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

• Anubis now supports non-JS challenges
  

  release web
  

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• A remembrance of Matthew S. Trout (mst)
  

  perl person
  

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• Jai Demo and Design Explanation
  

  video plt
  

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• new Date("wtf")
  

  javascript
  

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• Vibe Coding Casino: Rise of programming by slot machine
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
  

  databases
  

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• jank is C++
  

  c++ clojure compilers plt
  

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• Closures for Hare
  

  plt
  

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• Unveiling the Open Source heroes that power our digital infrastructure
  

  person
  

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• Clustered PostgreSQL
  

  devops
  

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• sipgate discovers null-pointer-dereference in Mediatek VoLTE stack firmware
  

  networking security
  

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• Forget Borrow Checkers: C3 Solved Memory Lifetimes With Scopes
  

  c compilers plt programming
  

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

• The rise of Whatever
  

  culture rant
  

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• I want to leave tech: what do I do?
  

  culture person
  

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• Zig Roadmap 2026
  

  video zig
  

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• The most mysterious bug I solved at work
  

  debugging
  

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• Git experts should try Jujutsu
  

  practices vcs
  

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• Our Fullstack Architecture: Eta, HTMX, and Lit
  

  web
  

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• writing a little gosh
  

  go unix
  

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• A supposedly worthwhile contract I'll never do again
  

  formalmethods
  

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• RFC 9799: ACME Extensions for ".onion"
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Compression Dictionary Transport
  

  performance web
  

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• goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers
  

  security
  

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• Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
  

  security
  

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