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 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back
  

  a11y linux
  

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• Changelog Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
  

  culture
  

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• Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
  

  distributed scaling
  

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• TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault
  

  freebsd linux virtualization
  

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• branchless development (2015)
  

  openbsd practices
  

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• bold linker v0.2.0 release - bold just got faster
  

  compilers
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.93 “Bici Bici”
  

  nix release
  

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• Stability by Design
  

  clojure
  

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• Slow Software for a Burning World
  

  elixir philosophy practices
  

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• eBPF mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
  

  dotnet linux networking
  

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• Easy parsing with reasonable error messages in OCaml's Angstrom
  

  ml
  

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• Static as a Server
  

  javascript web
  

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

• Migrating away from Rust
  

  dotnet games rust
  

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• Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• What the heck is AEAD again?
  

  cryptography programming
  

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• OpenBSD 7.7
  

  openbsd release
  

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• Giving software away for free
  

  python wasm web
  

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• A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
  

  ai
  

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• anticrawl
  

  web
  

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• Why performance optimization is hard work
  

  performance
  

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• Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
  

  windows
  

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• Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
  

  c++ programming
  

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• Packed Data support in Haskell
  

  haskell
  

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• Python sub-micro GPIO
  

  hardware performance python
  

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

• The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org
  

  css web
  

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• Implementing Unsure Calculator in 100 lines of Haskell
  

  haskell math
  

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• Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
  

  law
  

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• How decentralized is the fediverse, really?
  

  distributed
  

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• Bevy 0.16
  

  games graphics release rust
  

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• PATH should be a system call
  

  osdev
  

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• How I Got Hacked: A Warning about Malicious PoCs
  

  security
  

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• Don’t Delete – Just Don’t (2009)
  

  databases
  

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• Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems
  

  linux security
  

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• Towards Vortex 1.0
  

  databases
  

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• Requirements change until they don't
  

  testing
  

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• devenv 1.6: Extensible Ad-Hoc Nix Environments
  

  nix
  

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