The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The GCC compiler backend can now fully bootstrap the Rust compiler
  

  compilers rust
  

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• NixOS 25.05 released
  

  nix release
  

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• Why Algebraic Effects?
  

  plt
  

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• Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my https site
  

  security
  

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• Those Stealthy Botnets
  

  security
  

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• Sandboxing AI Tools with Guix Containers
  

  emacs nix vibecoding
  

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• Emacs dired-mode as a file manager
  

  emacs
  

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• rqlite turns 10: Observations from a decade building Distributed Systems
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Forgotten APL Influences (2016)
  

  pdf apl historical
  

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• The shell and its problems in handling of whitespace (2023)
  

  unix
  

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• Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT
  

  programming
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Copilot Delusion
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Making Postgres distributed with FoundationDB
  

  databases distributed
  

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• The future of Flatpak
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing TypeScript Native Previews
  

  javascript web
  

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• another tale of go.mod bloat
  

  go
  

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• Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
  

  ai
  

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• Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
  

  python
  

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• Tales From Mainframe Modernization
  

  historical
  

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• Claude and I write a utility program
  

  vibecoding
  

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• FreeBSD Status Report 2025Q1
  

  freebsd
  

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• Whippet GC notes on Guile, heuristics, and heap growth
  

  lisp plt
  

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• Configuring Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
  

  security windows
  

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• Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster
  

  c performance rust
  

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• The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess
  

  vibecoding
  

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• My Technological Regrets
  

  practices
  

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• Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs
  

  assembly debugging hardware
  

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• ChatGPT Heard About Eagles Fans
  

  vibecoding
  

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• 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work
  

  programming
  

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• TypeID in Lua
  

  lua web
  

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• Transpiler is a meaningless word (2023)
  

  compilers
  

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• Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts
  

  haskell nix web
  

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• Introducing Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Functional hash tables explained
  

  lisp plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• apply.coop - Matching people with jobs that fit their values & passions
  

  job
  

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• Erlang/OTP 28.0 Release
  

  erlang release
  

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• Vim vs. Kakoune puzzles
  

  editors vim
  

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• KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
  

  security
  

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• Jwno: a tiling WM for Windows, written in Janet
  

  windows
  

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• Litestream: Revamped
  

  databases
  

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• Compiling OCaml to the TI-84+ CE Calculator
  

  compilers hardware ml
  

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• Reading code is still the most effective method to debug multi-thread bug
  

  debugging
  

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• FreeBSD and NetBSD Zig Cross-Compilation Support
  

  freebsd netbsd zig
  

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• Interview: Chief maintainer of Qt project on language independence, KDE, and the pain of Qt 5 to Qt 6
  

  c++ release
  

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• The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
  

  vcs
  

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• Introduction to Bases - Obsidian Help
  

  databases
  

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

• Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
  

  javascript
  

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• Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
  

  games
  

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• An Open File Format for storing the information from a forge such as issues, pull/merge requests, milestones
  

  programming
  

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• Microsoft Edit is now open source
  

  editors
  

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• Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
  

  web
  

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• Is Winter Coming?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Enlightenmentware
  

  programming
  

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• Hypervisor as a Library
  

  linux osdev rust virtualization
  

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• A Python frozenset interpretation of Dependent Type Theory
  

  formalmethods plt
  

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• Open Source Can't Coordinate
  

  linux
  

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• Tag Proposal: concatenative
  

  meta
  

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• Steve Langasek, One of Ubuntu Linux's Leading Lights, Has Died
  

  person
  

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