The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
  

  browsers historical security
  

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• Breaking my Security Assignments
  

  security
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
  

  programming
  

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• How the Final Cartridge III Freezer works
  

  hardware historical
  

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• The Art of Lisp & Writing
  

  lisp practices
  

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• Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
  

  hardware historical
  

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• filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask
  

  databases zig
  

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• StarMalloc: verified memory allocator
  

  compsci formalmethods security
  

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• HTML WARDen (an HTML-based wiki)
  

  release
  

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• A meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
  

  philosophy
  

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• Self-referential abstractions: A quick look at the wacky epistemology of analog circuitry
  

  hardware
  

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• Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
  

  api distributed scaling
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig's self-hosted x86 backend is now default in Debug mode
  

  zig
  

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• Apple WWDC 2025
  

  event ios mac swift
  

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• Is Rust faster than C?
  

  c performance rust
  

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• Why doesn’t Rust care more about compiler performance?
  

  rust
  

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• killing X11
  

  rant unix
  

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• LLMs are cheap
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms
  

  distributed web
  

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• Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
  

  security
  

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• Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More
  

  linux
  

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• Unlocking the Motorola G23 (and some words on Motorola)
  

  android reversing security
  

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• How I program with Agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• AI Angst
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• A year of funded FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74
  

  mac person
  

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• I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The next phase of jank's C++ interop
  

  c++ clojure compilers plt
  

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• A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface
  

  art hardware
  

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• First usermode exploit and more: Nintendo Switch 2 had a busy (hacking) week for its launch
  

  hardware security
  

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• Unveiling the EndBOX
  

  netbsd
  

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• Hacking is Necessary
  

  practices
  

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• An Earnest Guide to Symbols in Common Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How can one write blazing fast yet useful compilers (for lazy pure functional languages)?
  

  ask compilers performance
  

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• Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
  

  distributed
  

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• I Let ChatGPT Make All My Architectural Decisions for a Month: The Surprising Results
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Just fucking code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Small Programs and Languages
  

  programming
  

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• Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust
  

  video programming rust
  

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• magic namerefs
  

  programming unix
  

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• Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen!)
  

  databases testing
  

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• Announcing the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate
  

  elixir release
  

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• git-remote-sqlite: Single-file Git repos that can replicate with Litestream
  

  show vcs
  

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• Curate your shell history
  

  practices unix
  

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• Consumer Routers - Router Security
  

  networking
  

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• Machine Code Isn't Scary
  

  assembly
  

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• Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise
  

  compsci math programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• jujutsu v0.30.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• What's your go-to message queue in 2025?
  

  ask distributed scaling
  

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• Physicality: the new age of UI
  

  design ios mac
  

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• Days since last Rust Minecraft server
  

  games rust
  

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• What Happens If We Inline Everything?
  

  compilers
  

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• Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers
  

  python vibecoding
  

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• DiffX - Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format
  

  vcs
  

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• AI Changes Everything
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025
  

  c compilers scaling web
  

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• Vibe coding case study: ScubaDuck
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Zero-Cost 'Tagless Final' in Rust with GADT-style Enums
  

  plt rust
  

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• Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
  

  ai
  

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