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

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
  

  reversing
  

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• The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Rating 26 years of Java changes
  

  historical java
  

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• Ghostty 1.2.0 - Release Notes
  

  release
  

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• Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually
  

  ml plt
  

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• The E Language
  

  plt
  

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• Rye Tables vs Python/Pandas: A Different Way to Wrangle Data
  

  programming python
  

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• asciinema 3.0 adds live streaming and local-first recording
  

  release
  

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• Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Varnish: 8.0.0 with bonus project news
  

  distributed release
  

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• React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
  

  javascript web
  

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• Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gleam is my new obsession
  

  gleam
  

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• Debian 12 installer promotes US/* time zones
  

  databases devops linux
  

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• a few notes on ratelimiting
  

  security
  

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• Redox Development Priorities for 2025/26
  

  osdev
  

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• The Many Broken Feeds
  

  web
  

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• The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms
  

  performance rust
  

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• Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Weird CPU architectures: the MOV only CPU
  

  hardware
  

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• Basics of Equality Saturation
  

  compilers plt python
  

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• Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
  

  osdev zig
  

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• Pass: Unix Password Manager
  

  linux security
  

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• Diesel 2.3.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
  

  law networking
  

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• Comparing nitro to runit
  

  unix
  

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• I Hacked Monster Energy and Uncovered Their Employee Training Material
  

  rant security
  

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• Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix
  

  nix
  

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• anubis_offload: userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code
  

  web
  

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• Line scan camera image processing (train photography)
  

  art graphics math
  

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• SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better
  

  databases
  

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• Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• microdot: The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  

  python web
  

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• io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
  

  linux rust
  

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• AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
  

  science vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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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 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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