The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How uv got so fast
  

  performance
  

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• TIL: serde's borrowing can be treacherous
  

  rust
  

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• Are Two Heads Better Than One?
  

  math
  

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• Writing an NES emulator in Haskell
  

  haskell retrocomputing
  

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• I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
  

  culture hardware
  

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• Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
  

  security
  

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• Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
  

  performance python
  

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• When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
  

  hardware openbsd
  

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• One formula that demystifies 3D graphics
  

  video education graphics
  

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• The Algebra of Loans in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Ancient Greek geometry
  

  design games math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your favorite pieces of technical writing?
  

  ask meta
  

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• I'm returning my Framework 16
  

  hardware
  

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• They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)
  

  historical mac
  

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• cpu: cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command
  

  go osdev
  

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• An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• folder.zone: Share end-to-end encrypted folders live
  

  show cryptography web
  

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• Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
  

  c unix
  

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• dirlock
  

  linux
  

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• Reproducing the NixOS 25.11 Minimal Installation ISO
  

  nix
  

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• Vigil - A clean, fast build watcher for Zig (inspired by Bacon for Rust)
  

  show zig
  

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• The wonder of MSBuild
  

  dotnet
  

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• How and why I moved from Apple Services to my own server
  

  linux
  

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

• The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc
  

  show web
  

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• I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater
  

  mac security
  

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• What's "new" in Miri (and also, there's a Miri paper!)
  

  rust
  

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• mquickjs: Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine
  

  javascript
  

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• FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update
  

  freebsd
  

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• Email Simplicity vs Decentralized Chat
  

  ask email networking
  

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• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
  

  databases osdev
  

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• From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality in Lean 4
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• The Linux kernel is just a program
  

  go linux
  

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• Are we Loong yet?
  

  hardware
  

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• Introducing Open Forms
  

  release
  

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• Proposed Rust kernel extensions in place of eBPF
  

  linux rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

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• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

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• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

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• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

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• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

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• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

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• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

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• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

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• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

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• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

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• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

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• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

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