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

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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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 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• font-size-adjust Is Useful
  

  design web
  

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• Computational Tyranny
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• What to expect from Debian/trixie
  

  linux
  

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• More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
  

  hardware
  

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• You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed
  

  editors vibecoding
  

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• Python 3.14 release candidate 1 is go
  

  python release
  

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• Is it feasible to start a local forum in 2025?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2
  

  devops
  

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• Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Library of Babel
  

  web
  

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• Introducing swift-erlang-actor-system
  

  erlang swift
  

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• Kelp: A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components
  

  css
  

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

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Forgejo v12
  

  release vcs
  

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• The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
  

  video historical programming
  

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• NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency
  

  practices scaling
  

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• Magic The Gathering - Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true
  

  games math
  

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• Engineering the End of Work
  

  ai culture
  

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• How Go 1.24's Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes
  

  go
  

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• Servo adds support for network inspector devtools
  

  browsers
  

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• firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware
  

  linux security
  

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• Asynchrony is not Concurrency
  

  plt zig
  

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• Defeating Dependency Duplication in Tests?
  

  ask practices
  

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• The Mercury Protocol
  

  networking satire
  

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• Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
  

  meta
  

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