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

• Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
  

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• Disallow code usage with a custom `clippy.toml`
  

  rust
  

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• Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification
  

  browsers
  

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• Why BSDs?
  

  freebsd netbsd openbsd
  

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• We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
  

  freebsd openbsd
  

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• The Lions Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• Signal Polls: Yes, no, maybe (yes!)
  

  release
  

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• A battery included hacker's file manager with VIM inspired keybind in a single binary
  

  rust vim
  

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• LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Twenty years of Django releases
  

  python web
  

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• Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
  

  games historical
  

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• A Function Inliner for Wasmtime and Cranelift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
  

  networking rust
  

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• What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
  

  education practices
  

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• Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit
  

  linux
  

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• Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
  

  freebsd illumos linux netbsd openbsd
  

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• The lost cause of the Lisp machines
  

  hardware lisp retrocomputing
  

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• A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default
  

  javascript
  

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• My First Fifteen Compilers
  

  compilers
  

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• Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
  

  culture hardware practices
  

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• WhatsApp Census
  

  pdf security
  

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• An actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5
  

  erlang ml
  

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• What Killed Perl?
  

  perl
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To
  

  practices
  

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• Rebecca Heineman - from homelessness to porting Doom
  

  transcript games
  

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• My next chapter with Mastodon
  

  person web
  

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• Chuck Moore retires from colorforth after latest Windows breaks rendering
  

  video concatenative
  

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• 6 years after too much crypto
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.94 “Açaí na tigela”
  

  nix
  

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• A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua
  

  show lua web
  

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• Garbage collection is useful
  

  programming
  

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• Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens
  

  networking rant
  

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• Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy
  

  devops rust
  

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• A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
  

  devops nix
  

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• How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
  

  games historical networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• strace-macos: A clone of the strace command for macOS
  

  debugging mac
  

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• JavaScript engines zoo
  

  javascript performance
  

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• Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets
  

  devops linux systemd virtualization
  

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• Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython
  

  python rust
  

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• The Cameras Tracking You = A Security Nightmare
  

  video security
  

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• Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey
  

  rust
  

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• Giving C a Superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
  

  c programming
  

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• Goofing on Meta's AI Crawler
  

  ai
  

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• Towards interplanetary QUIC traffic
  

  networking rust science
  

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• Typechecking is undecideable when 'type' is a type (1989)
  

  pdf math plt
  

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• Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers (2015)
  

  practices programming
  

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• sit: Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
  

  browsers
  

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• Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript
  

  web
  

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• librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
  

  android
  

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• $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
  

  linux
  

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• your project fucking sucks
  

  culture practices rant
  

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• Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• Jonathan Blow On Programming Language Design
  

  video compilers programming
  

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• Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++
  

  c c++
  

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• brimstone: New JavaScript engine written in Rust
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Godbolt's Rule
  

  transcript performance
  

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• Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
  

  hardware
  

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• Small functions considered harmful (2017)
  

  programming
  

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