The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
  

  law reversing
  

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• How Perplexity is Evading Anti-crawling Measures
  

  networking
  

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• The Q Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• More retrocomputing, less nostalgia
  

  philosophy retrocomputing
  

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• The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
  

  ai rant satire
  

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• So you want to parse a PDF?
  

  programming
  

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• Maybe the Fastest Disk Usage Program on macOS
  

  mac performance
  

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• How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
  

  browsers performance
  

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• Why Semantic HTML Still Matters
  

  web
  

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• The Generativity Pattern in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• HTMX is hard so let's get it right
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu For Busy Devs, Part 2: "How Do I...?"
  

  vcs
  

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• How to help someone use a computer
  

  a11y education
  

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• Wayback 0.2 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Vibe code is legacy code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Long Term Support
  

  databases release
  

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• The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• Reflections on Matrix criticism over the last week
  

  video distributed
  

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• Less Glue, More Product: Why Elixir Shrinks Architectural Complexity
  

  distributed elixir erlang
  

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• This Month in Ladybird - July 2025
  

  browsers
  

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• What Declarative Languages Are (2013)
  

  plt
  

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• Ramblings
  

  practices
  

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• Schematra: Sinatra inspired Chicken web framework
  

  lisp web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• You might not need tmux
  

  unix
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Icefox
  

  interview person
  

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• It's rude to show AI output to people
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How NixOS is built
  

  nix
  

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• agendafs: A filesystem for syncing notes to your calendar
  

  show c unix
  

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• If Odin Had Macros
  

  plt
  

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• Our first outage from LLM-written code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  satire vcs
  

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• Local-first search. A tale of frustrated dreams, utopian user experiences and calculated tradeoffs
  

  databases javascript performance
  

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• 6 Weeks of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
  

  linux security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• always bet on text (2014)
  

  programming
  

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• The Hype is the Product
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Sync primitives are Functionally Complete
  

  api
  

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• I built my blog with C preprocessor macros
  

  c web
  

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• The Math Is Haunted
  

  math
  

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• Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot
  

  go
  

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• 2000 words about arrays and tables
  

  compsci rant
  

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• QUIC for the kernel
  

  linux networking
  

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• The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1
  

  programming
  

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• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Emacs: The MacOS Bug
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
  

  plt
  

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