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
  

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

  show c++ rust
  

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

  rust vcs
  

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

• My gift to the rustdoc team
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
  

  cryptography
  

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• Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
  

  unix
  

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• Let's write a toy UI library
  

  programming
  

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• Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed
  

  reversing
  

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• Rust's v0 mangling scheme in a nutshell
  

  rust
  

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• "Careless Whisper" side-channel attack affects WhatsApp and Signal
  

  security
  

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• L5: A Processing Library in Lua for Interactive Artwork
  

  graphics lua
  

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• Advent of Swift
  

  swift
  

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• Tier list of Linux security mechanisms (2024)
  

  linux security
  

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• ClickHaskell 1.0.0 is out
  

  haskell release
  

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• 30 Years of <br> Tags
  

  historical web
  

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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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