The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Physically based rendering from first principles
  

  graphics
  

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• Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)
  

  graphics math
  

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• 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
  

  zig
  

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• Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard
  

  emacs
  

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• Wild Performance Tricks
  

  rust
  

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• why self-host 9front
  

  osdev practices
  

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• Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Passkeys and Modern Authentication
  

  security
  

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• matrix.org Major Outage - Database Incident (September 2nd 2025)
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Airbus B612 cockpit font
  

  art design
  

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• %CPU Utilization Is A Lie
  

  performance
  

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• The first Gleam Conference - Gathering 2026
  

  event
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What's cooking on SourceHut? Q3 2025
  

  release
  

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• Faster linking times with 1.90.0 stable on Linux using the LLD linker
  

  performance rust
  

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• Next.js Is Infuriating
  

  nodejs web
  

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• IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat
  

  video historical
  

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• Debugging Rustler on illumos
  

  elixir illumos rust
  

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• The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
  

  linux
  

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• Of Rats and Ratchets (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• Saturation and the Triumph of History: How most of the behavior of Tech Leaders since 2016 can be explained by smartphone market saturation
  

  culture
  

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• Wikidata and Mundaneum - The Triumph of the Commons
  

  clojure databases
  

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• Nimony: Design principles
  

  plt programming
  

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• The ASCII Side of the Moon
  

  art science visualization
  

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• Automatic updating Spotify status... without JavaScript
  

  css web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Appealing the ban of user friendlysock
  

  meta
  

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• Linus Torvalds marks bcachefs as "externally maintained"
  

  linux
  

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• Niri v25.08
  

  linux release rust
  

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• 10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End
  

  compilers
  

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• snuffle / salsa / chacha
  

  cryptography historical
  

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• SQLite's Durability Settings are a Mess
  

  databases
  

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• Why I use Debian
  

  linux
  

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• God created the real numbers
  

  historical math philosophy
  

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• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
  

  practices
  

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• Triangle Grids
  

  games math
  

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• The best way to advertise a language
  

  plt practices
  

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• Mystical Postscript
  

  art plt
  

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

• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
  

  law networking
  

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• Comparing nitro to runit
  

  unix
  

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• I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material
  

  rant security
  

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• Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix
  

  nix
  

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• anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code
  

  web
  

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• Line scan camera image processing (train photography)
  

  art graphics math
  

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• SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better
  

  databases
  

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• Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  

  python web
  

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• io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
  

  linux rust
  

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• AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
  

  science vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application
  

  zig
  

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• Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my Primary Language
  

  compilers ml plt
  

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• Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• what is the go proxy even doing?
  

  go
  

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• Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry
  

  games graphics mac
  

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• GitHub Actions safe_sleep.sh
  

  art satire
  

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• Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk
  

  privacy
  

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• Emacs 30.2 is here
  

  emacs release
  

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• Taming the Beast: Comparing Jsonnet, Dhall, Cue
  

  programming
  

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• slog is aptly named
  

  go
  

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• Modifying Other People's Software
  

  show vcs
  

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• Ed25519 Support in Chrome: Making the Web Faster and Safer
  

  browsers cryptography
  

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