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

• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
  

  browsers historical security
  

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• Breaking my Security Assignments
  

  security
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
  

  programming
  

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• How the Final Cartridge III Freezer works
  

  hardware historical
  

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• The Art of Lisp & Writing
  

  lisp practices
  

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• Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
  

  hardware historical
  

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• filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask
  

  databases zig
  

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• StarMalloc: verified memory allocator
  

  compsci formalmethods security
  

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• HTML WARDen (an HTML-based wiki)
  

  release
  

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• A meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
  

  philosophy
  

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• Self-referential abstractions: A quick look at the wacky epistemology of analog circuitry
  

  hardware
  

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• Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
  

  api distributed scaling
  

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

• “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta €32b
  

  privacy
  

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• GNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE Announcement
  

  freebsd release
  

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• Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do
  

  vibecoding
  

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• hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code
  

  programming
  

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• Android 16 is here
  

  android
  

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• Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
  

  browsers historical
  

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• R9: Plan 9 in Rust
  

  osdev rust
  

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• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
  

  philosophy
  

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• Verse Language
  

  plt
  

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• Quarkdown - Markdown with superpowers
  

  programming
  

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• Whatever happened to sandboxfs?
  

  mac performance programming
  

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

• [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling
  

  go
  

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• GenAI is Our Polyester
  

  art vibecoding
  

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• Swift at Apple: migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java
  

  swift
  

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• Don't McBlock me
  

  practices
  

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• AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
  

  culture
  

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• jujutsu on tangled
  

  vcs
  

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• Where did <random> go wrong?
  

  pdf slides c++
  

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• GoDaddy Issues Thousands of Certificates That Don't Work in Safari (again)
  

  security
  

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• Beachpatrol: CLI to automate your everyday web browser
  

  browsers javascript nodejs unix web
  

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• Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
  

  privacy security
  

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• swift-cross-ui: A cross-platform declarative UI framework, inspired by SwiftUI
  

  swift
  

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• Tests should not contain logic
  

  testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can we fix (or retire) the vibecoding tag?
  

  meta
  

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• parking_lot: ffffffffffffffff
  

  debugging rust
  

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• Saying Bye to Glitch
  

  editors web
  

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• A break from programming languages
  

  person plt
  

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• What's cooking on SourceHut? Q2 2025
  

  release
  

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• Compiler Explorer and the Promise of URLs That Last Forever
  

  web
  

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• Terraria and Celeste ported to WebAssembly
  

  programming wasm
  

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• Using SAT to Get the World Record on LinkedIn's Queens
  

  compsci math
  

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• The case for using a web browser as your terminal
  

  browsers web
  

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• Mullvad Leta
  

  privacy web
  

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• OpenBao v2.3 now supports Namespaces (HashiCorp Vault fork)
  

  databases devops security
  

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• go may require prefaulting mmap
  

  go performance
  

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

• I am disappointed in the AI discourse
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia, and Unix
  

  programming
  

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• Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
  

  javascript
  

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• Scrappy: make little apps for you and your friends
  

  programming web
  

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• Awesome Emacs on macOS
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
  

  culture law person
  

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• What a Difference a Faster Hash Makes
  

  performance rust
  

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• Firefox 139 adds experimental AI-powered link previews
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Teaching old hippies new tricks
  

  historical
  

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• Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems
  

  devops javascript security
  

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• Rust streams and timeouts gotcha
  

  rust
  

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