The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement
  

  programming
  

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• Go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in Go 1.26
  

  go
  

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• Fun Friday Question: What's the Best Way you've Broken Prod?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres
  

  databases performance
  

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• Flight Recorder in Go 1.25
  

  debugging go
  

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• Open Social
  

  distributed web
  

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• Property-Based Testing of OCaml 5’s Runtime System
  

  pdf testing
  

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• It is actually surprising that Earley can efficiently parse C, ambiguities and all
  

  plt
  

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• Checkboxes that kill your product (2013)
  

  browsers design
  

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• Dotfiles with make
  

  linux
  

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• New PopOS beta shipped with Cosmis DE
  

  linux release
  

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• Informed poll
  

  c++ rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Libghostty Is Coming
  

  zig
  

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• Imagining a Language without Booleans
  

  plt
  

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• Wild Linker Update - 0.6.0
  

  performance rust
  

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• Crypto Miner in hotio/qbittorrent
  

  security
  

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• Altoids by the Fistful
  

  culture philosophy vibecoding
  

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• AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Go has added Valgrind support
  

  go
  

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• Testing is better than Data Structures and Algorithms
  

  testing
  

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• A long look at NetBSD 10.1
  

  netbsd
  

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• Some observations concerning large programming efforts (1964)
  

  pdf historical practices
  

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• The FLP theorem
  

  distributed
  

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• Steve Jobs, Jef Raskin, and the first great war for your thumbs (2023)
  

  hardware historical
  

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

• Big O
  

  compsci
  

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• Understanding Jujutsu bookmarks
  

  vcs
  

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• Materialized views are obviously useful
  

  databases
  

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• rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust
  

  compilers rust
  

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• The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare
  

  javascript networking rust web
  

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• bubbletea-rs: A rust implementation of Bubbletea
  

  rust
  

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• RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
  

  programming
  

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• nitro: a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  

  unix
  

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• To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
  

  practices
  

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• Optimizing our way through Metroid
  

  games testing
  

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• Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
  

  distributed
  

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• Retry Loop Retry
  

  zig
  

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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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