The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What an unprocessed photo looks like
  

  graphics
  

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• Parsing Advances
  

  plt
  

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• LLMs Are Not Fun
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Second Great Error Model Convergence
  

  plt programming
  

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• My First Meshtastic Network
  

  hardware
  

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• You can make up HTML tags
  

  a11y web
  

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• Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody
  

  performance scaling
  

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• Garbage collection in Rust got a little better
  

  rust
  

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• Static Allocation with Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Huge binaries
  

  assembly
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Rust Errors Without Dependencies
  

  rust
  

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

• Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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• Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
  

  osdev release
  

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• pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken
  

  vcs
  

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• Play the Monty Hall game
  

  games math
  

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• 39C3: Power Cycles Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• This PNG will show different version if you open it in Chrome than in Safari
  

  graphics
  

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• Show: Twine - A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems
  

  show elixir
  

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• Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly
  

  devops linux nix systemd
  

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• QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop
  

  osdev
  

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• From Intent to Proof: Dafny Verification for Web Apps
  

  formalmethods
  

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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 November 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Self-hosting my photos with Immich
  

  linux
  

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• bfs: A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command
  

  c unix
  

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• Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
  

  games plt
  

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• Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?
  

  math
  

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• No More Self-Censorship
  

  culture practices
  

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• A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013)
  

  cryptography
  

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• Tiny TPU
  

  ai
  

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• A million ways to die from a data race in Go
  

  go
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
  

  mac retrocomputing
  

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• Schubfach: The smallest state-of-the-art double-to-string implementation
  

  c++ math
  

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• Airbus issues major A320 recall due to software issue
  

  programming
  

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