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

• Nick Wellnhofer steps down as libxml2 maintainer
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Introducing GNOME 49, “Brescia”
  

  linux release
  

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• KDE is now my favorite desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.90.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Steering Committee Retrospective
  

  culture nix
  

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• Shai-Hulud: The novel self-replicating worm infecting hundreds of NPM packages
  

  javascript security
  

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• ZeroFS: 9P, NFS, or block devices on top of S3-compatible storage
  

  distributed
  

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• How can we sandbox our development machines?
  

  ask security
  

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• Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
  

  person
  

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• Making Printed Circuit Boards with Wild Clay
  

  hardware
  

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• Access logging in 2025
  

  practices privacy web
  

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• Pocket Casts, You Altered The Deal, So I Will Alter Your App
  

  android
  

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

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
  

  reversing
  

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• The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Rating 26 years of Java changes
  

  historical java
  

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• Ghostty 1.2.0 - Release Notes
  

  release
  

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• Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually
  

  ml plt
  

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• The E Language
  

  plt
  

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• Rye Tables vs Python/Pandas: A Different Way to Wrangle Data
  

  programming python
  

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• asciinema 3.0 adds live streaming and local-first recording
  

  release
  

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• Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Varnish: 8.0.0 with bonus project news
  

  distributed release
  

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• React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
  

  javascript web
  

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• Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000
  

  retrocomputing
  

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

• Gleam is my new obsession
  

  gleam
  

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• Debian 12 installer promotes US/* time zones
  

  databases devops linux
  

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• a few notes on ratelimiting
  

  security
  

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• Redox Development Priorities for 2025/26
  

  osdev
  

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• The Many Broken Feeds
  

  web
  

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• The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms
  

  performance rust
  

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• Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Weird CPU architectures: the MOV only CPU
  

  hardware
  

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• Basics of Equality Saturation
  

  compilers plt python
  

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• Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
  

  osdev zig
  

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• Pass: Unix Password Manager
  

  linux security
  

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• Diesel 2.3.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design
  

  programming
  

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• AI Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• What Happens After I'm Gone? The Future of the Online Me
  

  philosophy web
  

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• From 19k to 4.2M events/sec: story of a SQLite query optimisation
  

  databases performance
  

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• Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
  

  ai satire
  

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• Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
  

  c++
  

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• oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer
  

  go
  

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• Phishing campaign targeting crates.io users
  

  rust security
  

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• My first CVE
  

  security
  

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• RIP pthread_cancel
  

  networking unix
  

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• Improving state machine code generation
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors zig
  

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

• Stop Outsourcing Thinking
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V)
  

  hardware programming
  

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• First-class merges and cover letters
  

  vcs
  

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• humanely dealing with humungus crawlers
  

  web
  

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• Behind The Scenes of Bun Install
  

  javascript nodejs zig
  

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• Racintosh Plus
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Rust compiler performance survey 2025 results
  

  rust
  

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• Fenwick layout for interval trees
  

  compsci
  

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• Effects as Capabilities in Scala
  

  plt scala
  

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• KDE launches its own distribution (again)
  

  linux
  

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• Jetzig Web Framework for Zig
  

  web zig
  

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• Flox, the Nix Foundation, and NVIDIA Partner for CUDA
  

  ai nix
  

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