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 July 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing
  

  graphics historical
  

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• A month using XMPP for every call and chat (2023)
  

  networking
  

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• A Dive Into Open Chat Protocols
  

  networking
  

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• Flat design vs realistic (“skeuomorphic”) design
  

  a11y design
  

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• [RFC] Upstream target support for CHERI-enabled architectures
  

  compilers security
  

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• bookmarkfs: FUSE-based pseudo-filesystem for managing web browser bookmarks
  

  unix web
  

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• A pretty nice web framework
  

  web
  

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• KernelScript: DSL for eBPF-Centric Development
  

  linux plt
  

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• You Are The BIOS Now: Building A Hypervisor In Rust With KVM
  

  linux rust virtualization
  

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• Writing memory efficient C structs
  

  c programming
  

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• Phoenix LiveView v1.1.0
  

  elixir release web
  

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• Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 stepping fixes E9 GPIO Erratum, glitching bugs, introduces 2MB flash variants
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm never going back to Matrix
  

  rant
  

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• I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec
  

  graphics performance
  

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• Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment
  

  show education historical
  

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• Weather Model based on ADS-B
  

  hardware visualization
  

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• Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
  

  vim vscode
  

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• No more Erlang manuals
  

  erlang
  

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• 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
  

  practices programming
  

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• Linux 6.16 changelog
  

  linux release
  

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• rules_derive: deriving using macro_rules
  

  release rust
  

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• The Bard and The Shell
  

  unix
  

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• From XML to JSON to CBOR
  

  historical
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
  

  freebsd
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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