The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Elixir v1.19 Released
  

  elixir release
  

  Comments
• Forgejo v13.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Why C variable argument functions are an abomination (and what to do about it)
  

  c
  

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• Paneru - A sliding, tiling window manager for MacOS
  

  mac
  

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• Zed editor is now available on Windows
  

  editors windows
  

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• Nix: connecting to the Sandbox
  

  nix
  

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• F5 Says Nation-State Hackers Stole Source Code and Vulnerability Data
  

  security
  

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• Design for the trash can
  

  philosophy
  

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• What’s your go-to strategy for giving engineers access to production?
  

  ask security
  

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• MNT September 2025 Update
  

  hardware
  

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• Unfair Flips World Record Strategy
  

  games math
  

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• Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
  

  editors osdev retrocomputing
  

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

• Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial
  

  vcs
  

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• Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT)
  

  math science
  

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• The Country That Broke Kotlin
  

  kotlin
  

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• LineageOS 23 released
  

  android
  

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• fzf 0.66.0 introduces “--raw mode”
  

  release unix
  

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• Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
  

  hardware
  

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• The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
  

  compilers
  

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• Three ways "formally verified" can go wrong
  

  formalmethods
  

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• The European Accessibility Act will make the Web Better for Everyone
  

  a11y law web
  

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• WSL-For-FreeBSD: Experimental project to FreeBSD in WSL2
  

  freebsd virtualization windows
  

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• w11: PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Tinymist is an integrated language service for Typst
  

  programming
  

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

• HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag
  

  a11y web
  

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• Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
  

  design mac
  

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• Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
  

  browsers
  

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• Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Bun 1.3
  

  javascript nodejs release
  

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• Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification
  

  python
  

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• A Conversation Between Richard Feldman (Roc Creator) and Andrew Kelley (Zig Creator)
  

  video plt zig
  

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• Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming (1978)
  

  ai historical
  

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• OCaml 5.4 Release: New Features, Fixes, and More
  

  ml release
  

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• Beyond the AI Hype: Guido van Rossum on Python’s Philosophy, Simplicity, and the Future of Programming
  

  person python vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Eon - an Effects-based OCaml Nameserver
  

  ml web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Julia v1.12 release highlights
  

  programming release
  

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• TIL: Python's splitlines does a lot more than just newlines
  

  python
  

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• Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
  

  linux programming
  

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• Interval Calculator
  

  math
  

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• Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
  

  javascript
  

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• HUML :: Human-oriented Markup Language
  

  programming
  

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• The Mondrian introduction to functional optics
  

  haskell plt visualization
  

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• Oral History of Ken Thompson
  

  video historical unix
  

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• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality
  

  video practices
  

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• asPipes: working pipelines today in pure JavaScript
  

  javascript
  

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• Examples are the best documentation
  

  practices
  

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• Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu
  

  video vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Seeing like a software company
  

  practices
  

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• The fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010 was 20 bytes
  

  ios reversing
  

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• The Handle trait
  

  rust
  

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• The evolution of Lua, continued
  

  pdf historical lua
  

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• I'm Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers
  

  browsers c++ javascript reversing
  

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• What are PolyForm licenses?
  

  law
  

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• Python Insider: Python 3.14.0 (final) is here
  

  python release
  

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• Vibe engineering
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust
  

  c++ rust
  

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• Birth of Prettier
  

  javascript practices
  

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• Test your README in a fresh VM
  

  practices
  

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• Why you should be using pathlib (2018)
  

  python
  

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