The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I canceled my programming book deal
  

  person
  

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• corroded: Illegal rust
  

  rust satire
  

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• One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
  

  finance python
  

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• How do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services?
  

  ask devops
  

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• Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
  

  historical unix
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• 2025: The year in LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released
  

  c release
  

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• Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
  

  c++
  

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• Statically Linking PipeWire
  

  linux
  

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• Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole
  

  javascript performance
  

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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 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 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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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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