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

• XKCD's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful
  

  programming
  

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• Ian Lance Taylor of the Go team leaves Google
  

  go person
  

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• One-click RCE in ASUS’s preinstalled driver software
  

  security
  

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• Organize your Go middleware without dependencies
  

  go
  

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• Mipmap selection in too much detail
  

  graphics
  

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• Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety (2024)
  

  pdf security
  

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• fan service
  

  openbsd
  

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• Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND?
  

  c math
  

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• Dotless Domains (2021)
  

  networking
  

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• Lume 3 was released
  

  javascript
  

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• NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION
  

  netbsd
  

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• Are We Serious About Using TLA+ For Statistical Properties?
  

  formalmethods
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back
  

  a11y linux
  

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• Changelog Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
  

  culture
  

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• Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault
  

  freebsd linux virtualization
  

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• branchless development (2015)
  

  openbsd practices
  

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• bold linker v0.2.0 release - bold just got faster
  

  compilers
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.93 “Bici Bici”
  

  nix release
  

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• Stability by Design
  

  clojure
  

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• Slow Software for a Burning World
  

  elixir philosophy practices
  

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• eBPF mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
  

  dotnet linux networking
  

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• Easy parsing with reasonable error messages in OCaml's Angstrom
  

  ml
  

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• Static as a Server
  

  javascript web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• So we finished decompiling LEGO Island
  

  video retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Write the most clever code you possibly can
  

  practices rant
  

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• Wasm 2.0 Completed
  

  wasm
  

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• Wikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rules
  

  law
  

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• Build your own ResponseWriter: safer HTTP in Go
  

  go
  

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• Web Browser telemetry
  

  browsers
  

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• Rusty Nu POSIX
  

  nix practices rust
  

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• PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 Released
  

  databases
  

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• Can It Run Doom? An Archive of All Known Ports
  

  games hardware
  

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• Beating the fastest lexer generator in Rust (2023)
  

  compilers performance rust
  

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• PairDrop: peer-to-peer file sharing in your browser
  

  web
  

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• The Path to Memory Safety is Inevitable
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Spritely Oaken
  

  lisp plt
  

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• 2.5D rendering on PlayDate
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Memory Safety Features in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Rust Dependencies scare Me
  

  rust
  

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• The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
  

  compsci historical practices
  

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• Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
  

  databases performance
  

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• A Critical Look at MCP
  

  ai networking security
  

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• You can use C-Reduce for any language
  

  plt
  

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• Reservoir Sampling
  

  math scaling
  

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• SQLite Extension Hub
  

  databases
  

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• Glossary Web Component
  

  web
  

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• Writing Arabic in English: My journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard
  

  editors
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to packaging policy violation
  

  linux security
  

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• CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
  

  c++ release
  

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• Zed Editor adds full AI capabilities
  

  editors vibecoding
  

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• Finale - How Music Software Dies
  

  video design historical
  

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• The state of SSL stacks
  

  networking security
  

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• Lazarus release 4.0
  

  editors release
  

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• Optimizing Common Lisp
  

  lisp performance
  

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• Performance Profile Visualization Challenge
  

  performance
  

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• Implement your language twice
  

  plt
  

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• Rust in QEMU update
  

  rust virtualization
  

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• ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust
  

  python rust
  

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• bash/POSIX-compatible shell implemented in Rust
  

  rust unix
  

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