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

• Elixir v1.19 Released
  

  elixir release
  

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• Forgejo v13.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Why C variable argument functions are an abomination (and what to do about it)
  

  c
  

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• Paneru - A sliding, tiling window manager for MacOS
  

  mac
  

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• Zed editor is now available on Windows
  

  editors windows
  

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• Nix: connecting to the Sandbox
  

  nix
  

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• F5 Says Nation-State Hackers Stole Source Code and Vulnerability Data
  

  security
  

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• Design for the trash can
  

  philosophy
  

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• What’s your go-to strategy for giving engineers access to production?
  

  ask security
  

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• MNT September 2025 Update
  

  hardware
  

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• Unfair Flips World Record Strategy
  

  games math
  

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• Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
  

  editors osdev retrocomputing
  

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

• The DHH Problem (2014)
  

  video culture ruby
  

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• I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
  

  editors
  

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• When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
  

  graphics windows
  

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• I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• FSF announces Librephone project
  

  android mobile
  

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• A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go
  

  go security web
  

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• Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0
  

  programming
  

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• Reverse Engineering iWork
  

  ios mac reversing
  

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• Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem’s Brain
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Why your boss isn't worried about AI - "can't you just turn it off?"
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pwning the Entire Nix Ecosystem
  

  nix security
  

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

• Mergiraf - syntax-aware git merge driver
  

  programming vcs
  

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• The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
  

  art retrocomputing
  

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• Happy Birthday to KDE
  

  linux
  

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• Meta news on Lix in October 2025
  

  nix
  

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• zoo of array languages
  

  apl
  

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• We need (at least) ergonomic, explicit handles
  

  rust
  

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• Revisiting SailfishOS
  

  mobile
  

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• nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
  

  ai rust
  

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• Django forever
  

  python web
  

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• Why did containers happen? A view from ten years in the trenches by Docker's former CTO Justin Cormack
  

  virtualization
  

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• Octothorpes
  

  web
  

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• nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  

  unix
  

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

• Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• smolBSD — build your own minimal BSD system
  

  netbsd osdev
  

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• Strudel REPL - a music live coding environment living in the browser
  

  programming
  

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• Abstraction, not syntax
  

  devops
  

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• Wireguard FPGA
  

  hardware networking
  

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• NSA and IETF: Can an attacker simply purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
  

  cryptography
  

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• Free Software hasn't won
  

  law philosophy
  

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• Building multi-step login forms that work well with password managers
  

  web
  

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• I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Thoughts on Remix 3
  

  web
  

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• JIT: so you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs…
  

  compilers databases hardware
  

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• What Dynamic Typing Is For
  

  practices web
  

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

• Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial
  

  vcs
  

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• Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT)
  

  math science
  

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• The Country That Broke Kotlin
  

  kotlin
  

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• LineageOS 23 released
  

  android
  

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• fzf 0.66.0 introduces “--raw mode”
  

  release unix
  

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• Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
  

  hardware
  

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• The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
  

  compilers
  

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• Three ways "formally verified" can go wrong
  

  formalmethods
  

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• The European Accessibility Act will make the Web Better for Everyone
  

  a11y law web
  

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• WSL-For-FreeBSD: Experimental project to FreeBSD in WSL2
  

  freebsd virtualization windows
  

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• w11: PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Tinymist is an integrated language service for Typst
  

  programming
  

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