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 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 39C3: To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
  

  security
  

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• Replacing JS with just HTML
  

  web
  

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• Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)
  

  cryptography release
  

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• On LLMs in programming
  

  vibecoding
  

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• gpg.fail
  

  video cryptography security
  

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• Goodbye Sass
  

  web
  

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• The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• You can't design software you don't work on
  

  practices
  

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• CVE-2025-14847: MongoBleed
  

  databases security
  

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• Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Easel Turns One! One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
  

  clojure editors
  

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• MongoBleed explained simply
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

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• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

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• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

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• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

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• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

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• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

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• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

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• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

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• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

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• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

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• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

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• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

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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 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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