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

• You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
  

  philosophy
  

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• I made a font
  

  design
  

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• A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar
  

  browsers
  

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• Car Physics for Games
  

  games
  

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• On File Formats
  

  philosophy practices
  

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• Asserting Implications
  

  zig
  

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• Mathpad: A mathematical keypad for students and professionals
  

  hardware
  

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• DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum
  

  python
  

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• Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python
  

  python
  

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• Against Curry-Howard Mysticism
  

  plt
  

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• HTML is like a camera
  

  web
  

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• ROCKNIX is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices
  

  games linux osdev
  

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

• CAPTCHAs don't work any more for ticket sellers
  

  a11y ai
  

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• What Works (and Doesn't) Selling Formal Methods
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Reinvent the Wheel
  

  programming
  

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• plwm: An X11 window manager written in Prolog
  

  linux
  

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• tachy0n: The last 0day jailbreak
  

  ios security
  

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• How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation
  

  linux security vibecoding
  

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• Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot
  

  lisp
  

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• Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
  

  linux
  

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• Having your compile-time cake and eating it too
  

  plt rust zig
  

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• Domain Theory Lecture Notes
  

  math plt
  

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• Programming On 34 Keys (2022)
  

  hardware programming
  

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• There is no Diffie-Hellman but Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
  

  cryptography math
  

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

• The GCC compiler backend can now fully bootstrap the Rust compiler
  

  compilers rust
  

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• NixOS 25.05 released
  

  nix release
  

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• Why Algebraic Effects?
  

  plt
  

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• Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my https site
  

  security
  

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• Those Stealthy Botnets
  

  security
  

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• Sandboxing AI Tools with Guix Containers
  

  emacs nix vibecoding
  

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• Emacs dired-mode as a file manager
  

  emacs
  

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• rqlite turns 10: Observations from a decade building Distributed Systems
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Forgotten APL Influences (2016)
  

  pdf apl historical
  

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• The shell and its problems in handling of whitespace (2023)
  

  unix
  

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• Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT
  

  programming
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• The Copilot Delusion
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Making Postgres distributed with FoundationDB
  

  databases distributed
  

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• The future of Flatpak
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing TypeScript Native Previews
  

  javascript web
  

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• another tale of go.mod bloat
  

  go
  

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• Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
  

  ai
  

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• Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
  

  python
  

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• Tales From Mainframe Modernization
  

  historical
  

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• Claude and I write a utility program
  

  vibecoding
  

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• FreeBSD Status Report 2025Q1
  

  freebsd
  

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• Whippet GC notes on Guile, heuristics, and heap growth
  

  lisp plt
  

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• Configuring Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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

• By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
  

  security windows
  

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• Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster
  

  c performance rust
  

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• The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess
  

  vibecoding
  

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• My Technological Regrets
  

  practices
  

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• Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs
  

  assembly debugging hardware
  

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• ChatGPT Heard About Eagles Fans
  

  vibecoding
  

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• 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work
  

  programming
  

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• TypeID in Lua
  

  lua web
  

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• Transpiler is a meaningless word (2023)
  

  compilers
  

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• Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts
  

  haskell nix web
  

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• Introducing Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Functional hash tables explained
  

  lisp plt
  

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