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 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• what is a build system, anyway?
  

  programming
  

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• Build Systems A La Carte (2018)
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024)
  

  editors
  

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• Rats Play Doom
  

  games
  

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• Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
  

  compilers
  

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• icl: Interactive Common Lisp: an enhanced REPL
  

  lisp
  

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• A distraction-free writing environment
  

  editors
  

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• Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags
  

  javascript
  

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• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Using nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor
  

  editors
  

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• The <time> element should actually do something
  

  a11y web
  

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• Indices point between elements (2015)
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?
  

  performance rant
  

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• I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
  

  gleam programming
  

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• The state of the kernel Rust experiment
  

  linux rust
  

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• VACUUM Is a Lie: About Your Indexes
  

  databases
  

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• YOCaml a framework used to describe static site generator
  

  ml web
  

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• 50 years of proof assistants
  

  compsci historical
  

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• The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System
  

  hardware
  

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• The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral (2022)
  

  art
  

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• Concrete syntax matters, actually
  

  video plt
  

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• Django: what’s new in 6.0
  

  python
  

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• I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one
  

  javascript
  

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• async dns
  

  c networking
  

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

• Announcing Rust 1.92.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
  

  linux
  

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• The Cost Of a Closure in C
  

  c
  

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• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• CDKTF has been deprecated
  

  devops
  

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• Compressing embedded files in Go
  

  go
  

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• Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
  

  distributed
  

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• Using edge detection to preserve significant features while downsampling
  

  graphics javascript programming
  

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• Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  

  lisp
  

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• Installing Every NixOS Package
  

  nix
  

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• Fish Alpinism
  

  art openbsd
  

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• Litestream VFS
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• jujutsu v0.36.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
  

  performance rust
  

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• Fairphone open-sources Fairphone 5 and 6 software, and Moments switch
  

  android
  

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• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
  

  go rust zig
  

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• ][ Hello blog
  

  show go
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Aks
  

  person
  

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• Typewriter plotters
  

  hardware historical
  

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• Why ed(1)?
  

  editors
  

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• bcachefs 1.33.0 - reconcile
  

  linux release
  

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• APL for Plan9
  

  apl
  

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• JavaScript Announced 30 Years Ago
  

  historical javascript
  

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• Golang’s Big Miss on Memory Arenas
  

  go
  

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