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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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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