The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  

  ruby
  

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• Xz format inadequate for general use
  

  unix
  

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• Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain
  

  email practices
  

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• I Know When You're Vibe Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Nullable vs nullable in C#
  

  dotnet
  

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• Developing an alt text button for images on my website
  

  css web
  

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• Stable, Mutable References
  

  plt
  

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• Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude
  

  cryptography
  

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• Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment
  

  databases plt
  

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• Inside Windows 3
  

  historical osdev windows
  

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• Prediction-Encoded Pixels: a tiny yet powerful pixel art compression method
  

  graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
  

  law networking
  

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• Comparing nitro to runit
  

  unix
  

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• I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material
  

  rant security
  

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• Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix
  

  nix
  

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• anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code
  

  web
  

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• Line scan camera image processing (train photography)
  

  art graphics math
  

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• SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better
  

  databases
  

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• Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  

  python web
  

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• io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
  

  linux rust
  

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• AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
  

  science vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Big O
  

  compsci
  

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• Understanding Jujutsu bookmarks
  

  vcs
  

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• Materialized views are obviously useful
  

  databases
  

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• rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust
  

  compilers rust
  

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• The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare
  

  javascript networking rust web
  

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• bubbletea-rs: A rust implementation of Bubbletea
  

  rust
  

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• RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
  

  programming
  

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• nitro: a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  

  unix
  

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• To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
  

  practices
  

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• Optimizing our way through Metroid
  

  games testing
  

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• Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
  

  distributed
  

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• Retry Loop Retry
  

  zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
  

  lua vim
  

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• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
  

  practices
  

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• All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs (2021)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Why I prefer rST [reStructuredText] to Markdown (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
  

  illumos
  

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• wrkflw: Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally
  

  testing
  

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• Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
  

  databases
  

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• Recto — a truly 2D language
  

  plt
  

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• NixOS & Flakes Book
  

  book nix
  

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• Customizing Lisp REPLs
  

  lisp
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Litestar is worth a look
  

  python web
  

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• We replaced passwords with something worse
  

  practices security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.89.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Live coding sucks
  

  culture programming
  

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• A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C
  

  c performance
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16
  

  linux release
  

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• uBlock Origin Lite for Safari
  

  browsers ios mac release
  

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• Why hx-boost is actually the most important feature of htmx
  

  web
  

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• The Bluesky Dictionary
  

  visualization web
  

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• GPT-5 is here
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• Jepsen: Capela dda5892
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Bag of words, have mercy on us
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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