The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Declarative music - 2 Minute Deep Acid in Strudel (from scratch)
  

  video art editors
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Susam
  

  interview person
  

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• Kefir 0.5.0 Release Announcement (C17/C23 compiler)
  

  c compilers release
  

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• A positive lambda: '+[]{}'
  

  c++
  

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• FatNums: An Alternate Representation for School Arithmetic (2020)
  

  education math
  

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• Program verification is not all-or-nothing
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Classic GTK1 GUI Library for Windows, Linux and MacOS
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Fun Friday Question: What Easter Eggs have you Found or Made?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones
  

  databases devops linux
  

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• Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide
  

  go
  

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• Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
  

  ai
  

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• httpjail: monitor and restrict HTTP/HTTPS requests from processes
  

  networking vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What the hell is going on right now?
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Matklad
  

  person
  

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• I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
  

  zig
  

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• The issue of anti-cheat on Linux
  

  games linux
  

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• Go is still not good
  

  go rant
  

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• Ledger (2023)
  

  finance unix visualization
  

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• Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
  

  linux
  

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• No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT
  

  web
  

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• The Baby Paradox in Haskell
  

  formalmethods haskell
  

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• Hyperclay | Single File HTML APPS
  

  web
  

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• A New Rust Packaging Model
  

  nix rust
  

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• Why do software developers love complexity?
  

  practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?
  

  performance web
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Hwayne
  

  interview formalmethods person
  

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• The Framework Desktop is a beast
  

  hardware
  

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• Debian 13 "trixie" released
  

  linux release
  

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• an engineer's perspective on hiring
  

  practices
  

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• A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008)
  

  historical
  

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• Partially Matching Zig Enums
  

  programming
  

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• A puzzling Python program
  

  python
  

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• Introducing spindle
  

  nix vcs
  

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• Programming as Extended Cognition
  

  programming
  

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• A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises
  

  api vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• You might not need tmux
  

  unix
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Icefox
  

  interview person
  

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• It's rude to show AI output to people
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How NixOS is built
  

  nix
  

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• agendafs: A filesystem for syncing notes to your calendar
  

  show c unix
  

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• If Odin Had Macros
  

  plt
  

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• Our first outage from LLM-written code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  satire vcs
  

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• Local-first search. A tale of frustrated dreams, utopian user experiences and calculated tradeoffs
  

  databases javascript performance
  

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• 6 Weeks of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
  

  linux security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• They're putting blue food coloring in everything
  

  culture rant
  

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• Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org
  

  rant
  

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• Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project - and ditch the crufty MPA and complex SPA
  

  programming web
  

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• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I’m Tired of Talking About AI
  

  culture rant vibecoding
  

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• The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Introducing XMLUI
  

  web
  

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• Rust Clippy performance status update
  

  rust
  

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• Async I/O on Linux and durability
  

  performance
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
  

  devops freebsd
  

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• Using leaked data to examine vulnerabilities in SMS routing and SS7 signalling
  

  security
  

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• FAQ: What’s a @KevlinHenney?
  

  culture person
  

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