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 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Syncthing v2.0
  

  distributed release
  

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• Fight Chat Control
  

  law privacy
  

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• uxn
  

  osdev
  

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• ai reviews my mini webserver
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• The Best "Hello World" in Web Development
  

  web
  

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• missing.css 1.2.0
  

  css release
  

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• Don’t Forget To Flush
  

  video networking zig
  

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• A Tour of Standard ML (2021)
  

  ml
  

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• My tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled
  

  performance plt
  

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• Takeaway: a work-stealing task queue library for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)
  

  hardware programming
  

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• The History of Windows XP
  

  historical windows
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
  

  law reversing
  

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• How Perplexity is Evading Anti-crawling Measures
  

  networking
  

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• The Q Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• More retrocomputing, less nostalgia
  

  philosophy retrocomputing
  

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• The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
  

  ai rant satire
  

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• So you want to parse a PDF?
  

  programming
  

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• Maybe the Fastest Disk Usage Program on macOS
  

  mac performance
  

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• How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
  

  browsers performance
  

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• Why Semantic HTML Still Matters
  

  web
  

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• The Generativity Pattern in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• HTMX is hard so let's get it right
  

  web
  

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

• Wren - a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
  

  plt
  

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• TIL: Exception.add_note
  

  python
  

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• copyparty: portable file server with resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, and more
  

  privacy python
  

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• Development shells with Nix: four quick examples
  

  nix
  

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• The JJ VCS Workshop: A Zero-to-Hero Speedrun
  

  vcs
  

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• Resizable structs in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
  

  practices programming
  

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• Test results for AMD Zen 5
  

  hardware performance
  

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• Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving
  

  performance zig
  

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• Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force
  

  law
  

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• Specials (2021)
  

  satire unix
  

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• LLMs are bad at returning code in JSON
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• Reviving Genius
  

  historical mac objectivec
  

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• Compiler bootstrapping in Nixpkgs
  

  nix
  

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• Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
  

  browsers graphics
  

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• Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories
  

  vcs
  

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• Underused Techniques for Effective Emails
  

  practices
  

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• Janet Feature Demos
  

  lisp plt
  

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• How I keep up with AI progress
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Encrypting Files with Passkeys and age
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm (2024)
  

  go practices
  

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• Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
  

  distributed security
  

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• Introducing go-cdc-chunkers: chunk and deduplicate everything
  

  go
  

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• The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
  

  cryptography go law
  

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