The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• what is a build system, anyway?
  

  programming
  

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• Build Systems A La Carte (2018)
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024)
  

  editors
  

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• Rats Play Doom
  

  games
  

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• Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
  

  compilers
  

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• icl: Interactive Common Lisp: an enhanced REPL
  

  lisp
  

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• A distraction-free writing environment
  

  editors
  

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• Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags
  

  javascript
  

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• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Using nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor
  

  editors
  

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• The <time> element should actually do something
  

  a11y web
  

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• Indices point between elements (2015)
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?
  

  performance rant
  

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• I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
  

  gleam programming
  

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• The state of the kernel Rust experiment
  

  linux rust
  

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• VACUUM Is a Lie: About Your Indexes
  

  databases
  

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• YOCaml a framework used to describe static site generator
  

  ml web
  

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• 50 years of proof assistants
  

  compsci historical
  

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• The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System
  

  hardware
  

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• The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral (2022)
  

  art
  

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• Concrete syntax matters, actually
  

  video plt
  

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• Django: what’s new in 6.0
  

  python
  

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• I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one
  

  javascript
  

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• async dns
  

  c networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator
  

  math
  

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• Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
  

  web
  

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• Oils 0.37.0 - Alpine Linux, YSH, and mycpp
  

  release unix
  

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• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
  

  linux
  

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• Being a SysAdmin is hard
  

  devops networking
  

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• Building smaller Docker images faster
  

  devops performance
  

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• Google’s code review practices
  

  practices
  

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• Cosmic Desktop is a fantastic first draft
  

  video linux
  

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• Freeing a Xiaomi Humidifier from the Cloud
  

  hardware
  

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• Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
  

  security unix
  

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• Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
  

  programming rant
  

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• Pop goes the...population count?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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

• Announcing Rust 1.92.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
  

  linux
  

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• The Cost Of a Closure in C
  

  c
  

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• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• CDKTF has been deprecated
  

  devops
  

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• Compressing embedded files in Go
  

  go
  

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• Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
  

  distributed
  

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• Using edge detection to preserve significant features while downsampling
  

  graphics javascript programming
  

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• Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  

  lisp
  

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• Installing Every NixOS Package
  

  nix
  

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• Fish Alpinism
  

  art openbsd
  

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• Litestream VFS
  

  databases
  

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

• Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
  

  linux rust
  

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• How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
  

  ai visualization
  

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• New tag suggestion: "genai-assisted"
  

  meta
  

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• Stop Breaking TLS
  

  rant security
  

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• You Don't Need an ORM
  

  video databases gleam
  

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• My favourite small hash table
  

  c
  

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• Size of Life
  

  art science
  

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• Do Not Optimize Away
  

  performance
  

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• Gin is a very bad software library
  

  go rant web
  

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• Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
  

  compilers
  

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• Linux kernel version numbers
  

  linux
  

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• Maybe we don't need a server
  

  privacy
  

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