The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• You might not need tmux
  

  unix
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Icefox
  

  interview person
  

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• It's rude to show AI output to people
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How NixOS is built
  

  nix
  

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• agendafs: A filesystem for syncing notes to your calendar
  

  show c unix
  

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• If Odin Had Macros
  

  plt
  

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• Our first outage from LLM-written code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  satire vcs
  

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• Local-first search. A tale of frustrated dreams, utopian user experiences and calculated tradeoffs
  

  databases javascript performance
  

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• 6 Weeks of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
  

  linux security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do you understand f-strings?
  

  python
  

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• Async Rust Is A Bad Language (2023)
  

  rust
  

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• Pimping my Casio: Part Deux
  

  hardware
  

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• Jsonptr: Using Wuffs’ Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder (2020)
  

  c compilers performance
  

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• The current technology is not ready for proper blending
  

  graphics
  

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• Shutting down Clear Linux OS
  

  linux
  

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• How I Fixed Ruby's Most Annoying Problem: 60-Second Gem Installs
  

  ruby
  

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• Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
  

  linux security
  

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• polycode: Encode a binary file as a rational polynomial function
  

  math rust
  

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• When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
  

  openbsd security
  

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• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
  

  devops
  

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• Frequently Asked Questions about FHE
  

  cryptography math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reviving Genius
  

  historical mac objectivec
  

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• Compiler bootstrapping in Nixpkgs
  

  nix
  

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• Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
  

  browsers graphics
  

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• Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories
  

  vcs
  

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• Underused Techniques for Effective Emails
  

  practices
  

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• Janet Feature Demos
  

  lisp plt
  

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• How I keep up with AI progress
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Encrypting Files with Passkeys and age
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm (2024)
  

  go practices
  

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• Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
  

  distributed security
  

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• Introducing go-cdc-chunkers: chunk and deduplicate everything
  

  go
  

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• The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
  

  cryptography go law
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Faking a JPEG
  

  graphics security
  

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• Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
  

  networking openbsd
  

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• Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet
  

  hardware programming
  

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• Placing functions
  

  rust
  

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• Dyson Sphere Program's new multithreading framework
  

  games performance
  

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• Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’
  

  c compilers
  

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• Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request
  

  law
  

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• Hanami and the elephant in the room
  

  ruby
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies
  

  cryptography
  

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• Multi-player Durable Stream Playground
  

  databases distributed
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How I build software quickly
  

  practices
  

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• Two weeks of wayback
  

  linux
  

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• You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log
  

  cryptography security
  

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• How Janet's PEG module works
  

  lisp
  

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• Generic interfaces
  

  go
  

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• Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service
  

  cryptography
  

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• WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?
  

  wasm
  

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• Stop putting nix setup in your checked-in .envrc files
  

  nix practices
  

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• Jepsen & TigerBeetle
  

  databases distributed
  

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• #[derive(Clone)] is broken
  

  rust
  

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• systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
  

  linux systemd
  

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• The case against which-key: a polemic
  

  emacs
  

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