The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig's Lovely Syntax
  

  zig
  

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• Lobsters client for Emacs
  

  show emacs
  

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• The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple
  

  design historical
  

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• JanetDocs
  

  show lisp
  

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• Why do we even need SIMD instructions ?
  

  performance
  

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• Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
  

  lisp
  

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• What even is distributed systems
  

  distributed
  

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• Notes on a smaller Rust (2019)
  

  plt
  

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• GPTs and feeling left behind
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why I prefer human-readable file formats
  

  practices
  

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• Creating high quality electronics schematics
  

  hardware
  

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• Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
  

  networking
  

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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 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Litestar is worth a look
  

  python web
  

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• We replaced passwords with something worse
  

  practices security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.89.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Live coding sucks
  

  culture programming
  

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• A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C
  

  c performance
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16
  

  linux release
  

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• uBlock Origin Lite for Safari
  

  browsers ios mac release
  

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• Why hx-boost is actually the most important feature of htmx
  

  web
  

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• The Bluesky Dictionary
  

  visualization web
  

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• GPT-5 is here
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• Jepsen: Capela dda5892
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Bag of words, have mercy on us
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
  

  privacy web
  

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• Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Be Careful with Go Struct Embedding
  

  go
  

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• Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
  

  c
  

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• We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
  

  programming
  

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• Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2?
  

  windows
  

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• A Proper X86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional
  

  compilers haskell
  

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• Digital hygiene: Emails
  

  email practices
  

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• zig-error-patterns
  

  zig
  

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• Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
  

  api scaling web
  

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• Open models by OpenAI
  

  ai release
  

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• Python performance myths and fairy tales
  

  python
  

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

• Every reason why I hate AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Markdown Monster
  

  programming
  

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• What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  

  ask practices programming
  

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• Gleam v1.12.0 released
  

  gleam release
  

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• A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
  

  web
  

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• Quickshell, building blocks for your desktop
  

  linux
  

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• The Toyota Corolla Of Programming
  

  php
  

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• Lisp interpreter with GC in 662 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)
  

  c lisp
  

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• TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
  

  security
  

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• No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta
  

  javascript python rust vibecoding
  

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• Introducing luzer, a coverage-guided Lua fuzzing engine
  

  lua practices programming security testing
  

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