The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Quantifying pass-by-value overhead
  

  assembly c performance
  

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• Recent Rust Changes
  

  rust
  

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• Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Linux VM without VM software - User Mode Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming To Achieve It
  

  plt
  

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• More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
  

  distributed
  

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• Raconn - Ssh multi hostname
  

  c devops linux
  

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• Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
  

  c
  

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• Handwriting Programs in J (2017)
  

  apl
  

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• Easy RISC-V: An interactive introduction to RISC-V assembly programming
  

  assembly programming
  

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• How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?
  

  ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Leaving the Freedesktop.org community
  

  culture person
  

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• Tag proposal: conflicts
  

  meta
  

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• Libera Chat receives legal advice that the Online Safety Act does not apply to them
  

  law
  

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• NewPipe is turning 10
  

  android historical privacy reversing
  

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• Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
  

  android swift
  

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• Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should (2015)
  

  education
  

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• Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
  

  practices programming
  

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• A Vision for Future Low-Level Languages
  

  plt
  

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• Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012)
  

  graphics
  

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• Rolling Our Own S3
  

  scaling
  

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• Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)
  

  assembly
  

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• Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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

• My most popular application
  

  show web
  

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• Just use cURL
  

  practices
  

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• 6 months of Tangled
  

  vcs
  

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• How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer
  

  programming
  

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• Plasma 6.5
  

  release
  

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• The joy of rediscovering Perl
  

  perl
  

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• Measuring Engineering Productivity
  

  practices
  

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• Continuously keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server
  

  email
  

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• Tracking Time Without Clock
  

  programming
  

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• Judo (Jujutsu GUI)
  

  vcs
  

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• Yet Another Year With Decker (v1.44 - v1.60)
  

  apl release
  

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• Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance
  

  historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Majority AI View
  

  vibecoding
  

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• If you could redesign Linux userland from scratch, what would you do differently?
  

  ask linux osdev
  

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• Claude Skills may be a bigger deal than MCP
  

  vibecoding
  

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• When if is just a function
  

  plt
  

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• Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that page
  

  satire vibecoding
  

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• Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
  

  design editors plt rust
  

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• How Tailscale is improving NAT traversal (Part 1)
  

  networking
  

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• OCaml Platform Roadmap (2023)
  

  ml
  

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• What are you reading this week?
  

  ask book culture
  

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• On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities
  

  performance visualization
  

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• An open letter to the Obsidian team
  

  practices
  

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• How we organized the Rust Clippy feature freeze
  

  historical rust
  

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

• HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag
  

  a11y web
  

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• Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
  

  design mac
  

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• Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
  

  browsers
  

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• Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Bun 1.3
  

  javascript nodejs release
  

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• Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification
  

  python
  

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• A Conversation Between Richard Feldman (Roc Creator) and Andrew Kelley (Zig Creator)
  

  video plt zig
  

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• Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming (1978)
  

  ai historical
  

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• OCaml 5.4 Release: New Features, Fixes, and More
  

  ml release
  

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• Beyond the AI Hype: Guido van Rossum on Python’s Philosophy, Simplicity, and the Future of Programming
  

  person python vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Eon - an Effects-based OCaml Nameserver
  

  ml web
  

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