The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
  

  reversing
  

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• Godot 4.5 release
  

  games release
  

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• You Want Technology With Warts
  

  programming
  

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• Swift 6.2 Released
  

  swift
  

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• Java 25
  

  java release
  

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• Introducing the Constexpr Debugger
  

  c++ debugging
  

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• ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised
  

  security
  

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• How I Use AI
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Smalltalk and Lambda Calculus
  

  plt
  

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• Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2509
  

  games programming release reversing
  

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• WebKit Features in Safari 26.0
  

  browsers ios mac release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
  

  reversing
  

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• The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Rating 26 years of Java changes
  

  historical java
  

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• Ghostty 1.2.0 - Release Notes
  

  release
  

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• Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually
  

  ml plt
  

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• The E Language
  

  plt
  

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• Rye Tables vs Python/Pandas: A Different Way to Wrangle Data
  

  programming python
  

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• asciinema 3.0 adds live streaming and local-first recording
  

  release
  

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• Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Varnish: 8.0.0 with bonus project news
  

  distributed release
  

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• React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
  

  javascript web
  

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• Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gleam is my new obsession
  

  gleam
  

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• Debian 12 installer promotes US/* time zones
  

  databases devops linux
  

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• a few notes on ratelimiting
  

  security
  

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• Redox Development Priorities for 2025/26
  

  osdev
  

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• The Many Broken Feeds
  

  web
  

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• The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms
  

  performance rust
  

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• Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Weird CPU architectures: the MOV only CPU
  

  hardware
  

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• Basics of Equality Saturation
  

  compilers plt python
  

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• Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
  

  osdev zig
  

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• Pass: Unix Password Manager
  

  linux security
  

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• Diesel 2.3.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design
  

  programming
  

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• AI Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• What Happens After I'm Gone? The Future of the Online Me
  

  philosophy web
  

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• From 19k to 4.2M events/sec: story of a SQLite query optimisation
  

  databases performance
  

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• Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
  

  ai satire
  

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• Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
  

  c++
  

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• oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer
  

  go
  

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• Phishing campaign targeting crates.io users
  

  rust security
  

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• My first CVE
  

  security
  

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• RIP pthread_cancel
  

  networking unix
  

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• Improving state machine code generation
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Declarative music - 2 Minute Deep Acid in Strudel (from scratch)
  

  video art editors
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Susam
  

  interview person
  

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• Kefir 0.5.0 Release Announcement (C17/C23 compiler)
  

  c compilers release
  

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• A positive lambda: '+[]{}'
  

  c++
  

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• FatNums: An Alternate Representation for School Arithmetic (2020)
  

  education math
  

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• Program verification is not all-or-nothing
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Classic GTK1 GUI Library for Windows, Linux and MacOS
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Fun Friday Question: What Easter Eggs have you Found or Made?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones
  

  databases devops linux
  

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• Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide
  

  go
  

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• Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
  

  ai
  

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• httpjail: monitor and restrict HTTP/HTTPS requests from processes
  

  networking vibecoding
  

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