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Cloudflare Collaborates With Leading Browsers to Develop a Privacy-First Protocol For the Global Internet

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Cloudflare is working with major browsers to create a new privacy-first protocol for the global internet.

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Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era

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Mozilla and Cloudflare are collaborating with other browsers on a new initiative to combat bot abuse while preserving user privacy, proposing a rate-limiting approach with anonymous vouching instead of invasive verification methods like CAPTCHAs or Web Environment Integrity.

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Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2026

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This article benchmarks the performance of various WebAssembly runtimes (WAVM, WasmEdge, WAMR, wasm2c, Wasmer, Wasmtime, Wazero, Node, Bun) using the libsodium crypto library, comparing versions from 2024, 2025, and 2026. Results show that WAVM, WasmEdge (with AOT), WAMR (AOT), wasm2c, Wasmer, and Wasmtime achieve near-native performance for CPU-bound crypto, while wide_arithmetic instructions benefit crypto code.

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Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore

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Filippo Valsorda argues that LLMs have made vulnerability reports no longer special, as AI can now generate insights that were once exclusive to human researchers, shifting the bottleneck from discovery to triage.

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Record type inference for dummies

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The article explains the basics of type inference for anonymous records in statically typed languages, using type theory notation and Haskell as the implementation language.

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Implementing a Custom Query Language with Python and Apache Spark

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A technical guide on implementing a custom query language (EHQL) using Python and Apache Spark, with a focus on grammar definition and parsing using Lark.

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FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works

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LispE is a compact Lisp dialect by NAVER that combines functional and array language features, with AI libraries for PyTorch, GGUF, MLX, and tiktoken, and a browser-based test environment.

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Please keep code descriptions simple

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A developer argues that code descriptions, commit messages, and merge request descriptions should be kept simple and focus on explaining why changes were made, not what, to improve accessibility for reviewers with attention difficulties.

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It’s Only When You Look Back

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A personal reflection on 25 years of maintaining a website, reviewing the technological transformations from early 8-bit computers to modern high-performance systems.

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How Long Does That Response Take... For Real?

Lobsters Hottest · 14h ago Cached

Explains why memcached's internal response time metrics are misleading and recommends client-side sampling for accurate measurement of total round-trip time.

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Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web

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The article recounts the history of Matt's Script Archive, a collection of widely used but insecure CGI scripts from the 1990s that popularized web forums and guestbooks, highlighting the security flaws and the community's response.

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The Low-Tech AI Of Elden Ring

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A technical analysis of Elden Ring's AI system reveals it uses a low-tech pushdown automaton implemented in Havok Script, contrasting with more complex modern AI approaches.

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A tale of two path separators (2021)

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Explains how macOS handles two path separators (slashes and colons) due to its dual heritage from classic Mac OS and NeXTSTEP, and how this leads to files appearing with slashes in Finder but colons in the terminal.

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A fully local voice assistant setup

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A guide to building a fully local voice assistant using Platypush on a Raspberry Pi, covering hotword detection, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and home automation integration.

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The curious history the invention of the CMD+K quick switcher

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This article explores the history and invention of the CMD+K quick switcher, a ubiquitous keyboard shortcut used in many applications for fast navigation.

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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

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A tribute to Tony Krueger, the Microsoft developer who pioneered the red and green squiggly underlines for spell and grammar checking in Word, a feature now ubiquitous in word processors.

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Reclassifying DMARC ARC as historic

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This IETF draft recommends reclassifying the ARC (Authenticated Received Chain) protocol as historic, concluding its experiment and pointing to DKIM2 as a successor.

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Rhombus v1.0: A Racket flavored language with syntax

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Rhombus v1.0, a new extensible programming language built on Racket with conventional syntax and powerful macro facilities, has been released.

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Network shares: still talking about them in 2026

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The article discusses the ongoing pain point of network shares in KDE on Linux in 2026, particularly for non-KDE applications that do not use KDE's open/save dialog, creating a fragmented user experience.

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Xfwl4's First Preview Release

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Brian Tarricone announces the first preview release of xfwl4, Xfce's Wayland compositor, after six months of work, detailing known missing features and future plans.

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