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 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
  

  compsci
  

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• A tale of two Claudes
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Munal OS: A graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
  

  osdev wasm
  

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• Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages (2022)
  

  plt zig
  

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• AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Building a Debugger: Write a Native x64 Debugger From Scratch
  

  c++ debugging
  

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• Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess
  

  assembly compilers concatenative
  

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• Qwen3 embedding models
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
  

  graphics linux
  

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• Makefile.md - Possibly Use(ful|less) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown
  

  programming
  

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• The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The high-level OS challenge
  

  linux osdev rust
  

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

• Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Just fucking code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Small Programs and Languages
  

  programming
  

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• Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust
  

  video programming rust
  

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• magic namerefs
  

  programming unix
  

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• Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen!)
  

  databases testing
  

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• Announcing the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate
  

  elixir release
  

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• git-remote-sqlite: Single-file Git repos that can replicate with Litestream
  

  show vcs
  

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• Curate your shell history
  

  practices unix
  

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• Consumer Routers - Router Security
  

  networking
  

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• Machine Code Isn't Scary
  

  assembly
  

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• Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise
  

  compsci math programming
  

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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 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Spritely Oaken
  

  lisp plt
  

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• 2.5D rendering on PlayDate
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Memory Safety Features in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Rust Dependencies scare Me
  

  rust
  

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• The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
  

  compsci historical practices
  

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• Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
  

  databases performance
  

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• A Critical Look at MCP
  

  ai networking security
  

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• You can use C-Reduce for any language
  

  plt
  

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• Reservoir Sampling
  

  math scaling
  

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• SQLite Extension Hub
  

  databases
  

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• Glossary Web Component
  

  web
  

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• Writing Arabic in English: My journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard
  

  editors
  

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