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 July 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• font-size-adjust Is Useful
  

  design web
  

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• Computational Tyranny
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• What to expect from Debian/trixie
  

  linux
  

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• More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
  

  hardware
  

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• You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed
  

  editors vibecoding
  

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• Python 3.14 release candidate 1 is go
  

  python release
  

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• Is it feasible to start a local forum in 2025?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2
  

  devops
  

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• Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Library of Babel
  

  web
  

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• Introducing swift-erlang-actor-system
  

  erlang swift
  

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• Kelp: A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components
  

  css
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NVIDIA is full of shit
  

  hardware rant
  

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• Anubis Pilot Project Report - June 2025
  

  pdf ai
  

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• Recent Archive of Our Own outage was caused by integer exhaustion
  

  databases scaling web
  

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• mawkdown, a lightweight, line-oriented(ish) text markup tool implemented in awk
  

  unix web
  

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• Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly
  

  compilers python
  

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• Why I got rid of all my neovim plugins
  

  vim
  

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• OpenMW 0.49.0 Released
  

  games release
  

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• What clever tools/workflows do you use to manage development environments?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
  

  hardware performance
  

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• When AI Codes, What’s Left for me?
  

  transcript vibecoding
  

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• The Eternal Mainframe
  

  browsers historical philosophy
  

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• Tiny Great Languages: MOUSE
  

  concatenative retrocomputing
  

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

• Tools I love: mise(-en-place)
  

  devops programming
  

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• Agile Was Never Your Problem
  

  practices
  

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• SQL Noir: Learn SQL by Solving Crimes
  

  databases
  

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• Critical correctness bug in Lix
  

  nix security
  

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• Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses
  

  python
  

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• That boolean should probably be something else
  

  practices
  

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• Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID
  

  javascript reversing web
  

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• The provenance memory model for C
  

  c
  

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• CVE-2025-32463 Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
  

  linux security
  

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• 20 years of programming
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• The role of the University is to resist AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• An update on improving passkey support in Linux
  

  linux security
  

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