The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Senior devs aren't just faster, they can dodge problems juniors are forced to solve
  

  programming
  

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• GNU Parallel Examples
  

  performance
  

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• Static types are for perfectionists
  

  philosophy
  

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• A Ledger In PostgreSQL Is Fast
  

  databases
  

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• Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022)
  

  rust
  

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• CHERIoT: The last ten years
  

  hardware historical security
  

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• GNU Taler v1.0 released
  

  finance
  

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• New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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• O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
  

  privacy security
  

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• My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
  

  design
  

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• Mutexes Are Faster Than Spinlocks (2020)
  

  performance
  

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• Detecting malicious Unicode
  

  devops
  

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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 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Python's new t-strings
  

  python
  

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• Getting Forked by Microsoft
  

  culture
  

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• This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii
  

  netbsd retrocomputing
  

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• Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM
  

  reversing
  

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• Projects For Old OS X
  

  mac
  

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• Why are big tech companies so slow?
  

  culture practices scaling
  

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• Nerdlog: Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram
  

  devops
  

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• Firefly III - A free and open source personal finance manager
  

  finance
  

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• pgdog: Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Notes on B (K) Implementation
  

  apl
  

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• What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025
  

  ai education
  

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• Option to hide karma?
  

  meta
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect mode support in the original Windows 3.0 was basically a 1-man skunkworks project
  

  historical windows
  

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• Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
  

  networking
  

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• The errors of TeX
  

  pdf historical practices
  

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• The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad
  

  rant
  

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• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt
  

  browsers
  

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• React 19 is now stable
  

  javascript release web
  

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• Galloping Search
  

  programming
  

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• How a solar Minecraft server is changing the way we play video games
  

  education games
  

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• Designing a const `array::from_fn` in stable Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Intuition in Software Development
  

  philosophy
  

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• How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
  

  finance web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Perhaps Rust needs "defer"
  

  c rust
  

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• How WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
  

  performance rust
  

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• Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines
  

  javascript security
  

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• The rise of advanced build systems
  

  devops nix
  

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• getopt() but smaller
  

  c
  

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• Fruit Credits: a personal accounting app based on hledger
  

  finance linux release
  

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• Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch
  

  c databases
  

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• Why Podia doesn’t use review apps anymore
  

  programming
  

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• ShareMyScreen - see how J experts write a program
  

  apl
  

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• Reliable Immutable Transfer Protocol
  

  networking
  

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• GoToSocial WASM-based SQLite driver and BSD
  

  freebsd netbsd
  

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• Lyceum - An MMO game written in Erlang + Zig (+ Raylib)
  

  erlang
  

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