The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
  

  pdf ruby
  

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• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
  

  debugging windows
  

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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  

  satire security
  

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• Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
  

  c++ distributed go
  

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• Configuration files are user interfaces
  

  api programming
  

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• Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan wrote APL for Music
  

  apl person
  

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• FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
  

  freebsd illumos
  

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• Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine
  

  video c++
  

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• We have outgrown the Process model
  

  osdev
  

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• The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2023)
  

  mac
  

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

• Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
  

  reversing
  

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• Godot 4.5 release
  

  games release
  

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• You Want Technology With Warts
  

  programming
  

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• Swift 6.2 Released
  

  swift
  

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• Java 25
  

  java release
  

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• Introducing the Constexpr Debugger
  

  c++ debugging
  

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• ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised
  

  security
  

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• How I Use AI
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Smalltalk and Lambda Calculus
  

  plt
  

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• Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2509
  

  games programming release reversing
  

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• WebKit Features in Safari 26.0
  

  browsers ios mac release
  

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

• Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems
  

  programming
  

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• All You Need Is SSH
  

  practices unix
  

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• A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
  

  api science
  

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• The bloat of edge-case first libraries
  

  practices
  

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• Kerberoasting
  

  security windows
  

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• I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement
  

  release
  

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• Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices
  

  hardware security
  

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• LisaGUI
  

  art historical retrocomputing
  

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• Raku
  

  plt
  

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• JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview)
  

  compilers java plt
  

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• Testing the compiler optimizations your code relies on
  

  performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Passkeys are incompatible with open-source software
  

  security
  

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• End of (Windows) 10
  

  event linux windows
  

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• things rust shipped without (2015)
  

  plt rust
  

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• Baba Yaga License
  

  law satire
  

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• Thinking about coding
  

  programming
  

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• Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?
  

  browsers performance web
  

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• Bear is now source-available
  

  law web
  

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• Baby's first type checker
  

  plt
  

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• A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• Lively Linear Lisp (1992)
  

  lisp
  

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• Default Methods in Go
  

  go
  

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• Dyslexic people working in the tech industry
  

  job
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
  

  ruby
  

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• Xz format inadequate for general use
  

  unix
  

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• Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain
  

  email practices
  

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• I Know When You're Vibe Coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Nullable vs nullable in C#
  

  dotnet
  

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• Developing an alt text button for images on my website
  

  css web
  

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• Stable, Mutable References
  

  plt
  

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• Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude
  

  cryptography
  

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• Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment
  

  databases plt
  

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• Inside Windows 3
  

  historical osdev windows
  

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• Prediction-Encoded Pixels: a tiny yet powerful pixel art compression method
  

  graphics
  

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