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

• Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink and roll paper support
  

  hardware
  

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• Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
  

  linux
  

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• The Software Essays that Shaped Me
  

  programming
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released
  

  release
  

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• we move as 1
  

  games
  

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• MAML - a new configuration language (similar to JSON, YAML, and TOML)
  

  programming
  

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• The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop)
  

  programming retrocomputing rust
  

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• The expression problem and Rust
  

  rust
  

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• io_uring is not an event system (2021)
  

  linux performance
  

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• Introducing tdom: HTML templating with t‑strings
  

  python
  

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• UNIX99: UNIX for the TI-99/4A
  

  osdev unix
  

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• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
  

  pdf ruby
  

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• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
  

  debugging windows
  

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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  

  satire security
  

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• Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
  

  c++ distributed go
  

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• Configuration files are user interfaces
  

  api programming
  

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• Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan wrote APL for Music
  

  apl person
  

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• FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
  

  freebsd illumos
  

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• Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine
  

  video c++
  

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• We have outgrown the Process model
  

  osdev
  

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• The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2023)
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gleam is my new obsession
  

  gleam
  

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• Debian 12 installer promotes US/* time zones
  

  databases devops linux
  

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• a few notes on ratelimiting
  

  security
  

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• Redox Development Priorities for 2025/26
  

  osdev
  

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• The Many Broken Feeds
  

  web
  

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• The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms
  

  performance rust
  

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• Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Weird CPU architectures: the MOV only CPU
  

  hardware
  

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• Basics of Equality Saturation
  

  compilers plt python
  

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• Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
  

  osdev zig
  

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• Pass: Unix Password Manager
  

  linux security
  

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• Diesel 2.3.0
  

  release rust
  

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

• Physically based rendering from first principles
  

  graphics
  

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• Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)
  

  graphics math
  

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• 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
  

  zig
  

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• Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard
  

  emacs
  

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• Wild Performance Tricks
  

  rust
  

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• why self-host 9front
  

  osdev practices
  

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• Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Passkeys and Modern Authentication
  

  security
  

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• matrix.org Major Outage - Database Incident (September 2nd 2025)
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Airbus B612 cockpit font
  

  art design
  

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• %CPU Utilization Is A Lie
  

  performance
  

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• The first Gleam Conference - Gathering 2026
  

  event
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  

  ruby
  

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• Xz format inadequate for general use
  

  unix
  

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• Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain
  

  email practices
  

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• I Know When You're Vibe Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Nullable vs nullable in C#
  

  dotnet
  

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• Developing an alt text button for images on my website
  

  css web
  

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• Stable, Mutable References
  

  plt
  

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• Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude
  

  cryptography
  

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• Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment
  

  databases plt
  

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• Inside Windows 3
  

  historical osdev windows
  

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• Prediction-Encoded Pixels: a tiny yet powerful pixel art compression method
  

  graphics
  

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