The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Curl removes all calls to strcpy
  

  c practices
  

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• loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
  

  linux windows
  

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• FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
  

  freebsd networking
  

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• The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
  

  web
  

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• Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Git's HTTP server side design does not scale
  

  devops
  

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• How to Ruin All of Package Management
  

  practices security
  

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• Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word
  

  plt
  

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• Glamorous Christmas: Bringing Charm to Ruby
  

  go ruby
  

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• Replacing python-dateutil to remove six
  

  python
  

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• 1ML for non-specialists: introduction
  

  plt
  

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• Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse
  

  linux systemd
  

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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 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 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`
  

  browsers security web
  

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• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
  

  design mac
  

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• potential security breach in syncthing-fork
  

  android security
  

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• Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness
  

  concatenative programming
  

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• One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
  

  hardware historical unix
  

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• F35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards
  

  pdf c++
  

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• The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to
  

  culture web
  

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• Practical guide to XHTML (2021)
  

  web
  

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• From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Nova Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• 150.000 nodes in a Virtual DOM? No problem
  

  video web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Using LLMs at Oxide
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Use Python for Scripting
  

  python
  

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• Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)
  

  c compilers rust
  

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• Vanilla CSS is all you need
  

  css
  

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• FreeBSD 15: Why You’ll Want It
  

  freebsd
  

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• Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
  

  browsers web
  

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• It Is Worth It To Optimize Images For Your Site
  

  web
  

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• What I learnt about making websites by reading two thousand web pages
  

  web
  

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• When square pixels aren’t square
  

  web
  

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• The Path to Mojo 1.0
  

  plt
  

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• The Gerrit code review iceberg
  

  osdev
  

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• How to make a macOS screen saver
  

  mac
  

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