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 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm never going back to Matrix
  

  rant
  

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• I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec
  

  graphics performance
  

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• Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment
  

  show education historical
  

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• Weather Model based on ADS-B
  

  hardware visualization
  

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• Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
  

  vim vscode
  

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• No more Erlang manuals
  

  erlang
  

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• 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
  

  practices programming
  

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• Linux 6.16 changelog
  

  linux release
  

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• rules_derive: deriving using macro_rules
  

  release rust
  

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• The Bard and The Shell
  

  unix
  

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• From XML to JSON to CBOR
  

  historical
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
  

  freebsd
  

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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 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm unsatisfied with easing functions
  

  design javascript visualization web
  

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• Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before
  

  go performance
  

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• Two Simple Rules to Fix Code Reviews
  

  practices
  

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• lsr: ls but with io_uring
  

  show performance zig
  

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• Zig's new Writer
  

  zig
  

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• North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
  

  javascript security
  

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• Let Me Cook You a Vulnerability: Exploiting the Thermomix TM5
  

  security
  

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• Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave
  

  browsers hardware
  

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• How I Became the First Linux User in India
  

  historical linux
  

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• Terminal Trove - The $HOME of all things in the terminal
  

  debugging freebsd linux unix
  

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• Project SERVFAIL: one year in
  

  networking
  

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• Blender HDR and the reference white issue
  

  graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Low-Impact Keybase Impersonation Issue on Lobsters
  

  security web
  

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• xq: Query XML data using XPath
  

  show go programming
  

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• A plan for SIMD
  

  performance rust
  

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• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
  

  ai
  

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• Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?
  

  networking rant
  

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• Pijul - Elpe. Yaks big. Razors bigger
  

  nix vcs
  

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• What was Radiant AI, anyway?
  

  games
  

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• Ditching HAProxy (in my homelab)
  

  devops networking
  

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• MCP vs API
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Getting started with Qt, without the nonsense
  

  graphics programming
  

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• 105 vibe-coded tools
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Too Many Open Files
  

  unix
  

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