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

• Wayback 0.1 released
  

  linux
  

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• Developing our position on AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There is no memory safety without thread safety
  

  go java plt
  

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• How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver
  

  databases
  

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• The Promised LAN
  

  networking
  

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• A valid HTML zip bomb
  

  web
  

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• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
  

  historical
  

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• The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
  

  design hardware
  

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• systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
  

  linux
  

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• JNJ: J iN Janet
  

  apl lisp
  

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• TrackWeight: Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale
  

  mac
  

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• How much do you spend on AI-assisted tools?
  

  ask vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
  

  go web
  

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• Belgium is unsafe for CVD
  

  law security
  

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• KDE Plasma 6.4 has landed in OpenBSD
  

  openbsd
  

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• 160 Core RISC-V supercluster on a single M.2
  

  video hardware
  

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• Unsoundness and accidental features in the #[target_feature] attribute
  

  rust
  

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• The Real GenAI Issue
  

  vibecoding
  

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• C mistakes among the vulnerabilities present in curl code
  

  c security
  

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• Conventional Commits makes me sad
  

  practices vcs
  

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• operators, not users and programmers
  

  culture programming
  

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• Decker Fantasy Camp
  

  audio apl
  

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• The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions
  

  performance
  

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• Readline v8.3 release
  

  c release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• List of "tech for good" job boards
  

  job
  

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• GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Five-year review of BQN design
  

  apl historical plt
  

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• Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• The two types of open source
  

  programming
  

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• BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
  

  networking
  

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• Luciole Math: a typeface developed explicitly for visually impaired academics
  

  a11y design math
  

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• jjui: a text user interface (TUI) for the Jujutsu version control system
  

  vcs
  

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• Pyrefly vs. ty: Comparing Python’s Two New Rust-Based Type Checkers
  

  python
  

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• MCP explained without hype or fluff
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Own Your Email Domain
  

  email
  

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• Docker
  

  design linux osdev
  

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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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