The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
  

  pdf ruby
  

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• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
  

  debugging windows
  

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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  

  satire security
  

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• Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
  

  c++ distributed go
  

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• Configuration files are user interfaces
  

  api programming
  

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• Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan wrote APL for Music
  

  apl person
  

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• FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
  

  freebsd illumos
  

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• Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine
  

  video c++
  

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• We have outgrown the Process model
  

  osdev
  

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• The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2023)
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design
  

  programming
  

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• AI Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• What Happens After I'm Gone? The Future of the Online Me
  

  philosophy web
  

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• From 19k to 4.2M events/sec: story of a SQLite query optimisation
  

  databases performance
  

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• Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
  

  ai satire
  

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• Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
  

  c++
  

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• oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer
  

  go
  

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• Phishing campaign targeting crates.io users
  

  rust security
  

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• My first CVE
  

  security
  

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• RIP pthread_cancel
  

  networking unix
  

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• Improving state machine code generation
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors zig
  

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

• Passkeys are incompatible with open-source software
  

  security
  

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• End of (Windows) 10
  

  event linux windows
  

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• things rust shipped without (2015)
  

  plt rust
  

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• Baba Yaga License
  

  law satire
  

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• Thinking about coding
  

  programming
  

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• Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?
  

  browsers performance web
  

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• Bear is now source-available
  

  law web
  

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• Baby's first type checker
  

  plt
  

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• A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• Lively Linear Lisp (1992)
  

  lisp
  

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• Default Methods in Go
  

  go
  

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• Dyslexic people working in the tech industry
  

  job
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Enterprise Experience
  

  practices satire
  

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• “Email is Easy” email address quiz
  

  email
  

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• Various desktop Linux tips for newbies
  

  linux
  

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• Is Gleam production ready?
  

  gleam
  

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• LLMs aren’t world models
  

  ai
  

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• A programmer's field guide to assertions
  

  practices
  

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• Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
  

  math
  

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• Everything I know about good system design
  

  distributed
  

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• Bullfrog in the Dungeon
  

  games historical
  

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• Ambient age verification
  

  privacy web
  

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• Who does your assistant serve?
  

  ai
  

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• Beyond Booleans: Propositions in Lean
  

  math plt
  

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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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