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

• Physically based rendering from first principles
  

  graphics
  

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• Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)
  

  graphics math
  

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• 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
  

  zig
  

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• Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard
  

  emacs
  

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• Wild Performance Tricks
  

  rust
  

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• why self-host 9front
  

  osdev practices
  

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• Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Passkeys and Modern Authentication
  

  security
  

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• matrix.org Major Outage - Database Incident (September 2nd 2025)
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Airbus B612 cockpit font
  

  art design
  

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• %CPU Utilization Is A Lie
  

  performance
  

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• The first Gleam Conference - Gathering 2026
  

  event
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
  

  graphics reversing
  

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• So many conferences are mid. Why was BSC 2025 so good?
  

  event
  

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• Uncertain<T>
  

  swift
  

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• The unexpected productivity boost of Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Inside Zig's New Writer
  

  zig
  

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• How "special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)
  

  historical
  

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• We should rethink how we teach people to code
  

  education practices
  

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• Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
  

  programming security
  

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• Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison (2019)
  

  lisp performance
  

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• shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019)
  

  c++ performance
  

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• GNU Artanis - Web app framework for Scheme
  

  lisp web
  

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• Das Problem mit German Strings
  

  databases
  

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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 August 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
  

  law networking
  

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• Comparing nitro to runit
  

  unix
  

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• I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material
  

  rant security
  

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• Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix
  

  nix
  

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• anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code
  

  web
  

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• Line scan camera image processing (train photography)
  

  art graphics math
  

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• SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better
  

  databases
  

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• Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  

  python web
  

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• io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
  

  linux rust
  

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• AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
  

  science vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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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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