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

• XKCD's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful
  

  programming
  

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• Ian Lance Taylor of the Go team leaves Google
  

  go person
  

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• One-click RCE in ASUS’s preinstalled driver software
  

  security
  

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• Organize your Go middleware without dependencies
  

  go
  

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• Mipmap selection in too much detail
  

  graphics
  

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• Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety (2024)
  

  pdf security
  

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• fan service
  

  openbsd
  

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• Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND?
  

  c math
  

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• Dotless Domains (2021)
  

  networking
  

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• Lume 3 was released
  

  javascript
  

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• NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION
  

  netbsd
  

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• Are We Serious About Using TLA+ For Statistical Properties?
  

  formalmethods
  

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

• curl now requires disclosing whether AI was used on bug reports
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• Podfox: World's First Container-Aware Browser
  

  linux
  

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• An appeal to Apple from Anukari regarding GPU frequency scaling
  

  mac performance
  

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• Implementing a Struct of Arrays
  

  c++ zig
  

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• nnd: A TUI alternative to gdb
  

  debugging
  

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• How prime factorizations govern the Collatz conjecture
  

  math
  

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• Overengineering PR create with jj
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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• Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
  

  linux rust
  

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• Framebuffer user interface
  

  linux
  

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• Summer of Math Exposition 4
  

  education math
  

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• GenAI-accelerated TLA+ challenge
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Things Zig comptime Won't Do
  

  plt zig
  

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• Beej's Guide to Git
  

  vcs
  

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• How I use Kate Editor
  

  editors
  

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• Ansible: pure (only in its) pragmatism
  

  linux
  

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• Efficient E-Matching for Super Optimizers
  

  math performance zig
  

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• The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2
  

  ai mobile security web
  

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• Common shell script mistakes
  

  programming
  

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• Revisiting an early critique of formal verification
  

  formalmethods historical
  

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• On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
  

  compsci philosophy practices
  

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• Common Expression Language
  

  plt programming
  

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• backdooms: A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code
  

  art games web
  

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• Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)
  

  c networking retrocomputing
  

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

• Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• FreeDOS 1.4 released
  

  osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Better typography with text-wrap pretty
  

  css design
  

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• Parser Combinators Beat Regexes
  

  haskell
  

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• rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
  

  mac
  

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• Emacs Startup Time Doesn’t Matter
  

  emacs
  

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• Go Zero Values
  

  go
  

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• Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
  

  programming
  

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• Beware when moving a std::optional (2023)
  

  c++
  

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• Every programming language needs its killer app to succeed
  

  programming
  

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• "Verified" "Compilation" of "Python" with Knuckledragger, GCC, and Ghidra
  

  assembly compilers formalmethods python reversing
  

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• MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
  

  ai ruby web
  

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

• Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
  

  security
  

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• Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake?
  

  go
  

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• That time I recreated Photoshop in C++
  

  c++ windows
  

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• My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster
  

  email security
  

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• coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust
  

  formalmethods rust
  

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• Matching Regexps 200 Times Faster
  

  ruby
  

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• Shellcode Encoded in UUIDs
  

  security
  

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• Enhancing CA Practices: Key Updates in Mozilla Root Store Policy, v3.0
  

  browsers cryptography security
  

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• ArenaAllocator.free and Nested Arenas
  

  zig
  

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• Why I Don't Like Hackathons
  

  practices
  

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• SICL: Fresh Implementation of Common Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• Kerning, the Hard Way
  

  graphics
  

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