The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Infinite Mac OS X
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Rolling the ladder up behind us
  

  culture
  

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• 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
  

  programming
  

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• Elliptic curves as art
  

  art math
  

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• Revisiting Knuth’s “Premature Optimization” Paper
  

  performance
  

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• My A11y Journey
  

  a11y linux
  

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• Zig And Rust (2023)
  

  plt rust zig
  

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• JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
  

  practices rant web
  

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• A Dynamic Graph Approach to Immediate Cycle Collection
  

  compilers lisp
  

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• So you want to serialize some DER?
  

  c++ compilers rust vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Metaobject Protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do (1993)
  

  pdf lisp
  

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

• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
  

  browsers historical security
  

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• Breaking my Security Assignments
  

  security
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
  

  programming
  

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• How the Final Cartridge III Freezer works
  

  hardware historical
  

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• The Art of Lisp & Writing
  

  lisp practices
  

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• Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
  

  hardware historical
  

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• filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask
  

  databases zig
  

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• StarMalloc: verified memory allocator
  

  compsci formalmethods security
  

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• HTML WARDen (an HTML-based wiki)
  

  release
  

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• A meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
  

  philosophy
  

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• Self-referential abstractions: A quick look at the wacky epistemology of analog circuitry
  

  hardware
  

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• Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
  

  api distributed scaling
  

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

• Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
  

  compsci
  

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• A tale of two Claudes
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Munal OS: A graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
  

  osdev wasm
  

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• Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages (2022)
  

  plt zig
  

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• AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Building a Debugger: Write a Native x64 Debugger From Scratch
  

  c++ debugging
  

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• Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess
  

  assembly compilers concatenative
  

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• Qwen3 embedding models
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
  

  graphics linux
  

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• Makefile.md - Possibly Use(ful|less) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown
  

  programming
  

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• The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The high-level OS challenge
  

  linux osdev rust
  

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

• Zig's self-hosted x86 backend is now default in Debug mode
  

  zig
  

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• Apple WWDC 2025
  

  event ios mac swift
  

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• Is Rust faster than C?
  

  c performance rust
  

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• Why doesn’t Rust care more about compiler performance?
  

  rust
  

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• killing X11
  

  rant unix
  

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• LLMs are cheap
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms
  

  distributed web
  

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• Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
  

  security
  

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• Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More
  

  linux
  

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• Unlocking the Motorola G23 (and some words on Motorola)
  

  android reversing security
  

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• How I program with Agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• AI Angst
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
  

  philosophy
  

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• I made a font
  

  design
  

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• A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar
  

  browsers
  

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• Car Physics for Games
  

  games
  

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• On File Formats
  

  philosophy practices
  

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• Asserting Implications
  

  zig
  

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• Mathpad: A mathematical keypad for students and professionals
  

  hardware
  

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• DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum
  

  python
  

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• Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python
  

  python
  

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• Against Curry-Howard Mysticism
  

  plt
  

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• HTML is like a camera
  

  web
  

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• ROCKNIX is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices
  

  games linux osdev
  

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