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

• We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application
  

  zig
  

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• Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my Primary Language
  

  compilers ml plt
  

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• Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• what is the go proxy even doing?
  

  go
  

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• Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry
  

  games graphics mac
  

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• GitHub Actions safe_sleep.sh
  

  art satire
  

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• Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk
  

  privacy
  

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• Emacs 30.2 is here
  

  emacs release
  

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• Taming the Beast: Comparing Jsonnet, Dhall, Cue
  

  programming
  

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• slog is aptly named
  

  go
  

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• Modifying Other People's Software
  

  show vcs
  

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• Ed25519 Support in Chrome: Making the Web Faster and Safer
  

  browsers cryptography
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Snooping On Slow Builds (Using Syscalls)
  

  compilers performance programming
  

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• pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
  

  python
  

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• Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
  

  distributed science
  

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• NGINX Introduces Native Support for ACME Protocol
  

  web
  

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• Plan 9 Desktop Guide
  

  historical osdev
  

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• Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode
  

  emacs
  

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• Our Paint | A Natural Painting Program
  

  art
  

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• Jujutsu with Radicle
  

  vcs
  

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• Miegakure SIGGRAPH 2025 Talk
  

  video games graphics
  

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• How to rig elections
  

  video security visualization
  

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• Cross-Site Request Forgery
  

  browsers security web
  

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

• How to not build the Torment Nexus
  

  philosophy
  

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• Setting up a CI server for Forgejo
  

  devops testing
  

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• I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Bevy's Fifth Birthday
  

  games rust
  

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• Creating the longest possible Ski Jump in The Games: Winter Challenge
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Compiling a Lisp: Closure conversion
  

  lisp
  

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• Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig
  

  performance zig
  

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• ChaCha12-BLAKE3: Secure, Simple and Fast authenticated and committing encryption
  

  cryptography release
  

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• ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz
  

  devops
  

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• TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)
  

  networking
  

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• All-in on Omarchy at 37signals
  

  linux
  

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• Commit Mono
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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

• GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
  

  a11y
  

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• It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
  

  css web
  

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• Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU - claims 100x more efficient than ARM
  

  hardware
  

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• Rust running on every major GPU platform
  

  graphics rust
  

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• From Async/Await to Virtual Threads
  

  python
  

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• Programming Vehicles in Games
  

  games
  

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• Heredocs Can Make Your Bash Scripts Self-Documenting
  

  linux
  

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• Bringing a Decade Old Bicycle Navigator Back to Life with Open Source Software (and DOOM)
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Split Flap
  

  design web
  

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• Can LLMs Do Accounting?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Monotonic and Wall Clock Time in the Go time package
  

  go
  

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• Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions
  

  graphics
  

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