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

• You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine
  

  a11y linux rant
  

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• PNG is back
  

  graphics web
  

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• Box combinators
  

  programming
  

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• QEMU: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
  

  vibecoding virtualization
  

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• RSS Server Side Reader
  

  api
  

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• Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere
  

  practices
  

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• Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter
  

  compilers go lua
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.88.0
  

  rust
  

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• Deep down the rabbit hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-year-old surprise
  

  debugging linux
  

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• Coding in a material world
  

  philosophy
  

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• Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
  

  security web
  

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• How much code does that proc macro generate?
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
  

  browsers historical security
  

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• Breaking my Security Assignments
  

  security
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
  

  programming
  

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• How the Final Cartridge III Freezer works
  

  hardware historical
  

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• The Art of Lisp & Writing
  

  lisp practices
  

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• Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
  

  hardware historical
  

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• filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask
  

  databases zig
  

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• StarMalloc: verified memory allocator
  

  compsci formalmethods security
  

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• HTML WARDen (an HTML-based wiki)
  

  release
  

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• A meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
  

  philosophy
  

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• Self-referential abstractions: A quick look at the wacky epistemology of analog circuitry
  

  hardware
  

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• Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
  

  api distributed scaling
  

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

• “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta €32b
  

  privacy
  

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• GNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE Announcement
  

  freebsd release
  

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• Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do
  

  vibecoding
  

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• hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code
  

  programming
  

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• Android 16 is here
  

  android
  

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• Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
  

  browsers historical
  

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• R9: Plan 9 in Rust
  

  osdev rust
  

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• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
  

  philosophy
  

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• Verse Language
  

  plt
  

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• Quarkdown - Markdown with superpowers
  

  programming
  

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• Whatever happened to sandboxfs?
  

  mac performance programming
  

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

• You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
  

  philosophy
  

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• I made a font
  

  design
  

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• A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar
  

  browsers
  

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• Car Physics for Games
  

  games
  

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• On File Formats
  

  philosophy practices
  

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• Asserting Implications
  

  zig
  

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• Mathpad: A mathematical keypad for students and professionals
  

  hardware
  

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• DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum
  

  python
  

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• Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python
  

  python
  

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• Against Curry-Howard Mysticism
  

  plt
  

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• HTML is like a camera
  

  web
  

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• ROCKNIX is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices
  

  games linux osdev
  

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

• Senior devs aren't just faster, they can dodge problems juniors are forced to solve
  

  programming
  

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• GNU Parallel Examples
  

  performance
  

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• Static types are for perfectionists
  

  philosophy
  

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• A Ledger In PostgreSQL Is Fast
  

  databases
  

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• Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022)
  

  rust
  

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• CHERIoT: The last ten years
  

  hardware historical security
  

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• GNU Taler v1.0 released
  

  finance
  

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• New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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• O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
  

  privacy security
  

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• My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
  

  design
  

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• Mutexes Are Faster Than Spinlocks (2020)
  

  performance
  

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• Detecting malicious Unicode
  

  devops
  

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