The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go 1.25 Release Notes
  

  go release
  

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• Why I chose OCaml as my primary language
  

  ml plt programming
  

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• Ashet Home Computer
  

  hardware osdev retrocomputing
  

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• The Factory Timezone
  

  programming
  

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• Linear scan register allocation on SSA
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
  

  culture linux
  

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• How I do (type-safe) container types in C
  

  c
  

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• NYC’s Urban Textscape
  

  design web
  

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• Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Type inference for plain data
  

  plt
  

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• OOMProf - Take a heap profile just before OOMkill using eBPF
  

  debugging go linux performance programming
  

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• stylish bugs
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Litestar is worth a look
  

  python web
  

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• We replaced passwords with something worse
  

  practices security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.89.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Live coding sucks
  

  culture programming
  

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• A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C
  

  c performance
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16
  

  linux release
  

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• uBlock Origin Lite for Safari
  

  browsers ios mac release
  

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• Why hx-boost is actually the most important feature of htmx
  

  web
  

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• The Bluesky Dictionary
  

  visualization web
  

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• GPT-5 is here
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• Jepsen: Capela dda5892
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Bag of words, have mercy on us
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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

• The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
  

  privacy web
  

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• Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Be Careful with Go Struct Embedding
  

  go
  

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• Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
  

  c
  

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• We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
  

  programming
  

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• Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2?
  

  windows
  

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• A Proper X86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional
  

  compilers haskell
  

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• Digital hygiene: Emails
  

  email practices
  

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• zig-error-patterns
  

  zig
  

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• Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
  

  api scaling web
  

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• Open models by OpenAI
  

  ai release
  

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• Python performance myths and fairy tales
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Every reason why I hate AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Markdown Monster
  

  programming
  

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• What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  

  ask practices programming
  

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• Gleam v1.12.0 released
  

  gleam release
  

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• A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
  

  web
  

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• Quickshell, building blocks for your desktop
  

  linux
  

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• The Toyota Corolla Of Programming
  

  php
  

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• Lisp interpreter with GC in 662 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)
  

  c lisp
  

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• TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
  

  security
  

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• No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta
  

  javascript python rust vibecoding
  

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• Introducing luzer, a coverage-guided Lua fuzzing engine
  

  lua practices programming security testing
  

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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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