The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
  

  pdf ruby
  

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• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
  

  debugging windows
  

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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  

  satire security
  

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• Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
  

  c++ distributed go
  

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• Configuration files are user interfaces
  

  api programming
  

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• Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan wrote APL for Music
  

  apl person
  

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• FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
  

  freebsd illumos
  

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• Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine
  

  video c++
  

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• We have outgrown the Process model
  

  osdev
  

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• The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2023)
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nick Wellnhofer steps down as libxml2 maintainer
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Introducing GNOME 49, “Brescia”
  

  linux release
  

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• KDE is now my favorite desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.90.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Steering Committee Retrospective
  

  culture nix
  

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• Shai-Hulud: The novel self-replicating worm infecting hundreds of NPM packages
  

  javascript security
  

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• ZeroFS: 9P, NFS, or block devices on top of S3-compatible storage
  

  distributed
  

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• How can we sandbox our development machines?
  

  ask security
  

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• Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
  

  person
  

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• Making Printed Circuit Boards with Wild Clay
  

  hardware
  

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• Access logging in 2025
  

  practices privacy web
  

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• Pocket Casts, You Altered The Deal, So I Will Alter Your App
  

  android
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
  

  linux rust
  

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• Wasm 3.0 Completed
  

  release wasm
  

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• what the go proxy has been doing
  

  go
  

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• The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation
  

  reversing
  

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• Our AI policy vs code of conduct and vs reality
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
  

  pdf compsci
  

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• Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes
  

  video math visualization
  

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• How to implement the Outbox pattern in Go and Postgres
  

  go
  

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• PureVPN IPv6 leak
  

  privacy security
  

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• Arrival Radar Air Traffic Control Game
  

  show games
  

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• A Dumb Introduction to z3
  

  formalmethods plt
  

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• Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem
  

  devops distributed
  

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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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