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

• Zig's Lovely Syntax
  

  zig
  

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• Lobsters client for Emacs
  

  show emacs
  

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• The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple
  

  design historical
  

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• JanetDocs
  

  show lisp
  

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• Why do we even need SIMD instructions ?
  

  performance
  

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• Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
  

  lisp
  

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• What even is distributed systems
  

  distributed
  

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• Notes on a smaller Rust (2019)
  

  plt
  

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• GPTs and feeling left behind
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why I prefer human-readable file formats
  

  practices
  

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• Creating high quality electronics schematics
  

  hardware
  

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• Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
  

  networking
  

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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 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• font-size-adjust Is Useful
  

  design web
  

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• Computational Tyranny
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• What to expect from Debian/trixie
  

  linux
  

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• More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
  

  hardware
  

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• You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed
  

  editors vibecoding
  

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• Python 3.14 release candidate 1 is go
  

  python release
  

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• Is it feasible to start a local forum in 2025?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2
  

  devops
  

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• Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Library of Babel
  

  web
  

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• Introducing swift-erlang-actor-system
  

  erlang swift
  

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• Kelp: A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components
  

  css
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How I build software quickly
  

  practices
  

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• Two weeks of wayback
  

  linux
  

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• You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log
  

  cryptography security
  

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• How Janet's PEG module works
  

  lisp
  

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• Generic interfaces
  

  go
  

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• Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service
  

  cryptography
  

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• WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?
  

  wasm
  

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• Stop putting nix setup in your checked-in .envrc files
  

  nix practices
  

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• Jepsen & TigerBeetle
  

  databases distributed
  

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• #[derive(Clone)] is broken
  

  rust
  

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• systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
  

  linux systemd
  

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• The case against which-key: a polemic
  

  emacs
  

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

• Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell
  

  haskell programming
  

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• wayback: experimental X11 compatibility layer
  

  graphics
  

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• Fil-C
  

  c
  

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• Bought myself an Ampere Altra system
  

  hardware
  

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• Computer and coding books from Usborne (1982-1985)
  

  book pdf hardware programming
  

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• Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world
  

  ai
  

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• EmacsConf 2025 Call for Participation
  

  emacs event
  

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• The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System
  

  pdf lisp retrocomputing
  

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• Avoiding PostgreSQL Pitfalls: The Hidden Cost of Failing Inserts
  

  databases python
  

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• Using Podman hooks to mount persistent ZFS datasets into ephemeral Containers
  

  freebsd virtualization
  

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• I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
  

  reversing security virtualization
  

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• Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
  

  linux networking
  

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