The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Snooping On Slow Builds (Using Syscalls)
  

  compilers performance programming
  

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• pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
  

  python
  

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• Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
  

  distributed science
  

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• NGINX Introduces Native Support for ACME Protocol
  

  web
  

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• Plan 9 Desktop Guide
  

  historical osdev
  

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• Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode
  

  emacs
  

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• Our Paint | A Natural Painting Program
  

  art
  

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• Jujutsu with Radicle
  

  vcs
  

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• Miegakure SIGGRAPH 2025 Talk
  

  video games graphics
  

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• How to rig elections
  

  video security visualization
  

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• Cross-Site Request Forgery
  

  browsers security web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?
  

  performance web
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Hwayne
  

  interview formalmethods person
  

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• The Framework Desktop is a beast
  

  hardware
  

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• Debian 13 "trixie" released
  

  linux release
  

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• an engineer's perspective on hiring
  

  practices
  

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• A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008)
  

  historical
  

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• Partially Matching Zig Enums
  

  programming
  

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• A puzzling Python program
  

  python
  

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• Introducing spindle
  

  nix vcs
  

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• Programming as Extended Cognition
  

  programming
  

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• A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises
  

  api vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu For Busy Devs, Part 2: "How Do I...?"
  

  vcs
  

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• How to help someone use a computer
  

  a11y education
  

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• Wayback 0.2 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Vibe code is legacy code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Long Term Support
  

  databases release
  

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• The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• Reflections on Matrix criticism over the last week
  

  video distributed
  

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• Less Glue, More Product: Why Elixir Shrinks Architectural Complexity
  

  distributed elixir erlang
  

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• This Month in Ladybird - July 2025
  

  browsers
  

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• What Declarative Languages Are (2013)
  

  plt
  

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• Ramblings
  

  practices
  

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• Schematra: Sinatra inspired Chicken web framework
  

  lisp 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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