The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Start your own Internet Resiliency Club
  

  culture networking scaling
  

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• Working on databases from prison: How I got here, part 2
  

  databases person
  

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• CSS Classes considered harmful
  

  design rant web
  

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• Jokes and Humour in the public Android API
  

  android satire
  

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• Goodbye Dark Inc. - Hello Darklang Inc
  

  api compilers culture devops historical ml programming
  

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• Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
  

  a11y practices
  

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• matrix is cooked
  

  culture networking
  

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• Datalog in Minikanren
  

  databases lisp
  

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• Quick takes on the GCP public incident write-up
  

  devops
  

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• 1x Forth (1999)
  

  concatenative practices
  

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• Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF
  

  c++
  

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• rgSQL: A test suite to help you build your own database engine
  

  databases testing
  

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

• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
  

  browsers historical security
  

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• Breaking my Security Assignments
  

  security
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
  

  programming
  

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• How the Final Cartridge III Freezer works
  

  hardware historical
  

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• The Art of Lisp & Writing
  

  lisp practices
  

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• Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
  

  hardware historical
  

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• filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask
  

  databases zig
  

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• StarMalloc: verified memory allocator
  

  compsci formalmethods security
  

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• HTML WARDen (an HTML-based wiki)
  

  release
  

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• A meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
  

  philosophy
  

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• Self-referential abstractions: A quick look at the wacky epistemology of analog circuitry
  

  hardware
  

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• Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
  

  api distributed scaling
  

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

• “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta €32b
  

  privacy
  

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• GNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE Announcement
  

  freebsd release
  

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• Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do
  

  vibecoding
  

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• hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code
  

  programming
  

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• Android 16 is here
  

  android
  

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• Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
  

  browsers historical
  

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• R9: Plan 9 in Rust
  

  osdev rust
  

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• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
  

  philosophy
  

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• Verse Language
  

  plt
  

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• Quarkdown - Markdown with superpowers
  

  programming
  

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• Whatever happened to sandboxfs?
  

  mac performance programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
  

  design historical unix
  

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• C++ to Rust Phrasebook
  

  c++ rust
  

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• My Backup Infrastructure, 2025 Edition
  

  practices
  

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• Improving EC2 boot time from 4s to 2.8s
  

  linux performance systemd
  

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• Simpler backoff
  

  go
  

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• Implementing a Forth
  

  concatenative
  

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• Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k
  

  performance
  

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• Decomplexification
  

  devops
  

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• PunchCard Key Backup
  

  show security
  

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• This website does not exist
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst
  

  a11y web
  

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• What is Racket DOING???
  

  debugging lisp
  

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

• I am disappointed in the AI discourse
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia, and Unix
  

  programming
  

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• Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
  

  javascript
  

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• Scrappy: make little apps for you and your friends
  

  programming web
  

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• Awesome Emacs on macOS
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
  

  culture law person
  

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• What a Difference a Faster Hash Makes
  

  performance rust
  

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• Firefox 139 adds experimental AI-powered link previews
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Teaching old hippies new tricks
  

  historical
  

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• Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems
  

  devops javascript security
  

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• Rust streams and timeouts gotcha
  

  rust
  

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