The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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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 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Renting is for Suckers
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Racket as a first language
  

  education
  

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• Celebrating 20 years of MDN
  

  web
  

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• New Aarch64 Backend
  

  compilers zig
  

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• Using fortune to reinforce habits
  

  practices
  

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• Three HTTP versions later, forms are still a mess
  

  web
  

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• Use Your Type System
  

  plt practices
  

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• The MonTana Mini Computer
  

  compsci retrocomputing
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Technomancy
  

  programming
  

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• Fallout's Memory Model
  

  video c games
  

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• That time I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
  

  performance
  

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• PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
  

  databases
  

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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 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm unsatisfied with easing functions
  

  design javascript visualization web
  

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• Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before
  

  go performance
  

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• Two Simple Rules to Fix Code Reviews
  

  practices
  

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• lsr: ls but with io_uring
  

  show performance zig
  

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• Zig's new Writer
  

  zig
  

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• North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
  

  javascript security
  

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• Let Me Cook You a Vulnerability: Exploiting the Thermomix TM5
  

  security
  

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• Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave
  

  browsers hardware
  

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• How I Became the First Linux User in India
  

  historical linux
  

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• Terminal Trove - The $HOME of all things in the terminal
  

  debugging freebsd linux unix
  

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• Project SERVFAIL: one year in
  

  networking
  

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• Blender HDR and the reference white issue
  

  graphics
  

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