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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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NVIDIA is full of shit
  

  hardware rant
  

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• Anubis Pilot Project Report - June 2025
  

  pdf ai
  

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• Recent Archive of Our Own outage was caused by integer exhaustion
  

  databases scaling web
  

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• mawkdown, a lightweight, line-oriented(ish) text markup tool implemented in awk
  

  unix web
  

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• Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly
  

  compilers python
  

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• Why I got rid of all my neovim plugins
  

  vim
  

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• OpenMW 0.49.0 Released
  

  games release
  

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• What clever tools/workflows do you use to manage development environments?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
  

  hardware performance
  

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• When AI Codes, What’s Left for me?
  

  transcript vibecoding
  

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• The Eternal Mainframe
  

  browsers historical philosophy
  

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• Tiny Great Languages: MOUSE
  

  concatenative retrocomputing
  

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

• Tools I love: mise(-en-place)
  

  devops programming
  

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• Agile Was Never Your Problem
  

  practices
  

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• SQL Noir: Learn SQL by Solving Crimes
  

  databases
  

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• Critical correctness bug in Lix
  

  nix security
  

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• Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses
  

  python
  

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• That boolean should probably be something else
  

  practices
  

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• Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID
  

  javascript reversing web
  

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• The provenance memory model for C
  

  c
  

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• CVE-2025-32463 Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
  

  linux security
  

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• 20 years of programming
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• The role of the University is to resist AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• An update on improving passkey support in Linux
  

  linux security
  

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