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 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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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 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 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging
  

  hardware
  

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• Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
  

  plt zig
  

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• Progress on TypeScript 7 - December 2025
  

  compilers
  

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• Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
  

  release
  

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• ACME Challenge for Persistent DNS TXT Record Validation
  

  security
  

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• EmacsConf 2025
  

  emacs event
  

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• How should we peer review software?
  

  practices science
  

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• It's Not Always ICache (2021)
  

  assembly performance
  

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• Web-based markdown editor with no AI
  

  show design
  

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• Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types
  

  elixir plt
  

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• Addressing the adding situation
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in nix
  

  show nix
  

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