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

• Open Source is one person
  

  programming
  

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• Sometimes CPU cores are odd
  

  web
  

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• GMP damages AMD Zen 5 CPUs
  

  hardware
  

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• I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS
  

  android privacy
  

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• Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Block ads and trackers
  

  privacy web
  

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• Making Minecraft Spherical
  

  games
  

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• State of the art for reducing executable size with heavily optimized program
  

  c++ practices
  

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• Rupert’s property: cut a hole in a polyhedron big enough for an identical copy to slide through
  

  math
  

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• Implementing Forth in Go and C
  

  c concatenative go
  

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• The Koka programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions
  

  compilers plt programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
  

  law networking
  

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• Comparing nitro to runit
  

  unix
  

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• I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material
  

  rant security
  

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• Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix
  

  nix
  

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• anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code
  

  web
  

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• Line scan camera image processing (train photography)
  

  art graphics math
  

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• SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better
  

  databases
  

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• Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  

  python web
  

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• io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
  

  linux rust
  

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• AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
  

  science vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Enterprise Experience
  

  practices satire
  

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• “Email is Easy” email address quiz
  

  email
  

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• Various desktop Linux tips for newbies
  

  linux
  

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• Is Gleam production ready?
  

  gleam
  

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• LLMs aren’t world models
  

  ai
  

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• A programmer's field guide to assertions
  

  practices
  

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• Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
  

  math
  

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• Everything I know about good system design
  

  distributed
  

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• Bullfrog in the Dungeon
  

  games historical
  

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• Ambient age verification
  

  privacy web
  

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• Who does your assistant serve?
  

  ai
  

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• Beyond Booleans: Propositions in Lean
  

  math plt
  

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

• proposal: mark/punish ai imagery
  

  meta
  

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• The future of large files in Git is Git
  

  vcs
  

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• Single Sign On for Furries
  

  security
  

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• Maintainers of Last Resort
  

  practices security
  

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• Lobsters Blog Carnival
  

  show event
  

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• Typechecker Zoo
  

  haskell ml plt
  

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• Payment Processor Fun 2025: Making Your Own MSP
  

  finance
  

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• An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions
  

  hardware math
  

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• is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?
  

  linux openbsd performance
  

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• Happy 100000th birthday, Debian
  

  linux
  

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• libxml2 Maintainer Ends Embargoed Vulnerability Reports, Citing Unsustainable Burden
  

  security
  

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• There is a new short domain name for PuTTY
  

  release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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