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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
  

  css
  

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• An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With
  

  zig
  

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• Join the Lobsters Blog Carnival
  

  event
  

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• Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult
  

  ios mac programming
  

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• Expert LSP: Official Elixir Language Server
  

  editors elixir
  

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• Debian 13: My list of exciting new features
  

  linux
  

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• Default search engine: Wikipedia
  

  privacy
  

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• Guessing game: Haskell style
  

  haskell
  

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• Printing labels via SSH with Raspberry Pi Zero and Nix
  

  debugging hardware nix reversing
  

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• Pyret: A programming language for programming education
  

  education plt
  

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• Optimising for maintainability - Gleam in production at Strand
  

  gleam
  

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• Style your underlines
  

  css
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Open Source is one person
  

  programming
  

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• Sometimes CPU cores are odd
  

  web
  

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• GMP damages AMD Zen 5 CPUs
  

  hardware
  

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• I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS
  

  android privacy
  

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• Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Block ads and trackers
  

  privacy web
  

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• Making Minecraft Spherical
  

  games
  

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• State of the art for reducing executable size with heavily optimized program
  

  c++ practices
  

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• Rupert’s property: cut a hole in a polyhedron big enough for an identical copy to slide through
  

  math
  

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• Implementing Forth in Go and C
  

  c concatenative go
  

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• The Koka programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions
  

  compilers plt programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
  

  graphics reversing
  

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• So many conferences are mid. Why was BSC 2025 so good?
  

  event
  

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• Uncertain<T>
  

  swift
  

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• The unexpected productivity boost of Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Inside Zig's New Writer
  

  zig
  

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• How "special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)
  

  historical
  

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• We should rethink how we teach people to code
  

  education practices
  

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• Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
  

  programming security
  

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• Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison (2019)
  

  lisp performance
  

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• shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019)
  

  c++ performance
  

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• GNU Artanis - Web app framework for Scheme
  

  lisp web
  

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• Das Problem mit German Strings
  

  databases
  

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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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