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 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go proposal: Secret mode
  

  go
  

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• Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream
  

  ai formalmethods
  

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• Zig asserts are not C asserts
  

  zig
  

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• Factor 0.101 now available
  

  concatenative
  

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• Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life
  

  devops practices
  

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• Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries
  

  practices python
  

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• why i think jj-vcs is worth your time
  

  vcs
  

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• Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure
  

  linux security
  

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• 39C3 Fahrplan 2025
  

  event
  

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• Metacode: The new standard for machine-readable comments for Python
  

  python
  

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• The world needs social sovereignty
  

  web
  

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• Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS
  

  cryptography
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
  

  practices
  

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• Super-flat ASTs
  

  compilers performance
  

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• SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
  

  security web
  

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• PGlite - Embeddable Postgres
  

  databases wasm
  

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• SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 released
  

  release
  

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• Teaching an LLM a Niche Diagraming Language
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Alpine Linux 3.23.0 Released: apk-tools v3, linux-stable replaces linux-edge
  

  linux
  

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• Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
  

  javascript security
  

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• Ferrocene 25.11.0 now available
  

  release rust
  

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• Local-first is not offline-first
  

  distributed web
  

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• Marathon OS: A gesture-based mobile shell and Linux system inspired by BB10
  

  linux mobile
  

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• Django 6.0 released
  

  python web
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gitmal - a static pages generator for Git repos
  

  go release
  

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• Go proposal: Type-safe error checking
  

  go
  

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• Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
  

  practices security
  

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• FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement
  

  freebsd
  

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• LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Constructing The Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine
  

  cryptography
  

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• New AI slop signal: code blocks with weird indentation
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Off-grid Boat Communications with Meshtastic
  

  hardware
  

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• zmx: session persistence for terminal processes
  

  show zig
  

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• Punycode: My New Favorite Algorithm
  

  browsers networking web
  

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• In defense of lock poisoning in Rust
  

  rust
  

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