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

• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
  

  culture
  

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• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
  

  css web
  

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• UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah
  

  historical unix
  

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• Rust’s Block Pattern
  

  rust
  

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• Pedagogy Recommendations
  

  education
  

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• What do people love about Rust?
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Transparent Keyserver
  

  cryptography
  

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• 8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?)
  

  audio video art hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A love letter to Raycast
  

  mac
  

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• When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The scariest boot loader code
  

  hardware netbsd openbsd
  

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• Backing up Spotify
  

  programming
  

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

• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
  

  databases devops
  

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• how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
  

  web
  

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• WireGuard® implementation written in Rust
  

  cryptography networking rust
  

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• I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning
  

  devops security
  

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• dogalog: Prolog-based livecoding music environment
  

  art vibecoding
  

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• Help my website is too small
  

  satire web
  

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• Making the Most of Bit Arrays
  

  gleam
  

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• Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
  

  ai
  

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• Booleans don't exist in Ruby (2022)
  

  ruby
  

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• headson: head/tail for structured data - summarize/preview JSON/YAML and source code
  

  rust
  

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• Remote code execution via ND6 Router Advertisements
  

  freebsd security
  

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• Partial inlining
  

  compilers performance
  

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

• TOML 1.1.0 released
  

  programming release
  

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• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Maintaining an open source software during Hacktoberfest
  

  event practices rust
  

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• Microsoft quietly kills IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
  

  vibecoding vscode
  

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• Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right
  

  vibecoding
  

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• qjp - turn any json file into a quick TUI menu
  

  linux unix
  

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• OBS Studio Gets A New Renderer: How OBS Adopted Metal
  

  performance
  

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• Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
  

  devops
  

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• Please Just Try HTMX
  

  rant web
  

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• What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
  

  databases
  

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• Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• Hardware-Attested Nix Builds
  

  hardware nix security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?
  

  law networking person
  

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• Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
  

  security
  

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• The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork
  

  art historical
  

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• Opus 1.6 Released
  

  release
  

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• vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting
  

  linux
  

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• File d'attente - file-based job queue tool
  

  show go linux unix
  

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• Odin's Most Misunderstood Feature: `context`
  

  plt programming
  

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• How Twitter is (probably) crawling the Internet for AI
  

  networking vibecoding
  

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• A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures
  

  programming
  

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• Keeping secrets, or (less than two weeks ago)
  

  privacy
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.18
  

  linux mac
  

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• Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
  

  linux rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• i'm just having fun
  

  art person
  

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• "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
  

  security
  

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• November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++
  

  show c++ rust
  

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• Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git (2024)
  

  rust vcs
  

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• D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
  

  linux rant
  

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• "Are you the one?" is free money
  

  math
  

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• No Graphics API
  

  graphics
  

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• TLA+ modeling tips
  

  distributed formalmethods
  

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• Rust GCC backend: Why and how
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Torvalds On Linux Security Modules
  

  linux security
  

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• ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
  

  python release
  

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