The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatory
  

  rust vcs
  

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• Introducing the Forklift Certified License
  

  law
  

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• Be Simple
  

  api rust
  

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• Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?
  

  zig
  

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• Apple: SSH and FileVault
  

  mac
  

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• Type Branding in Typescript
  

  javascript plt
  

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• Vulkan graphics in OCaml vs C
  

  graphics ml
  

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• The Blots Programming Language
  

  programming
  

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• Faking ADTs and GADTs in Languages That Shouldn't Have Them
  

  plt
  

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• History of the GEM Desktop Environment
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Building a $3000 Pi AI cluster for fun
  

  hardware
  

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• self-reliant programmer manifesto
  

  philosophy programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
  

  reversing
  

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• The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Rating 26 years of Java changes
  

  historical java
  

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• Ghostty 1.2.0 - Release Notes
  

  release
  

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• Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually
  

  ml plt
  

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• The E Language
  

  plt
  

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• Rye Tables vs Python/Pandas: A Different Way to Wrangle Data
  

  programming python
  

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• asciinema 3.0 adds live streaming and local-first recording
  

  release
  

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• Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Varnish: 8.0.0 with bonus project news
  

  distributed release
  

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• React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
  

  javascript web
  

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• Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 996 – There is cost to your lifestyle
  

  practices
  

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• Use singular nouns for database table names
  

  databases practices
  

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• Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
  

  javascript programming
  

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• Capitalization of Initialisms (2009)
  

  practices
  

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• Basecamp Campfire is now open source
  

  ruby web
  

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• Leptos
  

  rust web
  

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• Ray Tracing in One Weekend
  

  graphics
  

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• Oldest recorded transaction
  

  databases
  

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• The day Return became Enter
  

  historical
  

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• Type Checking is a Symptom, Not a Solution
  

  plt
  

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• ICFP contest 2025
  

  programming
  

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• Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025)
  

  pdf ml
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jujutsu v0.33.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• Git exclude, a handy feature you might not know about
  

  vcs
  

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• Faster Rust builds on Mac
  

  performance rust
  

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• Let's rename the "vibecoding" tag to "llms"
  

  meta vibecoding
  

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• How we made Kagi Assistant load twice as fast
  

  performance web
  

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• The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Why ML Needs a New Programming Language
  

  audio ml plt
  

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• Look Out For Bugs
  

  debugging testing
  

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• Serious Shanns: Comic Sans for hackers
  

  art design
  

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• Slint 1.13 Released with Live-Preview for Rust and C++
  

  c++ release rust
  

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• You Don't Need Animations
  

  practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My other email client is a daemon
  

  emacs
  

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• Let `jj absorb` help you keep a clean commit history
  

  vcs
  

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• Default musl allocator considered harmful (to performance)
  

  c performance
  

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• NASA’s 10 Rules for Safety-Critical Code
  

  practices
  

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• The Month of AI Bugs 2025
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Optique: Type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript
  

  javascript
  

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• Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine
  

  ml
  

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• Tag-based logging
  

  practices programming
  

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• Why is my device a touchpad and a mouse and a keyboard?
  

  linux
  

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• grug.design
  

  design practices
  

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• the core of rust
  

  rust
  

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• AUR Chaos malware: an analysis
  

  security
  

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