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 July 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Renting is for Suckers
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Racket as a first language
  

  education
  

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• Celebrating 20 years of MDN
  

  web
  

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• New Aarch64 Backend
  

  compilers zig
  

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• Using fortune to reinforce habits
  

  practices
  

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• Three HTTP versions later, forms are still a mess
  

  web
  

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• Use Your Type System
  

  plt practices
  

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• The MonTana Mini Computer
  

  compsci retrocomputing
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Technomancy
  

  programming
  

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• Fallout's Memory Model
  

  video c games
  

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• That time I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
  

  performance
  

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• PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NVIDIA is full of shit
  

  hardware rant
  

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• Anubis Pilot Project Report - June 2025
  

  pdf ai
  

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• Recent Archive of Our Own outage was caused by integer exhaustion
  

  databases scaling web
  

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• mawkdown, a lightweight, line-oriented(ish) text markup tool implemented in awk
  

  unix web
  

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• Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly
  

  compilers python
  

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• Why I got rid of all my neovim plugins
  

  vim
  

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• OpenMW 0.49.0 Released
  

  games release
  

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• What clever tools/workflows do you use to manage development environments?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
  

  hardware performance
  

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• When AI Codes, What’s Left for me?
  

  transcript vibecoding
  

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• The Eternal Mainframe
  

  browsers historical philosophy
  

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• Tiny Great Languages: MOUSE
  

  concatenative retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You MUST listen to RFC 2119
  

  satire
  

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• A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel
  

  debugging linux
  

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• You should delete tests
  

  testing
  

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• using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Yet another ZIP trick
  

  security
  

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• clamp / median / range
  

  programming
  

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• This Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment
  

  practices
  

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• OpenBao, the community fork of Vault, released v2.3.1 with namespaces
  

  release security
  

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• The Hell of FFIX Tetra Master
  

  games ml
  

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• Emoji Kitchen - Browse Google's unique emoji combinations
  

  web
  

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• Helix language
  

  plt
  

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• Parsing Layout, or: Haskell's Syntax is a Mess
  

  haskell
  

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