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 September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
  

  pdf ruby
  

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• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
  

  debugging windows
  

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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  

  satire security
  

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• Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
  

  c++ distributed go
  

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• Configuration files are user interfaces
  

  api programming
  

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• Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan wrote APL for Music
  

  apl person
  

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• FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
  

  freebsd illumos
  

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• Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine
  

  video c++
  

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• We have outgrown the Process model
  

  osdev
  

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• The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2023)
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What's cooking on SourceHut? Q3 2025
  

  release
  

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• Faster linking times with 1.90.0 stable on Linux using the LLD linker
  

  performance rust
  

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• Next.js Is Infuriating
  

  nodejs web
  

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• IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat
  

  video historical
  

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• Debugging Rustler on illumos
  

  elixir illumos rust
  

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• The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
  

  linux
  

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• Of Rats and Ratchets (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• Saturation and the Triumph of History: How most of the behavior of Tech Leaders since 2016 can be explained by smartphone market saturation
  

  culture
  

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• Wikidata and Mundaneum - The Triumph of the Commons
  

  clojure databases
  

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• Nimony: Design principles
  

  plt programming
  

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• The ASCII Side of the Moon
  

  art science visualization
  

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• Automatic updating Spotify status... without JavaScript
  

  css web
  

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

• This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
  

  lua vim
  

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• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
  

  practices
  

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• All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs (2021)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Why I prefer rST [reStructuredText] to Markdown (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
  

  illumos
  

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• wrkflw: Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally
  

  testing
  

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• Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
  

  databases
  

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• Recto — a truly 2D language
  

  plt
  

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• NixOS & Flakes Book
  

  book nix
  

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• Customizing Lisp REPLs
  

  lisp
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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