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 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Tag proposal: decentralization
  

  meta
  

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• Ruby's website got an overhaul
  

  design ruby
  

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• Go feature: Modernized go fix
  

  go
  

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• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
  

  networking
  

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• The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed
  

  devops networking
  

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• How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
  

  web
  

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• dumbphone journey -- eight month update
  

  philosophy privacy
  

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• romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for various processors
  

  concatenative
  

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• Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types
  

  plt
  

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• ARIN IPv4 misissue incident
  

  devops networking
  

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• Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
  

  go
  

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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 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator
  

  math
  

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• Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
  

  web
  

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• Oils 0.37.0 - Alpine Linux, YSH, and mycpp
  

  release unix
  

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• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
  

  linux
  

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• Being a SysAdmin is hard
  

  devops networking
  

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• Building smaller Docker images faster
  

  devops performance
  

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• Google’s code review practices
  

  practices
  

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• Cosmic Desktop is a fantastic first draft
  

  video linux
  

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• Freeing a Xiaomi Humidifier from the Cloud
  

  hardware
  

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• Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
  

  security unix
  

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• Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
  

  programming rant
  

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• Pop goes the...population count?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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