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

• rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  

  ruby
  

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• Xz format inadequate for general use
  

  unix
  

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• Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain
  

  email practices
  

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• I Know When You're Vibe Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Nullable vs nullable in C#
  

  dotnet
  

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• Developing an alt text button for images on my website
  

  css web
  

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• Stable, Mutable References
  

  plt
  

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• Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude
  

  cryptography
  

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• Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment
  

  databases plt
  

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• Inside Windows 3
  

  historical osdev windows
  

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• Prediction-Encoded Pixels: a tiny yet powerful pixel art compression method
  

  graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
  

  web
  

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• Why I Read Technical Books
  

  practices
  

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• ghrc.io Appears to be Malicious
  

  devops security virtualization
  

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• What are OKLCH colors?
  

  design
  

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• Who's Afraid of a Hard Page Load?
  

  web
  

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• I Don't Like Imports
  

  practices rust
  

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• Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs
  

  networking
  

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• Which Programming Language Should I Teach First?
  

  education
  

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• Introducing Zod Codecs
  

  javascript release
  

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• macOS dotfiles should not go in ~/Library/Application Support
  

  mac unix
  

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• Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
  

  android privacy
  

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• The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux
  

  linux
  

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

• The Enterprise Experience
  

  practices satire
  

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• “Email is Easy” email address quiz
  

  email
  

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• Various desktop Linux tips for newbies
  

  linux
  

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• Is Gleam production ready?
  

  gleam
  

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• LLMs aren’t world models
  

  ai
  

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• A programmer's field guide to assertions
  

  practices
  

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• Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
  

  math
  

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• Everything I know about good system design
  

  distributed
  

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• Bullfrog in the Dungeon
  

  games historical
  

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• Ambient age verification
  

  privacy web
  

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• Who does your assistant serve?
  

  ai
  

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• Beyond Booleans: Propositions in Lean
  

  math plt
  

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

• We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application
  

  zig
  

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• Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my Primary Language
  

  compilers ml plt
  

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• Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• what is the go proxy even doing?
  

  go
  

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• Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry
  

  games graphics mac
  

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• GitHub Actions safe_sleep.sh
  

  art satire
  

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• Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk
  

  privacy
  

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• Emacs 30.2 is here
  

  emacs release
  

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• Taming the Beast: Comparing Jsonnet, Dhall, Cue
  

  programming
  

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• slog is aptly named
  

  go
  

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• Modifying Other People's Software
  

  show vcs
  

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• Ed25519 Support in Chrome: Making the Web Faster and Safer
  

  browsers cryptography
  

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

• Syncthing v2.0
  

  distributed release
  

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• Fight Chat Control
  

  law privacy
  

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• uxn
  

  osdev
  

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• ai reviews my mini webserver
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• The Best "Hello World" in Web Development
  

  web
  

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• missing.css 1.2.0
  

  css release
  

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• Don’t Forget To Flush
  

  video networking zig
  

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• A Tour of Standard ML (2021)
  

  ml
  

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• My tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled
  

  performance plt
  

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• Takeaway: a work-stealing task queue library for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)
  

  hardware programming
  

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• The History of Windows XP
  

  historical windows
  

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