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 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 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
  

  law reversing
  

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• How Perplexity is Evading Anti-crawling Measures
  

  networking
  

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• The Q Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• More retrocomputing, less nostalgia
  

  philosophy retrocomputing
  

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• The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
  

  ai rant satire
  

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• So you want to parse a PDF?
  

  programming
  

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• Maybe the Fastest Disk Usage Program on macOS
  

  mac performance
  

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• How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
  

  browsers performance
  

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• Why Semantic HTML Still Matters
  

  web
  

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• The Generativity Pattern in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• HTMX is hard so let's get it right
  

  web
  

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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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