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

• Announcing Spritely Oaken
  

  lisp plt
  

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• 2.5D rendering on PlayDate
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Memory Safety Features in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Rust Dependencies scare Me
  

  rust
  

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• The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
  

  compsci historical practices
  

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• Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
  

  databases performance
  

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• A Critical Look at MCP
  

  ai networking security
  

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• You can use C-Reduce for any language
  

  plt
  

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• Reservoir Sampling
  

  math scaling
  

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• SQLite Extension Hub
  

  databases
  

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• Glossary Web Component
  

  web
  

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• Writing Arabic in English: My journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard
  

  editors
  

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

• Redis is open source again
  

  law
  

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• Pwning the Ladybird browser
  

  c++ security
  

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• The Rise & Fall of Erlang at Ericsson AB (2023)
  

  erlang historical
  

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• Elm test distributions
  

  elm haskell testing
  

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• A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
  

  databases
  

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• Co-dfns versus BQN's implementation
  

  apl compilers
  

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• Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that
  

  security windows
  

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• E-book reader for e-ink devices
  

  design mobile
  

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• Polishing your typography with line height units
  

  css design web
  

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• minidisc: Zero-config service discovery for Tailscale networks
  

  go networking
  

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• Roons: A Mechanical Computer Kit
  

  art
  

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• Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• Against Horizontal Scroll
  

  design web
  

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• I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
  

  devops
  

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• Elixir is not owned by Big Tech
  

  elixir
  

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• Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases
  

  slides video databases philosophy practices
  

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• New tag: vibecoding
  

  meta ai vibecoding
  

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• Pyrefly: A faster Python type checker written in Rust
  

  python rust
  

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• Future of OSL in jeopardy
  

  finance
  

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• verb: Emacs org-mode alternative to postman
  

  emacs
  

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• Syntactic musings on match expressions
  

  plt rust
  

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• Swarm Testing Data Structures
  

  testing zig
  

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• AirBorne: Wormable Zero-Click RCE in Apple AirPlay
  

  ios security
  

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• Quotes on notation design & how it affects thought
  

  practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Migrating away from Rust
  

  dotnet games rust
  

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• Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• What the heck is AEAD again?
  

  cryptography programming
  

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• OpenBSD 7.7
  

  openbsd release
  

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• Giving software away for free
  

  python wasm web
  

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• A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
  

  ai
  

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• anticrawl
  

  web
  

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• Why performance optimization is hard work
  

  performance
  

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• Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
  

  windows
  

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• Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
  

  c++ programming
  

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• Packed Data support in Haskell
  

  haskell
  

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• Python sub-micro GPIO
  

  hardware performance python
  

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

• The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org
  

  css web
  

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• Implementing Unsure Calculator in 100 lines of Haskell
  

  haskell math
  

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• Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
  

  law
  

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• How decentralized is the fediverse, really?
  

  distributed
  

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• Bevy 0.16
  

  games graphics release rust
  

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• PATH should be a system call
  

  osdev
  

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• How I Got Hacked: A Warning about Malicious PoCs
  

  security
  

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• Don’t Delete – Just Don’t (2009)
  

  databases
  

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• Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems
  

  linux security
  

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• Towards Vortex 1.0
  

  databases
  

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• Requirements change until they don't
  

  testing
  

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• devenv 1.6: Extensible Ad-Hoc Nix Environments
  

  nix
  

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