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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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 August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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

• always bet on text (2014)
  

  programming
  

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• The Hype is the Product
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Sync primitives are Functionally Complete
  

  api
  

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• I built my blog with C preprocessor macros
  

  c web
  

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• The Math Is Haunted
  

  math
  

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• Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot
  

  go
  

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• 2000 words about arrays and tables
  

  compsci rant
  

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• QUIC for the kernel
  

  linux networking
  

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• The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1
  

  programming
  

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• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Emacs: The MacOS Bug
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing
  

  graphics historical
  

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• A month using XMPP for every call and chat (2023)
  

  networking
  

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• A Dive Into Open Chat Protocols
  

  networking
  

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• Flat design vs realistic (“skeuomorphic”) design
  

  a11y design
  

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• [RFC] Upstream target support for CHERI-enabled architectures
  

  compilers security
  

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• bookmarkfs: FUSE-based pseudo-filesystem for managing web browser bookmarks
  

  unix web
  

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• A pretty nice web framework
  

  web
  

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• KernelScript: DSL for eBPF-Centric Development
  

  linux plt
  

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• You Are The BIOS Now: Building A Hypervisor In Rust With KVM
  

  linux rust virtualization
  

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• Writing memory efficient C structs
  

  c programming
  

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• Phoenix LiveView v1.1.0
  

  elixir release web
  

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• Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 stepping fixes E9 GPIO Erratum, glitching bugs, introduces 2MB flash variants
  

  hardware
  

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