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 May 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back
  

  a11y linux
  

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• Changelog Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
  

  culture
  

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• Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault
  

  freebsd linux virtualization
  

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• branchless development (2015)
  

  openbsd practices
  

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• bold linker v0.2.0 release - bold just got faster
  

  compilers
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.93 “Bici Bici”
  

  nix release
  

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• Stability by Design
  

  clojure
  

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• Slow Software for a Burning World
  

  elixir philosophy practices
  

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• eBPF mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
  

  dotnet linux networking
  

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• Easy parsing with reasonable error messages in OCaml's Angstrom
  

  ml
  

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• Static as a Server
  

  javascript web
  

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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 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
  

  c compilers python
  

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• Slopsquatting: Planting Malicious Packages Under Names AIs Will Hallucinate
  

  ai programming security
  

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• Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
  

  c compilers dotnet rust
  

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• Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
  

  linux
  

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• The 5 Levels of Configuration Languages
  

  plt
  

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• BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
  

  hardware
  

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• How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
  

  vcs
  

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• Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

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• My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league), is it even legal?
  

  law rant
  

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• Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI
  

  video hardware
  

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• wgpu v25.0.0 released
  

  graphics release rust
  

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• ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig
  

  games release zig
  

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

• The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
  

  historical
  

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• Who's Hiring? Q2 2025
  

  job
  

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• 9front “THE FRONT END OF TOMORROW” released
  

  art
  

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• Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader
  

  web
  

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• How I Spent Saturday Recovering A Passkey Or Why Open-Source Software Matters
  

  security
  

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• A love letter to the CSV format
  

  compsci
  

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• Rockbox 4.0 released
  

  release
  

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• The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
  

  css web
  

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• Ekapkgs, a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs
  

  nix
  

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• Why F#?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 2 (2.91.0) has been released
  

  release
  

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