The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Google is killing the open web
  

  browsers web
  

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• Left to Right Programming
  

  plt
  

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• Phrack 72
  

  security
  

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• Reserve First
  

  programming zig
  

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• Intel Outside: Hacking every Intel employee and various internal websites
  

  security
  

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• The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
  

  design visualization
  

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• Why developers question everything
  

  philosophy
  

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• Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention
  

  design
  

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• Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects
  

  ml
  

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• The Lawnmower IRC Server
  

  hardware
  

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• Without the futex, it's futile
  

  performance
  

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• ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018)
  

  osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
  

  lua vim
  

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• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
  

  practices
  

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• All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs (2021)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Why I prefer rST [reStructuredText] to Markdown (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
  

  illumos
  

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• wrkflw: Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally
  

  testing
  

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• Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
  

  databases
  

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• Recto — a truly 2D language
  

  plt
  

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• NixOS & Flakes Book
  

  book nix
  

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• Customizing Lisp REPLs
  

  lisp
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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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 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Snooping On Slow Builds (Using Syscalls)
  

  compilers performance programming
  

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• pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
  

  python
  

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• Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
  

  distributed science
  

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• NGINX Introduces Native Support for ACME Protocol
  

  web
  

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• Plan 9 Desktop Guide
  

  historical osdev
  

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• Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode
  

  emacs
  

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• Our Paint | A Natural Painting Program
  

  art
  

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• Jujutsu with Radicle
  

  vcs
  

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• Miegakure SIGGRAPH 2025 Talk
  

  video games graphics
  

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• How to rig elections
  

  video security visualization
  

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• Cross-Site Request Forgery
  

  browsers security web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go 1.25 Release Notes
  

  go release
  

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• Why I chose OCaml as my primary language
  

  ml plt programming
  

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• Ashet Home Computer
  

  hardware osdev retrocomputing
  

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• The Factory Timezone
  

  programming
  

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• Linear scan register allocation on SSA
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
  

  culture linux
  

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• How I do (type-safe) container types in C
  

  c
  

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• NYC’s Urban Textscape
  

  design web
  

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• Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Type inference for plain data
  

  plt
  

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• OOMProf - Take a heap profile just before OOMkill using eBPF
  

  debugging go linux performance programming
  

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• stylish bugs
  

  programming
  

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