The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  

  ruby
  

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• Xz format inadequate for general use
  

  unix
  

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• Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain
  

  email practices
  

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• I Know When You're Vibe Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Nullable vs nullable in C#
  

  dotnet
  

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• Developing an alt text button for images on my website
  

  css web
  

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• Stable, Mutable References
  

  plt
  

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• Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude
  

  cryptography
  

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• Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment
  

  databases plt
  

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• Inside Windows 3
  

  historical osdev windows
  

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• Prediction-Encoded Pixels: a tiny yet powerful pixel art compression method
  

  graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
  

  web
  

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• Why I Read Technical Books
  

  practices
  

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• ghrc.io Appears to be Malicious
  

  devops security virtualization
  

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• What are OKLCH colors?
  

  design
  

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• Who's Afraid of a Hard Page Load?
  

  web
  

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• I Don't Like Imports
  

  practices rust
  

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• Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs
  

  networking
  

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• Which Programming Language Should I Teach First?
  

  education
  

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• Introducing Zod Codecs
  

  javascript release
  

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• macOS dotfiles should not go in ~/Library/Application Support
  

  mac unix
  

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• Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
  

  android privacy
  

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• The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux
  

  linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
  

  law networking
  

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• Comparing nitro to runit
  

  unix
  

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• I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material
  

  rant security
  

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• Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix
  

  nix
  

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• anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code
  

  web
  

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• Line scan camera image processing (train photography)
  

  art graphics math
  

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• SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better
  

  databases
  

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• Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  

  python web
  

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• io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
  

  linux rust
  

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• AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
  

  science vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Big O
  

  compsci
  

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• Understanding Jujutsu bookmarks
  

  vcs
  

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• Materialized views are obviously useful
  

  databases
  

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• rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust
  

  compilers rust
  

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• The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare
  

  javascript networking rust web
  

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• bubbletea-rs: A rust implementation of Bubbletea
  

  rust
  

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• RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
  

  programming
  

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• nitro: a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  

  unix
  

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• To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
  

  practices
  

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• Optimizing our way through Metroid
  

  games testing
  

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• Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
  

  distributed
  

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• Retry Loop Retry
  

  zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What the hell is going on right now?
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Matklad
  

  person
  

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• I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
  

  zig
  

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• The issue of anti-cheat on Linux
  

  games linux
  

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• Go is still not good
  

  go rant
  

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• Ledger (2023)
  

  finance unix visualization
  

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• Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
  

  linux
  

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• No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT
  

  web
  

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• The Baby Paradox in Haskell
  

  formalmethods haskell
  

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• Hyperclay | Single File HTML APPS
  

  web
  

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• A New Rust Packaging Model
  

  nix rust
  

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• Why do software developers love complexity?
  

  practices
  

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