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

• Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To
  

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• Rebecca Heineman - from homelessness to porting Doom
  

  transcript games
  

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• My next chapter with Mastodon
  

  person web
  

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• Chuck Moore retires from colorforth after latest Windows breaks rendering
  

  video concatenative
  

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• 6 years after too much crypto
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.94 “Açaí na tigela”
  

  nix
  

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• A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua
  

  show lua web
  

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• Garbage collection is useful
  

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• Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens
  

  networking rant
  

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• Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy
  

  devops rust
  

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• A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
  

  devops nix
  

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• How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
  

  games historical networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
  

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• Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript
  

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• librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
  

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• $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
  

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• your project fucking sucks
  

  culture practices rant
  

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• Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• Jonathan Blow On Programming Language Design
  

  video compilers programming
  

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• Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++
  

  c c++
  

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• brimstone: New JavaScript engine written in Rust
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Godbolt's Rule
  

  transcript performance
  

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• Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
  

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• Small functions considered harmful (2017)
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NixCon 2025 Trip Report
  

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• Not a Robot
  

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• Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
  

  security
  

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• The Napkin project
  

  book math
  

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• DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
  

  debugging graphics windows
  

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• I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing
  

  historical windows
  

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• 9 Things Every Fresh Graduate Should Know About Software Performance
  

  performance
  

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• Overview of Modern CSS Features (2025 Edition)
  

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• @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option
  

  javascript
  

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• Protect your keys with the Secure Enclave
  

  transcript ios security
  

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• My Hacking Simulator runs on a Cyberdeck
  

  games hardware
  

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• Hacking with AI SASTs: An overview of ‘AI Security Engineers’ / ‘LLM Security Scanners’ for Penetration Testers and Security Teams
  

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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
  

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

• Use Firefox in 2025
  

  android browsers privacy web
  

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• Avoid the nightmare bicycle
  

  design
  

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• TigerBeetle Architecture
  

  databases distributed zig
  

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• The Fibrovisor: Turning a dollar store fibre optic wand into a low resolution display
  

  video hardware
  

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• Do not run any Cargo commands on untrusted projects
  

  rust security
  

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• Falsehoods programmers believe about languages
  

  programming
  

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• Making Flow – Interview with director Gints Zilbalodis —
  

  art graphics
  

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• The power of interning: making a time series database 2000x smaller in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• The Botfly Test: Characterizing parasitic automated behavior in online communities
  

  culture
  

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• You Need Much Less Memory than Time
  

  compsci
  

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• A float walks into a gradual type system
  

  plt
  

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• HATETRIS - Obsession, Friendship, and World Records
  

  audio transcript rust
  

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