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 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu For Busy Devs
  

  vcs
  

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• Tailwind is the Worst of All Worlds
  

  css javascript web
  

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• TODOs aren’t for doing
  

  programming
  

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• Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers (2023)
  

  programming
  

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• Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron keyboards
  

  hardware
  

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• Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs
  

  programming
  

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• Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
  

  linux
  

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• Sapling
  

  vcs
  

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• Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
  

  ai
  

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• Automating Away Claude's Bad Habits with Hooks
  

  vibecoding
  

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• devenv 1.8: Progress TUI, SecretSpec Integration, Listing Tasks, and Smaller Containers
  

  nix
  

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• Monads as Graphs (2019)
  

  haskell
  

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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 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reviving Genius
  

  historical mac objectivec
  

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• Compiler bootstrapping in Nixpkgs
  

  nix
  

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• Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
  

  browsers graphics
  

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• Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories
  

  vcs
  

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• Underused Techniques for Effective Emails
  

  practices
  

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• Janet Feature Demos
  

  lisp plt
  

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• How I keep up with AI progress
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Encrypting Files with Passkeys and age
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm (2024)
  

  go practices
  

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• Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
  

  distributed security
  

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• Introducing go-cdc-chunkers: chunk and deduplicate everything
  

  go
  

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• The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
  

  cryptography go law
  

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