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 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Rust 1.92.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
  

  linux
  

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• The Cost Of a Closure in C
  

  c
  

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• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• CDKTF has been deprecated
  

  devops
  

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• Compressing embedded files in Go
  

  go
  

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• Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
  

  distributed
  

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• Using edge detection to preserve significant features while downsampling
  

  graphics javascript programming
  

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• Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  

  lisp
  

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• Installing Every NixOS Package
  

  nix
  

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• Fish Alpinism
  

  art openbsd
  

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• Litestream VFS
  

  databases
  

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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 October 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Typst 0.14: Now accessible
  

  a11y release
  

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• Modern perfect hashing
  

  compsci
  

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• 4 Unconventional Ways to Cast in Typescript
  

  javascript plt
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.17
  

  hardware linux reversing
  

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• Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
  

  databases satire
  

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• Length-extension attacks are still a thing
  

  cryptography
  

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• html-is-a-tree
  

  lisp
  

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• OpenBSD C/C++ Toolchain in the Browser
  

  openbsd wasm
  

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• Luau’s Performance
  

  lua performance
  

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• How to Avoid Fighting Rust Borrow Checker
  

  rust
  

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• Zram Performance Analysis
  

  linux performance
  

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• Tuckr - Stow alternative with symlink checking
  

  devops rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ripgrep 15.0.0
  

  release
  

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• Everybody's so Creative
  

  rust
  

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• Software can be finished
  

  philosophy practices
  

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• The future of Python web services looks GIL-free
  

  python web
  

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• Weird, but Haskell feels easy
  

  haskell
  

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• Scheme Reports at Fifty: Where do we go from here?
  

  lisp
  

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• ./watch
  

  art hardware
  

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• Knowledge creates technical debt
  

  programming
  

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• Tracking Down a Regression in Mesa 3D
  

  debugging linux
  

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• How I made my own web server in Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Using PEGs in Janet
  

  lisp
  

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• Consistent Hashing
  

  programming
  

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