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 November 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2"
  

  debugging games
  

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• Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and upwards
  

  vcs
  

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• Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices
  

  games graphics linux performance
  

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• Reverse Engineering the Miele Diagnostic Interface
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Undo, Redo, and the Command Pattern
  

  practices programming
  

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• Go's runtime may someday start explicitly freeing some internal memory
  

  go
  

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• Think you can’t interpose static binaries with LD_PRELOAD? Think again
  

  programming
  

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• Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL
  

  networking
  

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• Move Expressions
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch
  

  assembly
  

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• Why (pure) functional programming matters
  

  video education
  

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• There's always going to be a way to not code error handling
  

  plt rust
  

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

• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
  

  networking rust
  

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• What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
  

  education practices
  

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• Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit
  

  linux
  

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• Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
  

  freebsd illumos linux netbsd openbsd
  

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• The lost cause of the Lisp machines
  

  hardware lisp retrocomputing
  

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• A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default
  

  javascript
  

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• My First Fifteen Compilers
  

  compilers
  

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• Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
  

  culture hardware practices
  

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• WhatsApp Census
  

  pdf security
  

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• An actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5
  

  erlang ml
  

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• What Killed Perl?
  

  perl
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CHERIoT 1.0 Released
  

  hardware security
  

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• I ****ing hate Science (2021)
  

  science
  

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• a11y.css
  

  a11y web
  

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• Don't give Postgres too much memory
  

  databases performance
  

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• Skeena Indigenous Typeface
  

  design
  

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• "Why don't you use dependent types?"
  

  formalmethods
  

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• AWK technical notes (2023)
  

  plt
  

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• Using Assisted-by commit footers instead of banning AI tools
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Control structures in programming languages
  

  education ml
  

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• Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres
  

  programming
  

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• State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
  

  a11y
  

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• RDSEED Failure on AMD “Zen 5” Processors
  

  security
  

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

• Leaving the Freedesktop.org community
  

  culture person
  

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• Tag proposal: conflicts
  

  meta
  

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• Libera Chat receives legal advice that the Online Safety Act does not apply to them
  

  law
  

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• NewPipe is turning 10
  

  android historical privacy reversing
  

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• Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
  

  android swift
  

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• Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should (2015)
  

  education
  

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• Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
  

  practices programming
  

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• A Vision for Future Low-Level Languages
  

  plt
  

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• Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012)
  

  graphics
  

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• Rolling Our Own S3
  

  scaling
  

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• Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)
  

  assembly
  

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• Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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