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

• Senior devs aren't just faster, they can dodge problems juniors are forced to solve
  

  programming
  

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• GNU Parallel Examples
  

  performance
  

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• Static types are for perfectionists
  

  philosophy
  

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• A Ledger In PostgreSQL Is Fast
  

  databases
  

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• Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022)
  

  rust
  

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• CHERIoT: The last ten years
  

  hardware historical security
  

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• GNU Taler v1.0 released
  

  finance
  

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• New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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• O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
  

  privacy security
  

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• My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
  

  design
  

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• Mutexes Are Faster Than Spinlocks (2020)
  

  performance
  

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• Detecting malicious Unicode
  

  devops
  

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

• Stack overflow is almost dead
  

  culture programming
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.15
  

  linux
  

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• I don’t like NumPy
  

  python
  

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• Evolution of Rust compiler errors
  

  compilers rust
  

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• A leap year check in three instructions
  

  c compilers formalmethods
  

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• Teal: a statically-typed dialect of Lua
  

  lua
  

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• Rust 1.0, ten years later
  

  historical rust
  

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• Jetrelay: A high-performance ATproto relay in 500 LOC
  

  linux performance
  

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• A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy: building railroads for the cloud economy
  

  devops
  

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• OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025
  

  ml web
  

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• Classical "Single user computers" were a flawed or at least limited idea
  

  historical
  

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• The current state of TLA⁺ development
  

  formalmethods
  

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

• Scalar Select Anti-Pattern
  

  performance
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust
  

  release rust
  

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• My 2025 high-end Linux PC
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app
  

  linux security
  

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• Stop using REST for state synchronization
  

  networking practices
  

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• Why we need lisp machines
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist
  

  netbsd
  

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• Why I wrote the fx web server
  

  release web
  

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• Please Please Please
  

  debugging satire
  

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• RULECOMPILE - Undocumented Ghidra decompiler rule language
  

  reversing
  

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• Data is code
  

  plt
  

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• Why I use WebAssembly
  

  wasm web
  

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

• If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
  

  security
  

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• Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year
  

  a11y ios
  

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• The penultimate conditional syntax
  

  plt
  

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• LibreWolf Browser
  

  browsers web
  

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• Policy of transience
  

  practices
  

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• AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The first year of free-threaded Python
  

  python
  

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• ZJIT has been merged into Ruby
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• $20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in rav1d AV1 Decoder
  

  performance rust
  

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• MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin
  

  satire
  

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• Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly
  

  debugging ios
  

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

• Preventing outages with pkill's new --require-handler flag
  

  devops linux
  

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• A programming language made for me
  

  programming
  

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• China Just Made the World's Fastest Transistor and It Is Not Made of Silicon
  

  hardware science
  

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• Two months in Servo: CSS nesting, Shadow DOM, Clipboard API, and more
  

  browsers rust
  

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• Firefox moves to GitHub
  

  browsers
  

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• An accessibility update
  

  a11y
  

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• Multiple Security Issues in Screen
  

  security
  

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• Why do Saturation and Luminance go all the way to 240, but Hue goes only to 239? And why 239 anyway?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It’s on Fire
  

  performance rust
  

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• Writing that changed how I think about PL
  

  plt
  

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• Fx v36 - JSON terminal viewer
  

  go release
  

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• Why Bell Labs Worked
  

  historical
  

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