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

• How to not build the Torment Nexus
  

  philosophy
  

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• Setting up a CI server for Forgejo
  

  devops testing
  

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• I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Bevy's Fifth Birthday
  

  games rust
  

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• Creating the longest possible Ski Jump in The Games: Winter Challenge
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Compiling a Lisp: Closure conversion
  

  lisp
  

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• Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig
  

  performance zig
  

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• ChaCha12-BLAKE3: Secure, Simple and Fast authenticated and committing encryption
  

  cryptography release
  

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• ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz
  

  devops
  

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• TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)
  

  networking
  

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• All-in on Omarchy at 37signals
  

  linux
  

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• Commit Mono
  

  programming
  

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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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