Daily Lobsters for 2025-08-31

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Appealing the ban of user friendlysock
  

  meta
  

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• Linus Torvalds marks bcachefs as "externally maintained"
  

  linux
  

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• Niri v25.08
  

  linux release rust
  

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• 10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End
  

  compilers
  

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• snuffle / salsa / chacha
  

  cryptography historical
  

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• SQLite's Durability Settings are a Mess
  

  databases
  

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• Why I use Debian
  

  linux
  

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• God created the real numbers
  

  historical math philosophy
  

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• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
  

  practices
  

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• Triangle Grids
  

  games math
  

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• The best way to advertise a language
  

  plt practices
  

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• Mystical Postscript
  

  art plt
  

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