The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Quantifying pass-by-value overhead
  

  assembly c performance
  

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• Recent Rust Changes
  

  rust
  

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• Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Linux VM without VM software - User Mode Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming To Achieve It
  

  plt
  

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• More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
  

  distributed
  

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• Raconn - Ssh multi hostname
  

  c devops linux
  

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• Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
  

  c
  

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• Handwriting Programs in J (2017)
  

  apl
  

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• Easy RISC-V: An interactive introduction to RISC-V assembly programming
  

  assembly programming
  

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• How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?
  

  ruby
  

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

• You already have a git server
  

  vcs
  

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• WebDAV Isn't Dead Yet
  

  web
  

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• Tag proposal: typesetting
  

  meta
  

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• You should feed the bots
  

  web
  

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• Alpha launch - .well-known/avatar - feedback wanted
  

  web
  

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• Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
  

  netbsd
  

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• KDE Linux deep dive: package management is amazing, which is why we don’t include it
  

  linux
  

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• the bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
  

  ai debugging
  

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• "Learn APL" Notes
  

  apl
  

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• Property-Based Testing in Practice
  

  pdf ml testing
  

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• Metalang99: a rich functional language implemented in C99 preprocessor
  

  c plt
  

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• Barebones RISC-V OS written in Zig (2023)
  

  osdev zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My most popular application
  

  show web
  

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• Just use cURL
  

  practices
  

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• 6 months of Tangled
  

  vcs
  

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• How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer
  

  programming
  

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• Plasma 6.5
  

  release
  

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• The joy of rediscovering Perl
  

  perl
  

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• Measuring Engineering Productivity
  

  practices
  

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• Continuously keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server
  

  email
  

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• Tracking Time Without Clock
  

  programming
  

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• Judo (Jujutsu GUI)
  

  vcs
  

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• Yet Another Year With Decker (v1.44 - v1.60)
  

  apl release
  

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• Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance
  

  historical
  

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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 September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
  

  pdf ruby
  

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• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
  

  debugging windows
  

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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  

  satire security
  

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• Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
  

  c++ distributed go
  

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• Configuration files are user interfaces
  

  api programming
  

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• Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan wrote APL for Music
  

  apl person
  

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• FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
  

  freebsd illumos
  

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• Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine
  

  video c++
  

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• We have outgrown the Process model
  

  osdev
  

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• The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2023)
  

  mac
  

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