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 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• You might not need tmux
  

  unix
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Icefox
  

  interview person
  

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• It's rude to show AI output to people
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How NixOS is built
  

  nix
  

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• agendafs: A filesystem for syncing notes to your calendar
  

  show c unix
  

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• If Odin Had Macros
  

  plt
  

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• Our first outage from LLM-written code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  satire vcs
  

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• Local-first search. A tale of frustrated dreams, utopian user experiences and calculated tradeoffs
  

  databases javascript performance
  

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• 6 Weeks of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
  

  linux security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wren - a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
  

  plt
  

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• TIL: Exception.add_note
  

  python
  

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• copyparty: portable file server with resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, and more
  

  privacy python
  

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• Development shells with Nix: four quick examples
  

  nix
  

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• The JJ VCS Workshop: A Zero-to-Hero Speedrun
  

  vcs
  

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• Resizable structs in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
  

  practices programming
  

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• Test results for AMD Zen 5
  

  hardware performance
  

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• Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving
  

  performance zig
  

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• Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force
  

  law
  

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• Specials (2021)
  

  satire unix
  

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• LLMs are bad at returning code in JSON
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Forgejo v12
  

  release vcs
  

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• The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
  

  video historical programming
  

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• NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency
  

  practices scaling
  

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• Magic The Gathering - Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true
  

  games math
  

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• Engineering the End of Work
  

  ai culture
  

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• How Go 1.24's Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes
  

  go
  

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• Servo adds support for network inspector devtools
  

  browsers
  

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• firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware
  

  linux security
  

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• Asynchrony is not Concurrency
  

  plt zig
  

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• Defeating Dependency Duplication in Tests?
  

  ask practices
  

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• The Mercury Protocol
  

  networking satire
  

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• Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
  

  meta
  

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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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