobste Comment

104. Ledger. (2023) Lobste Comment

105. AUR Chaos malware: an analysis Lobste Comment

106. Fun and weirdness with SSDs Lobste Comment

107. My other email client is a daemon Lobste Comment

108. Hyperclay Single File HTML APPS Lobste Comment

109. Tilus is a tile-level kernel programming language, implemented in Python Lobste Comment

110. A New Rust Packaging Model Lobste Comment

111. NUMA Is the New Network: How Per-Socket Memory Models Are Reshaping Microservice Placement Lobste Comment

112. D4d4 Lobste Comment

113. A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification Lobste Comment

114. The Month of AI Bugs 2025 Lobste Comment

115. Faster loading of credentials from Bitwarden using rbw Lobste Comment

116. Building GoReleaser: from shell script to paid product Carlos Becker Lobste Comment

117. NOPE: Strengthening Domain Authentication (RWC 2025) Lobste Comment

118. Optique: Type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript Lobste Comment

119. Slice: SAST LLM Interprocedural Context Extractor Lobste Comment

120. Why does my regular expression work in X but not in Y? Lobste Comment

121. Let jj absorb help you keep a clean commit history Lobste Comment

122. NASA’s 10 Rules for Safety-Critical Code Lobste Comment

123. Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? Lobste Comment

124. Default musl allocator considered harmful (to performance) Lobste Comment

125. Announcing Proxy 4: The Next Leap in C Polymorphism Lobste Comment

126. Zig 0.15.1 Release Notes Lobste Comment

127. L2AW theorem Lobste Comment

128. A proposal for inline LLM instructions in HTML based on llms.txt Lobste Comment

129. Container-aware GOMAXPROCS Lobste Comment

130. Const Trait Counterexamples Lobste Comment

131. Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine Lobste Comment

132. Why is this hard? Lobste Comment

133. Building a Regex Engine Lobste Comment

134. Tag-based logging Lobste Comment

135. Code Review Can Be Better Lobste Comment

136. Privacy-Preserving Age Verification—and Its Limitations Lobste Comment

137. Zed for Windows: What''s Taking So Long? Lobste Comment

138. Why is my device a touchpad and a mouse and a keyboard? Lobste Comment

139. Monad annoyance Lobste Comment

140. Some Tricks for List Manipulation Lobste Comment

141. Type-machine Lobste Comment

142. The long season of langdev Lobste Comment

143. Monoid-augmented FIFOs, deamortised Lobste Comment

144. Git RFC: Introduce jj-inspired git-history(1) command for easy history editing Lobste Comment

145. maybenot: a framework for traffic analysis defenses Lobste Comment

146. Change to Custom Directory Alias With Completions in Zsh (2021) Lobste Comment

147. Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit · emersion Lobste Comment

148. Drunken Bishop (2023) Lobste Comment

149. Jovial Reverse Polish Notation Calculators Lobste Comment

150. SmallJS Lobste Comment

151. CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox Lobste Comment

152. Jepsen 18: Serializable Mom by Kyle Kingsbury Lobste Comment

153. Emacs as your video-trimming tool Lobste Comment

154. Language Models as Thespians Lobste Comment

155. Without the futex, it''s futile Lobste Comment

156. The Lawnmower IRC Server Lobste Comment

157. Making a floppy disk from scratch Lobste Comment

158. How To Write About Software Lobste Comment

159. Reserve First Lobste Comment

160. The Sinking of the Itanic: free ebook Lobste Comment

161. Prime Number Grid Lobste Comment

162. Left to Right Programming Lobste Comment

163. The Multimedia Renaissance Lobste Comment

164. In-memory Filesystems in Rust Lobste Comment

165. Why developers question everything Lobste Comment

166. Using Nix as a library Lobste Comment

167. Persistent Risk: XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images Lobste Comment

168. AI is a mass-delusion event Lobste Comment

169. The peculiar case of Japanese web design Lobste Comment

170. System Guide: Five sample PC builds, from 500 to 5,000 Lobste Comment

171. Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention Lobste Comment

172. Intel Outside: Hacking every Intel employee and various internal websites Lobste Comment

173. Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks (on the Python Package Index) Lobste Comment

174. Google is killing the open web Lobste Comment

175. Phrack 72 Lobste Comment

176. Trap: Autoregressive Transformers in APL Lobste Comment

177. Making Impossible States Impossible: Type-Safe Domain Modeling with Functional Dependency Injection Lobste Comment

178. How Indirect Prompt Injections Exploit Context, Format, and Salience Lobste Comment

179. Introducing Action Native Push Lobste Comment

180. How to ingest 1 billion rows per second in ClickHouse Lobste Comment

181. Treetable: a case-stud in q Lobste Comment

182. Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL Lobste Comment

183. Atmos Lobste Comment

184. Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects Lobste Comment

185. Kagi reached 50k users in June Lobste Comment

186. GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming Lobste Comment

187. AsciiDots: an esolang based on ascii art Lobste Comment

188. Preventing NAPTR Spam Lobste Comment

189. ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018) Lobste Comment

190. All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs Lobste Comment

191. This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad Lobste Comment

192. BusyBee: Lightweight and observable background processing for .NET applications Lobste Comment

193. We Needed Better Cloud Storage for Python so We Built Obstore Lobste Comment

194. NixOS & Flakes Book Lobste Comment

195. A short statistical reasoning test Lobste Comment

196. Clojure core.async Flow Guide Lobste Comment

197. Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity Lobste Comment

198. A Trick To Use mkMerge at The Top Level of a NixOS module Lobste Comment

199. I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File Lobste Comment

200. wrkflw: Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally Lobste Comment

201. Recto — a truly 2D language Lobste Comment

202. SystemD Service Hardening Lobste Comment

203. Why I prefer rST [reStructuredText] to Markdown Lobste Comment

204. The System Inside the System Lobste Comment

205. Customizing Lisp REPLs Lobste Comment

206. Functional Programming HOWTO Lobste Comment

207. Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning Lobste Comment

208. Consensus algorithms at scale (2020) Lobste Comment

209. “Email is Easy” email address quiz Lobste Comment

210. wifiscan-rs - A cross-platform Rust crate for scanning Wi-Fi networks Lobste Comment

211. A brief consideration of input shapes (fuzzing) Lobste Comment

212. Beyond Booleans: Propositions in Lean Lobste Comment

213. Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 Lobste Comment

214. Who does your assistant serve? Lobste Comment

215. Careful Communication Lobste Comment

216. LLMs aren’t world models Lobste Comment

217. Please don''t promote Wayland Lobste Comment

218. A programmer''s field guide to assertions Lobste Comment

219. The Tech Behind Geotoy Lobste Comment

220. passive microwave repeaters Lobste Comment

221. How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable Lobste Comment

222. I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips (2014) Lobste Comment

223. eBPF Networking Techniques - Packet Redirection (2023) Lobste Comment

224. The Enterprise Experience Lobste Comment

225. Everything I know about good system design Lobste Comment

226. Dev Compass - Programming Philosophy Quiz Lobste Comment

227. Dyna — Logic Programming for Machine Learning Lobste Comment

228. Ambient age verification Lobste Comment

229. Is Gleam production ready? Lobste Comment

230. Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way Lobste Comment

231. Various desktop Linux tips for newbies Lobste Comment

232. A Better Vocabulary for Testing Lobste Comment

233. Faceclick: A lightweight Emoji picker with keyword search Lobste Comment

234. libxml2 Maintainer Ends Embargoed Vulnerability Reports, Citing Unsustainable Burden Lobste Comment

235. Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects Lobste Comment

236. Dirty Coding Tricks Lobste Comment

237. Lobsters Blog Carnival Lobste Comment

238. Understanding Diffie-Hellman with Clocks Lobste Comment

239. Happy 100000th birthday, Debian Lobste Comment

240. Maintainers of Last Resort Lobste Comment

241. Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs Lobste Comment

242. proposal: mark/punish ai imagery Lobste Comment

243. There is a new short domain name for PuTTY Lobste Comment

244. Modernizing Standard ML of New Jersey: A Status Report (2023) Lobste Comment

245. Payment Processor Fun 2025: Making Your Own MSP Lobste Comment

246. The future of large files in Git is Git Lobste Comment

247. The Futzing Fraction Lobste Comment

248. I''m building a media server out of leftover PC parts and a 3D printed case Lobste Comment

249. In-depth analysis on Valorant''s Guarded Regions Lobste Comment

250. Typechecker Zoo Lobste Comment

251. Your jailbroken iDevices may be able to run macOS natively Lobste Comment

252. is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? Lobste Comment

253. Single Sign On for Furries Lobste Comment

254. Bullfrog in the Dungeon Lobste Comment

255. Vaultwarden now supports SSO with OIDC Lobste Comment

256. Nesting Git Repositories Lobste Comment

257. Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk Lobste Comment

258. Development Journey on Game Decompilation Using AI Lobste Comment

259. An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions Lobste Comment

260. Proposal: ban tedunangst.com Lobste Comment

261. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data (2009) Lobste Comment

262. GitHub Actions safe_sleep.sh Lobste Comment

263. Anaphoric Macros Lobste Comment

264. slog is aptly named Lobste Comment

265. Ed25519 Support in Chrome: Making the Web Faster and Safer Lobste Comment

266. Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info Lobste Comment

267. Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my Primary Language Lobste Comment

268. Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry Lobste Comment

269. We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application Lobste Comment

270. NaN-Propagation: A Novel Method for Sparsity Detection in Black-Box Computational Functions Lobste Comment

271. History of improvements in VACUUM in PostgreSQL (2023) Lobste Comment

272. what is the go proxy even doing? Lobste Comment

273. Syncing with Postgres: Logical Replication vs. ETL Lobste Comment

274. Mixbox - Natural Color Mixing Based on Real Pigments (2021) Lobste Comment

275. Project Hydra: Improving state resolution in Matrix Lobste Comment

276. Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto Lobste Comment

277. Jujutsu with Radicle Lobste Comment

278. Placing Arguments Lobste Comment

279. Fun with finite state transducers Lobste Comment

280. Mellea is a library for writing generative programs Lobste Comment

281. Why LLMs Can''t Really Build Software - Zed Blog Lobste Comment

282. Enforce Proper direnv Setup Lobste Comment

283. How to Build Abstractions in Rust Applications (2023) Lobste Comment

284. LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications Lobste Comment

285. How to rig elections Lobste Comment

286. Open Source Sustainability for fastn - FifthTry Launches Rust Consultancy Lobste Comment

287. Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode Lobste Comment

288. Emacs 30.2 is here Lobste Comment

289. Optimizing Your Debian 13 Desktop Lobste Comment

290. Taming the Beast: Comparing Jsonnet, Dhall, Cue Lobste Comment

291. Liveness analysis with Datalog Lobste Comment

292. Cross-Site Request Forgery Lobste Comment

293. NGINX Introduces Native Support for ACME Protocol Lobste Comment

294. Modifying Other People''s Software Lobste Comment

295. All Hyped Up for HyperCard: Further Adventures with an Apple Legacy Format Lobste Comment

296. MadeYouReset: Turning HTTP/2 Server Against Itself Lobste Comment

297. Our Paint A Natural Painting Program Lobste Comment

298. nixidy: Kubernetes GitOps with nix and Argo CD Lobste Comment

299. That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll") Lobste Comment

300. Plan 9 Desktop Guide Lobste Comment