The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• always bet on text (2014)
  

  programming
  

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• The Hype is the Product
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Sync primitives are Functionally Complete
  

  api
  

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• I built my blog with C preprocessor macros
  

  c web
  

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• The Math Is Haunted
  

  math
  

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• Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot
  

  go
  

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• 2000 words about arrays and tables
  

  compsci rant
  

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• QUIC for the kernel
  

  linux networking
  

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• The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1
  

  programming
  

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• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Emacs: The MacOS Bug
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Renting is for Suckers
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Racket as a first language
  

  education
  

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• Celebrating 20 years of MDN
  

  web
  

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• New Aarch64 Backend
  

  compilers zig
  

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• Using fortune to reinforce habits
  

  practices
  

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• Three HTTP versions later, forms are still a mess
  

  web
  

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• Use Your Type System
  

  plt practices
  

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• The MonTana Mini Computer
  

  compsci retrocomputing
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Technomancy
  

  programming
  

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• Fallout's Memory Model
  

  video c games
  

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• That time I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
  

  performance
  

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• PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Store tags after payloads
  

  plt
  

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• Ten years of running every day, visualized
  

  visualization
  

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• The hunt for a perfect laptop continues
  

  hardware
  

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• Panasonic + OpenBSD = <3
  

  openbsd
  

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• The Best C++ Library
  

  c++
  

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• Improving AVIF in Open Source
  

  compsci
  

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• Bash patch - Add shopt for implicit && in place of ; for functions end of lines
  

  linux plt unix
  

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• Exploiting All Google kernelCTF Instances And Debian 12 With A 0-Day For $82k: A RBTree Family Drama (Part One)
  

  linux security
  

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• Using Elm in 2025
  

  elm
  

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• Data alignment for speed: myth or reality? (2012)
  

  performance
  

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• you are in a box
  

  programming
  

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• How does a screen work?
  

  graphics hardware historical
  

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

• Everyone should copy Thunderbird's donation model
  

  practices
  

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• Bazel’s Original Sins
  

  programming
  

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• forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed
  

  graphics unix
  

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• Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API
  

  browsers release
  

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• Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
  

  historical mac reversing
  

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• Fixes for five Lix CVEs
  

  nix security
  

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• Go should be more opinionated
  

  go
  

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• JSON evolution in Go: from v1 to v2
  

  go
  

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• Whitesmiths C compiler: One of the earliest commercial C compilers available
  

  c historical
  

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• Solving LinkedIn Queens using MiniZinc
  

  compsci programming
  

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• Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar
  

  databases
  

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• The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization
  

  ai
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing the Clippy feature freeze
  

  rust
  

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• Adding linear-time lookbehinds to RE2
  

  compsci
  

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• My First Impressions of Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader
  

  games
  

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• Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
  

  rust
  

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• I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
  

  programming
  

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• Trip report: June 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting
  

  c++
  

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• About Plasma’s X11 session
  

  linux
  

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• you are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand
  

  culture
  

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• Why computational reproducibility matters
  

  science
  

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• Hare 0.25.2 released
  

  plt release
  

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• Announcing LogTape 1.0.0
  

  javascript
  

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