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 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 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 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator
  

  math
  

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• Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
  

  web
  

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• Oils 0.37.0 - Alpine Linux, YSH, and mycpp
  

  release unix
  

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• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
  

  linux
  

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• Being a SysAdmin is hard
  

  devops networking
  

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• Building smaller Docker images faster
  

  devops performance
  

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• Google’s code review practices
  

  practices
  

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• Cosmic Desktop is a fantastic first draft
  

  video linux
  

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• Freeing a Xiaomi Humidifier from the Cloud
  

  hardware
  

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• Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
  

  security unix
  

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• Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
  

  programming rant
  

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• Pop goes the...population count?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
  

  linux rust
  

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• How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
  

  ai visualization
  

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• New tag suggestion: "genai-assisted"
  

  meta
  

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• Stop Breaking TLS
  

  rant security
  

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• You Don't Need an ORM
  

  video databases gleam
  

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• My favourite small hash table
  

  c
  

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• Size of Life
  

  art science
  

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• Do Not Optimize Away
  

  performance
  

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• Gin is a very bad software library
  

  go rant web
  

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• Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
  

  compilers
  

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• Linux kernel version numbers
  

  linux
  

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• Maybe we don't need a server
  

  privacy
  

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