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

• Stop Outsourcing Thinking
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V)
  

  hardware programming
  

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• First-class merges and cover letters
  

  vcs
  

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• humanely dealing with humungus crawlers
  

  web
  

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• Behind The Scenes of Bun Install
  

  javascript nodejs zig
  

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• Racintosh Plus
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Rust compiler performance survey 2025 results
  

  rust
  

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• Fenwick layout for interval trees
  

  compsci
  

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• Effects as Capabilities in Scala
  

  plt scala
  

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• KDE launches its own distribution (again)
  

  linux
  

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• Jetzig Web Framework for Zig
  

  web zig
  

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• Flox, the Nix Foundation, and NVIDIA Partner for CUDA
  

  ai nix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• "This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why?
  

  cryptography historical
  

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• Run a legal LTE network at home for $100
  

  networking
  

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• Are We Decentralized Yet?
  

  distributed science
  

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• Jujutsu for everyone
  

  vcs
  

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• Sometimes Software is Done, or Why Hugo Why
  

  rant
  

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• Three years of building no-code software for grassroots political organizations
  

  show practices
  

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• NetSurf on reMarkable 2
  

  programming
  

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• We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules
  

  c++
  

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• Quirks of Common Lisp Types
  

  lisp
  

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• Quake's PVS: A hidden gem of rendering optimization
  

  video compsci
  

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• Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe?
  

  android security
  

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• gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment available exclusively in GhostBSD as a community flavor
  

  freebsd objectivec release
  

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

• Big O
  

  compsci
  

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• Understanding Jujutsu bookmarks
  

  vcs
  

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• Materialized views are obviously useful
  

  databases
  

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• rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust
  

  compilers rust
  

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• The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare
  

  javascript networking rust web
  

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• bubbletea-rs: A rust implementation of Bubbletea
  

  rust
  

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• RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
  

  programming
  

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• nitro: a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  

  unix
  

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• To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
  

  practices
  

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• Optimizing our way through Metroid
  

  games testing
  

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• Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
  

  distributed
  

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• Retry Loop Retry
  

  zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• always bet on text (2014)
  

  programming
  

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• The Hype is the Product
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Sync primitives are Functionally Complete
  

  api
  

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• I built my blog with C preprocessor macros
  

  c web
  

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• The Math Is Haunted
  

  math
  

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• Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot
  

  go
  

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• 2000 words about arrays and tables
  

  compsci rant
  

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• QUIC for the kernel
  

  linux networking
  

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• The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1
  

  programming
  

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• Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Emacs: The MacOS Bug
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Renting is for Suckers
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Racket as a first language
  

  education
  

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• Celebrating 20 years of MDN
  

  web
  

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• New Aarch64 Backend
  

  compilers zig
  

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• Using fortune to reinforce habits
  

  practices
  

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• Three HTTP versions later, forms are still a mess
  

  web
  

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• Use Your Type System
  

  plt practices
  

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• The MonTana Mini Computer
  

  compsci retrocomputing
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Technomancy
  

  programming
  

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• Fallout's Memory Model
  

  video c games
  

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• That time I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
  

  performance
  

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• PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
  

  databases
  

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