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 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• KomoDo, my first KDE app
  

  linux release
  

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• Who's Hiring? Q3 2025
  

  job
  

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• HTTP is not simple
  

  web
  

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• All the cool kids are doing it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How long does it take to upgrade an eBook?
  

  a11y
  

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• Writing surtoget.no with gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Hypothesis is now thread-safe
  

  python testing
  

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• Arenas in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How I ended up writing Gleam for a living
  

  video gleam
  

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• Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
  

  lisp plt
  

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• Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
  

  historical mac
  

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• HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame
  

  security web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Litestar is worth a look
  

  python web
  

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• We replaced passwords with something worse
  

  practices security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.89.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Live coding sucks
  

  culture programming
  

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• A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C
  

  c performance
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16
  

  linux release
  

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• uBlock Origin Lite for Safari
  

  browsers ios mac release
  

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• Why hx-boost is actually the most important feature of htmx
  

  web
  

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• The Bluesky Dictionary
  

  visualization web
  

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• GPT-5 is here
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• Jepsen: Capela dda5892
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Bag of words, have mercy on us
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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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 August 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• always bet on text (2014)
  

  programming
  

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• The Hype is the Product
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Sync primitives are Functionally Complete
  

  api
  

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• I built my blog with C preprocessor macros
  

  c web
  

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• The Math Is Haunted
  

  math
  

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• Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot
  

  go
  

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• 2000 words about arrays and tables
  

  compsci rant
  

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• QUIC for the kernel
  

  linux networking
  

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• The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1
  

  programming
  

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• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Emacs: The MacOS Bug
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
  

  plt
  

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