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 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 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
  

  culture
  

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• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
  

  css web
  

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• UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah
  

  historical unix
  

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• Rust’s Block Pattern
  

  rust
  

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• Pedagogy Recommendations
  

  education
  

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• What do people love about Rust?
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Transparent Keyserver
  

  cryptography
  

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• 8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?)
  

  audio video art hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A love letter to Raycast
  

  mac
  

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• When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The scariest boot loader code
  

  hardware netbsd openbsd
  

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• Backing up Spotify
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Self-hosting my photos with Immich
  

  linux
  

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• bfs: A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command
  

  c unix
  

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• Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
  

  games plt
  

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• Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?
  

  math
  

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• No More Self-Censorship
  

  culture practices
  

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• A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013)
  

  cryptography
  

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• Tiny TPU
  

  ai
  

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• A million ways to die from a data race in Go
  

  go
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
  

  mac retrocomputing
  

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• Schubfach: The smallest state-of-the-art double-to-string implementation
  

  c++ math
  

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• Airbus issues major A320 recall due to software issue
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
  

  networking rust
  

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• What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
  

  education practices
  

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• Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit
  

  linux
  

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• Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
  

  freebsd illumos linux netbsd openbsd
  

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• The lost cause of the Lisp machines
  

  hardware lisp retrocomputing
  

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• A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default
  

  javascript
  

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• My First Fifteen Compilers
  

  compilers
  

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• Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
  

  culture hardware practices
  

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• WhatsApp Census
  

  pdf security
  

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• An actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5
  

  erlang ml
  

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• What Killed Perl?
  

  perl
  

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