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 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors vim zig
  

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• Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via third-party upgrade kit
  

  hardware
  

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• Reminder about Framework Laptop
  

  culture
  

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• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
  

  hardware
  

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• GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
  

  security
  

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• Leaving Intel
  

  performance person
  

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• Should CSS be Constraints?
  

  css
  

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• I want a better build executor
  

  programming
  

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• Perl's decline was cultural
  

  perl
  

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• What's the Point of Learning Functional Programming?
  

  haskell
  

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• Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• The Resonant Computing Manifesto
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• jujutsu v0.36.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
  

  performance rust
  

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• Fairphone open-sources Fairphone 5 and 6 software, and Moments switch
  

  android
  

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• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
  

  go rust zig
  

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• ][ Hello blog
  

  show go
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Aks
  

  person
  

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• Typewriter plotters
  

  hardware historical
  

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• Why ed(1)?
  

  editors
  

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• bcachefs 1.33.0 - reconcile
  

  linux release
  

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• APL for Plan9
  

  apl
  

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• JavaScript Announced 30 Years Ago
  

  historical javascript
  

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• Golang’s Big Miss on Memory Arenas
  

  go
  

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

• Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
  

  hardware science
  

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• Zigbook is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
  

  law zig
  

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• Migrating Dillo from GitHub
  

  vcs
  

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• Advent of Code 2025
  

  programming
  

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• The Clade folding text editor
  

  editors
  

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• Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
  

  windows
  

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• Landlock-ing Linux
  

  linux security
  

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• GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
  

  vcs
  

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• Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Entire Network
  

  networking nix web
  

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• Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The HTTP Query Method
  

  web
  

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• Oops! It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting NVIDIA's GPU Linux drivers
  

  c linux security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
  

  databases distributed scaling
  

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• Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC is Not at Fault)
  

  debugging java
  

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• Bauble
  

  graphics programming
  

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• Electron vs. Tauri
  

  javascript rust
  

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• ML-KEM Mythbusting
  

  cryptography math security
  

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• An update on the farphone's battery
  

  linux
  

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• Bringing Emacs Support to OCaml's LSP Server with ocaml-eglot
  

  editors emacs ml
  

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• A foundation for building tools on the AT Protocol using Unison
  

  distributed release
  

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• The Unbrickable Pledge
  

  hardware
  

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• How good engineers write bad code at big companies
  

  programming
  

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• Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
  

  debugging emacs perl
  

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• Bending Emacs - Episode 6: Overlays
  

  video emacs
  

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