The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Death by a thousand slops
  

  security
  

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• Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
  

  nix
  

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• OpenZFS Bug Ported to Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Automerge 3.0
  

  distributed release
  

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• The sound of inevitability
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Diving into Plasma Bigscreen
  

  linux
  

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• Bedrock: A tiny, portable 8-bit virtual computer (uxn fork)
  

  osdev virtualization
  

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• Wikipedia outage report for May's Pope traffic spike
  

  devops
  

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• Helix 25.07 Highlights
  

  editors
  

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• Game of Trees Hub
  

  openbsd
  

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• Initial implementation of the experimental C++ Lifetime Safety Analysis (-Wexperimental-lifetime-safety) has just landed in Clang
  

  c++
  

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• Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Faking a JPEG
  

  graphics security
  

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• Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
  

  networking openbsd
  

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• Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet
  

  hardware programming
  

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• Placing functions
  

  rust
  

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• Dyson Sphere Program's new multithreading framework
  

  games performance
  

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• Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’
  

  c compilers
  

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• Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request
  

  law
  

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• Hanami and the elephant in the room
  

  ruby
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies
  

  cryptography
  

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• Multi-player Durable Stream Playground
  

  databases distributed
  

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

• Anubis now supports non-JS challenges
  

  release web
  

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• A remembrance of Matthew S. Trout (mst)
  

  perl person
  

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• Jai Demo and Design Explanation
  

  video plt
  

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• new Date("wtf")
  

  javascript
  

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• Vibe Coding Casino: Rise of programming by slot machine
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
  

  databases
  

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• jank is C++
  

  c++ clojure compilers plt
  

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• Closures for Hare
  

  plt
  

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• Unveiling the Open Source heroes that power our digital infrastructure
  

  person
  

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• Clustered PostgreSQL
  

  devops
  

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• sipgate discovers null-pointer-dereference in Mediatek VoLTE stack firmware
  

  networking security
  

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• Forget Borrow Checkers: C3 Solved Memory Lifetimes With Scopes
  

  c compilers plt programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Variadic Generics ideas that won’t work for Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Monitoring my Homelab, Simply
  

  distributed go networking
  

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• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• About Clew
  

  web
  

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• Get the location of the ISS using DNS
  

  distributed
  

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• An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
  

  c rust
  

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• Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday
  

  devops
  

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• MicroHs, a tiny Haskell Compiler
  

  video compilers haskell
  

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• (Quite) A Few Words About Async
  

  distributed programming
  

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• What's //go:nosplit for?
  

  go
  

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• Lessons From Creating My First Text Adventure
  

  games
  

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• Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using
  

  mac
  

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

• Phrase origin: Why do we “call” functions?
  

  historical plt
  

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• The Tree Borrows paper is finally published
  

  formalmethods plt rust
  

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• Hare by Example
  

  programming
  

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• IBM Power11 hits the market this month
  

  hardware
  

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• CVE-2025-48384: Breaking git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
  

  security vcs
  

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• toml v0.9
  

  rust
  

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• Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Git
  

  security vcs
  

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• Frame of preference – A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
  

  historical mac
  

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• Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby
  

  ruby
  

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• Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Hippocratic License
  

  law
  

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• Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) 2025: Types, Logic, and Formal Methods
  

  video education formalmethods plt
  

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