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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Doing My Day Job on Chimera Linux
  

  linux
  

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• Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
  

  web
  

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• People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees
  

  historical merkle-trees
  

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• How I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
  

  c education
  

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• Reflections on Haskell and Rust
  

  haskell programming rust
  

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• `git stage` over `git add`
  

  vcs
  

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• Tail Latency Might Matter More Than You Think (2021)
  

  distributed performance
  

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• History of UNIX Manpages
  

  historical unix
  

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• Google Developer Search Appliance – Proxmox Port
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Zig Community Mirrors
  

  zig
  

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• Maestro now supports GCC
  

  osdev
  

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• From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without a PhD
  

  education
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell
  

  haskell programming
  

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• wayback: experimental X11 compatibility layer
  

  graphics
  

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• Fil-C
  

  c
  

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• Bought myself an Ampere Altra system
  

  hardware
  

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• Computer and coding books from Usborne (1982-1985)
  

  book pdf hardware programming
  

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• Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world
  

  ai
  

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• EmacsConf 2025 Call for Participation
  

  emacs event
  

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• The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System
  

  pdf lisp retrocomputing
  

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• Avoiding PostgreSQL Pitfalls: The Hidden Cost of Failing Inserts
  

  databases python
  

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• Using Podman hooks to mount persistent ZFS datasets into ephemeral Containers
  

  freebsd virtualization
  

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• I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
  

  reversing security virtualization
  

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• Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
  

  linux networking
  

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