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 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wayback 0.1 released
  

  linux
  

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• Developing our position on AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There is no memory safety without thread safety
  

  go java plt
  

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• How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver
  

  databases
  

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• The Promised LAN
  

  networking
  

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• A valid HTML zip bomb
  

  web
  

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• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
  

  historical
  

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• The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
  

  design hardware
  

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• systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
  

  linux
  

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• JNJ: J iN Janet
  

  apl lisp
  

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• TrackWeight: Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale
  

  mac
  

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• How much do you spend on AI-assisted tools?
  

  ask vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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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 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Anubis now supports non-JS challenges
  

  release web
  

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• A remembrance of Matthew S. Trout (mst)
  

  perl person
  

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• Jai Demo and Design Explanation
  

  video plt
  

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• new Date("wtf")
  

  javascript
  

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• Vibe Coding Casino: Rise of programming by slot machine
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
  

  databases
  

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• jank is C++
  

  c++ clojure compilers plt
  

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• Closures for Hare
  

  plt
  

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• Unveiling the Open Source heroes that power our digital infrastructure
  

  person
  

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• Clustered PostgreSQL
  

  devops
  

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• sipgate discovers null-pointer-dereference in Mediatek VoLTE stack firmware
  

  networking security
  

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• Forget Borrow Checkers: C3 Solved Memory Lifetimes With Scopes
  

  c compilers plt programming
  

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